Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

But Ma Liang knew the history of the intelligence community, especially the history of the intelligence community during World War II, very well.

Many classic cases were even used as courses by instructors, allowing new students such as Ma Liang to conduct in-depth research.

In order to write the paper, Ma Liang and others looked up countless top-secret materials from World War II.

This set of secret books, designed independently by Xiao Ri Zi with all the efforts of the whole country, is said to be impossible to decipher, the Purple Code.

The actual level of confidentiality is not very high, and it was successfully cracked by the US Army as early as 39.

The United States has long been monitoring the communications between the Chinese Embassy in the United States and China's homeland. It can be said that China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is transparent to the United States.

Even the Military Intelligence Bureau's Telecommunications Department successfully cracked the Purple Code in 1941. This is also the origin of the rumor that the Military Intelligence Bureau inferred from the intelligence it received that Xiao Rizi was going to attack Pearl Harbor and issued an early warning.

"You're going to be cracked in 39 years anyway, so it's no big deal to crack it a year early. Why not let me make some money?"

Ma Liang was copying the Purple Secret code book onto the computer while talking to himself.

As an agent, when he was short of money, Ma Liang naturally thought of selling information, especially information about his daily life, without any psychological pressure at all.

After copying the code book, Ma Liang immediately put away his walkie-talkie and notebook.

Although turning off the phone will cause some information to not be received and you will lose a lot of intelligence.

However, Ma Liang would never dare to leave these things alone at home without a stable and safe environment and let him go out alone.

For the sake of confidentiality, some secrets have to be sacrificed now.

Since Ma Liang's disguised identity is a writer who writes articles for newspapers, he can go out at any time.

This is also the reason why Ma Liang chose this profession. Otherwise, if he really found a job where he had to go to work every day and had no private time, many things would not be possible.

You can't ask for leave every other day, right?

After leaving the house, Ma Liang found a secluded place to release his Ford car from the space, put on a new license plate, changed his clothes, and drove out of Shanghai.

After driving for nearly an hour, Ma Liang finally arrived at a small town. He spent three dollars to buy some candy and found three children in a private school to recopy his handwritten code book.

There were no printers in those days, only typewriters, which Ma Liang didn't know how to use.

Writing by hand can easily expose your handwriting, which is a mistake a professional agent cannot make.

For this purpose, Ma Liang ran out of the city to find the code book, shuffled the order, and divided it among the three children to copy.

"Uncle, what is this? It's numbers and Chinese characters, and the handwriting is so ugly!"

"That's right. If our handwriting is so ugly, Master Wang will spank our hands."

The innocent questions asked by the children made Ma Liang, the shameless agent, feel a little embarrassed, because he was not the only one whose handwriting was ugly.

Not to mention how many things need to be handwritten now, let’s just talk about Ma Liang’s attempt to hide his nationality.

English is used most of the time. Chinese characters are basically not used in Japanese, so the handwriting is naturally a little ugly.

Ma Liang swore, just a little bit.

I copied it three times in a row.

After completing the copying of the code book, Ma Liang drove back to Shanghai and went directly into the British and American Concession.

After finding a hidden place to put the Ford car into the space, Ma Liang changed into a new vest.

Put on a pair of high-heeled riding boots, thicken the vest underneath, put on leather gloves, and then put on a pair of large sunglasses.

Ma Liang, who was originally only 1 meters tall and of medium build, instantly turned into a 75-meter tall, bearded, burly man.

After checking the voice changer in his throat, Ma Liang went directly to the American Consulate in Shanghai and said to the guard on duty at the door in English with an American accent:

"I'll look for the second secretary of your consulate, Lieutenant Colonel Kane! Just tell him I have something to discuss with him."

The guard glanced at Ma Liang and did not look down on him just because he was a stranger.

On the contrary, after hearing Ma Liang accurately report the words "Second Secretary" and "Lieutenant Colonel Kane", he very politely invited Ma Liang into a quiet reception room.

"Please take a rest. Mr. Kane will be here soon."

The reason for this is that the second secretary of the consulate, Kane, is an American intelligence officer.

Intelligence agents can be divided into public intelligence personnel and secret intelligence personnel according to their identity.

Diplomatic agencies are often tasked with gathering intelligence, and can basically be considered half an intelligence agency.

In diplomatic missions abroad, there are intelligence officers who use diplomatic identities as cover, and even many intelligence officers' identities are semi-public.

And at least one person must fully disclose his or her identity to the host country.

The reason why at least one person needs to disclose his identity to the host country is because this intelligence officer is called a Declared Officer.

This means an intelligence officer whose identity is public, and his role is to serve as a liaison officer between the intelligence agencies of his own country and the intelligence agencies of the host country.

Not only are friendly countries required to disclose who are the public intelligence officers in their embassies, but even hostile countries are required to disclose the identity of at least one intelligence officer to each other.

The second secretary of the American Consulate in Shanghai, named Kane, is the Declared Officer. Generally, those who can point out Kane by name are basically his colleagues in the intelligence community.

That's why the guards treated Ma Liang so politely.

After a few minutes, a blond man in a suit in his 30s with a common appearance among Europeans and Americans walked into the reception room.

Kane immediately made a basic assessment of Ma Liang in front of him.

He was wearing sunglasses indoors in broad daylight, apparently not wanting people to know his identity.

As an Asian, he is at least 6 feet tall and is most likely not Japanese, but perhaps Chinese.

Kane immediately greeted Ma Liang in Chinese, which was fairly fluent but still had an accent:

"Hello, I'm Kane, the person you're looking for. How can I help you?"

Ma Liang secretly laughed in his heart. With this level of foreign language proficiency, you would at least be given a failing grade in modern times.

"Let me be frank. I have some top-secret information that I want to sell to you. I wonder if you are interested?"

Ma Liang answered in fluent English, but he deliberately mixed up the "r" and "l" sounds in English.

"So it's just a casual day, why are you being so mysterious! I'll just play along with you."

As an intelligence officer who frequently participated in diplomatic activities, Kane recognized Ma Liang's identity as a "Japanese" from the strange pronunciation of several of his words.

Because Japanese has been closed to the outside world for a long time and has not exchanged with other language systems, the Japanese pronunciation system is very simple compared to English.

Therefore, Japanese people all have a strong and strange accent when speaking English, which can be basically heard as soon as they open their mouths. As Kane who deals with Japanese people more often, there is no way he cannot tell it apart.