Chapter 819 Dangerous David

When Barron came to America this time, he had already finalized a private meeting with O'Guanhai.

What he said to Jamie Dimon and others was that he had already discovered that the CIA had been monitoring him earlier.

It was only in recent times that, in addition to Barron himself, his intelligence network also found signs that the United States was investigating some of the industries he controlled.

So this matter will also be mentioned in his meeting with O'Guanhai. Although the CIA and the FBI are managed by different departments, it is no longer the era when Edgar Hoover became the director of the FBI and could not be controlled by the president.

Now, whether it is the CIA or the FBI, they will not easily go against the will of the president. Therefore, as Barron, who has a connection with O'Guanhai, can at least restrain some of the actions of these departments by expressing dissatisfaction with him.

It is also based on the actions of the United States against Alstom in the previous life that made Barron alert.

He does not want to be the target of the United States using some "long-arm jurisdiction" clauses, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, to extract assets.

For example, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which was cited as a law to sanction Alstom.

This legal provision was first passed in 1977, prohibiting American companies from bribing all foreign companies, governments, and political parties.

Since its entry into force, the law has long been questioned by major American industry giants and is believed to put domestic companies at a disadvantage in the export market. Therefore, it was not vigorously implemented in the early stage.

In 1998, the US Congress amended the law to make it extraterritorial and also applicable to foreign companies.

As long as a company signs a cooperation agreement in US dollars, the payment occurs in the US territory, or simply sends and stores emails through servers located in the US, these are all considered "international trade tools", and the United States believes that it has the right to file a lawsuit.

This made this legal provision a tool of long-arm jurisdiction of the United States. The United States used it to plunder property for nearly 20 years. The largest companies in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom were convicted of corruption, bank crimes or sanctions violations. Billions of dollars in fines went into the U.S. Treasury. French companies alone have been extorted more than 13 billion U.S. dollars.

So this bill became a real gold mine for the U.S. Treasury.

Of course, in addition to the United States, major Western powers have similar anti-corruption laws, among which the British Anti-Bribery Act is known as the "world's most stringent anti-corruption law."

Moreover, the relevant laws of many countries were finally formulated under the promotion of the United States. As mentioned earlier, the original legal provisions were formulated for American companies when they were doing overseas business, which caused dissatisfaction among many large American companies, who believed that such strict restrictions on American companies would make these companies feel constrained in some overseas businesses and lose their competitiveness.

So later, the United States began to exert influence and demanded that other countries also introduce similar laws.

The only difference is that even if the law is the same, the final effect is different - because the United States is the only superpower, the relevant laws of other countries can only target domestic companies, but the United States can make it a long-arm jurisdiction legal clause, targeting all companies in the world, and can promote judicial hegemony on a global scale.

It is also out of fear of this situation that Barron is very cautious about the companies he controls in some areas where "gray transactions" are required, and absolutely does not allow them to be carried out through American branches or banks, giving the United States a handle for "jurisdiction".

This is also the significance of Barron's control of Colo. Now Colo's financial business can only reach Africa, but it can still provide him with a safe channel.

However, even so, Barron still did not relax his vigilance. After all, with many practices of the United States, especially their CIA, they dare to do anything - because the CIA's huge global network, even if it can get more than 30 billion US dollars in funding each year, is still not enough to maintain their overly large subordinate agencies, so in order to make extra money, they will even be involved in many illegal businesses, including but not limited to drug trafficking, human trafficking and arms trading, etc.

They even carried out these "operations" under the table without telling the top leaders of the United States.

Therefore, if the CIA really targeted him, Barron did not think that it would be enough to let them not catch any handle on the surface. They had done such frame-up before, and they were very skilled at it.

Of course, with Barron's current identity and network of relationships, the CIA would not be able to deal with him casually. If Barron was really pushed to the limit, it was not impossible for the CIA director to commit suicide by being shot eight times in the back.

After all, if the Deep State was angered, the president of the United States could have a wild imagination...

It's just that he didn't want to get to the point where both sides would be destroyed. It would be best to resolve the "misunderstanding" before things got worse.

In addition, in fact, Barron would not be so desperate for the CIA...

At the end of April this year, the then CIA Director Leon Panetta was appointed as Secretary of Defense by Obama.

His replacement was David Petraeus, who was no stranger to Barron. After all, he served as the top commander of the U.S. military in Iraq from 2007 to 2008, and before serving as CIA director. , David Petraeus also serves as the supreme commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

It can be said that he also has many "business dealings" with the Protector Military Service Company.

What’s even more interesting is that in Barron’s previous life, David Petraeus’ tenure as CIA director only lasted for more than a year before he had to resign because his extramarital affair was exposed…

Yes, some personal relationships between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell did not escape his intelligence collection...

Although he would not use it easily for such things, the premise is that both parties must maintain a friendly relationship...

I believe that David Petraeus can still make wise choices when it comes to his future.

But speaking of it, there is really a reason why David Petraeus is privately called "Dangerous David" and "Peach" by his young lover.

After all, when David was appointed as CIA director, his young lover and first wife both appeared at the scene and sat in the same row...