Chapter 955 Emergency

"Believe me, Your Highness the Duke, if I have news in advance, I will be the first to notify you..."

Lloyd told Barron on the phone:

"But I feel that the SEC's actions this time, the formation does not look simple..."

Barron also considered what Lloyd said. This kind of action by the SEC is very unusual.

You know, after the subprime crisis, the American stock market has just recovered - and the Federal Reserve's three consecutive quantitative easing policies since the subprime crisis are to "waterproof" and alleviate the domestic problems caused by the subprime crisis. Liquidity dried up, allowing the economy to recover.

Moreover, the financial groups investigated by the SEC this time, such as DS Capital, Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley, can be said to be the main forces that are "bullish" in the U.S. stock market this time. If viewed from this perspective, even if If there is any evidence of "illegal operations", considering the overall situation, the investigation should not be conducted at this time, which will have a negative impact on the recovering U.S. stock market...

Unless it's...

There is a strong push to investigate these companies even if it negatively affects America's recovery...

"We need more information to analyze the current situation. Mr. Trankfin, I think it's time to mobilize your contacts to deal with it."

Although Henry Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, resigned as the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States in 2009, Goldman Sachs still has many connections in the U.S. government departments. Now it is necessary for both parties to cooperate to deal with this matter.

"We will do this, Your Highness, but we also need your power..."

After hearing what Lloyd said, Barron responded:

"I am already in contact with our friends, and I will soon go to the United States to respond."

…

Northern Ireland, Beloo Castle.

In fact, the place that Barron regards as the safest place in England is not his residence in London, nor Chatsworth Manor, but Beeloo Castle - next to Beeloo Castle is the original protector. The company's training camp, after being merged into the G4S Group, became the training camp of the G4S Group, with more than 200 military personnel stationed there for a long time.

There is a prison underground in Billou Castle, which was built a long time ago. Barron's life assistant Aliya was also cared for here.

Now, new "guests" are welcomed here. The few people captured by the special operations team in London were sent here overnight and were properly "entertained".

But what made Mikhail a little annoyed was that when the special operations team raided these people in London, two of them died on the spot - not caused by the special operations team, but after realizing that they were surrounded. The two immediately committed suicide by chewing a denture containing cyanide in their mouths.

It can be said that this kind of decisiveness and cruelty is obviously not something that ordinary agents can explain.

During the subsequent interrogation of other people, Mikhail confirmed this - those arrested quickly revealed their identities as "CIA agents" and did not hide much.

This does not surprise Mikhail. Often these professional agents know very well that after being captured alive, it is almost impossible to survive all kinds of forced confessions without revealing the information - there is no extraordinary person. It is simply impossible to do this with an iron will, and there are very few such people. There are tens of thousands of overseas agents such as the CIA, many of whom are "rookies" who have not undergone long training. , how could they all be this kind of "superman"?

The information Mikhail obtained from these CIA agents was that they were assigned to come to England to cooperate with two "intelligence agents" in their activities.

The two "intelligence agents" they were talking about were the two "dead men" who committed suicide by taking poison. Their specific identities were unknown to these CIA agents.

As for the specific missions of these two dead men, these CIA agents did not know anything. The orders they received were only to assist and cover the mission of these two dead men.

The current situation is that Mikhail can only know from the surviving CIA agents that this operation involves the Duke of Devonshire, so they have been extremely careful - the other party is the Duke of England, and he does not just have a false name. It can be said that London is its base.

With only this little information, Mikhail was naturally unwilling to give in. He didn't care about the name of a CIA agent at all.

As Barron's right-hand man, Mikhail knew that these CIA agents' so-called orders from their superiors, based on the "tacit understanding" between His Royal Highness the Duke and the CIA director, there is a high probability that they did not really come from the CIA's formal instructions, but from the CIA. A private appointment by one of the powerful figures.

This can also explain the situation that the two people who are mainly responsible for the core tasks are probably not from the CIA, but dead soldiers of a certain force.

Therefore, he continued to "pressure" those CIA agents here in Billu Castle. Through some physical operations, he still got an important clue.

One of the CIA agents who was responsible for communicating directly with the two dead men suddenly remembered that he accidentally learned that the person the two dead men were meeting was with Duke Devonshire...

But the clues can only go so far. After all the means are exhausted, the "Great Memory Recovery Technique" can no longer make the CIA agent remember more things, such as who that person is...

It seems that he really doesn't know.

But the clues obtained now have made Mikhail realize the urgency of the matter.

"We have used reasonable excuses to contact the families of all the members of His Royal Highness's security team, and no abnormalities have been found..."

Since the clues point to the closest security team to His Royal Highness, according to Mikhail's analysis, the most likely reason for the other party to "turn" the other party is the safety of his family.

After all, the security team that can enter His Royal Highness has passed the most stringent background investigation, and the probability of being a "two-faced person" before has been basically ruled out...

Of course, it is not impossible to be turned simply for greed, but the probability is relatively low-after all, the benefits must match the serious consequences of betraying His Royal Highness.

Moreover, the situation is urgent now. First, we need to confirm whether the family members of the security team members are under control. This is also the fastest way to identify the "traitor"...

"I have arranged the fastest plane to go to His Royal Highness the Duke..."

Mikhail said to his deputy:

"You need to hurry up and send someone to confirm whether the family members of all security team members are safe. You must confirm it with your own eyes. It is best to leave someone to continue to pay attention..."