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Many major political events in modern American history, such as the 'Watergate Incident', 'Zipper Gate', 'Prism Gate', etc., are all inextricably linked to surveillance.

Monitoring others and gaining their privacy and handle actually means a kind of power.

The reason why no one dared to shake Edgar Hoover's position as FBI director during his 40-year career is that no one is sure that if he takes the lead, will he have a relationship with him the next day? Related scandals came to light.

The current president of the United States, George Bush, chose the position of director of the CIA in his political career, which is definitely a very sophisticated move.

As for Simon.

From the wiretapping incident at the Plaza Hotel a few years ago, it can be seen that the outside world has a strong curiosity about him, a super rich man who suddenly rose like a comet.

Because there are more than a dozen people's life experiences in his mind, Simon's strict protection of his personal privacy in recent years is definitely not unfounded.

Not just politicians, the federal government also monitors the super rich in the country.

The reason is actually very simple.

In a capitalist society, money means power, and the rich don't just hold money. A media tycoon like Simon also holds a media network that can influence the direction of news and public opinion.

If Simon's privacy can be manipulated, or if it is not an outsider's handle, then, in many cases, politicians can coerce him to act according to his wishes.

There are actually precedents for this kind of thing.

The most classic is probably Howard Hughes, who is also quite legendary in Hollywood.

The super rich who died more than ten years ago has actually been under the secret surveillance of the federal government since his fortune.

According to the information that has been made public over the years, the FBI's surveillance data on Howard Hughes, including audio recordings, photos, personal letters, etc., took up an entire room.

In the early 50s, in order to warn Hughes to cooperate with him on a congressional bill, Edgar Hoover sent someone to send Hughes all the surveillance data for three years to the other party, and also attached a handwritten "From Hoover Tribute' card.

The data includes wiretapped recordings of Howard Hughes in all the apartments on the east and west coasts of the United States and the hotel room where he stayed for three years, and almost every day's schedule information in detail. Every Hollywood actress Hughes dated during the three years also It has been listed out, it can be said to be meticulous.

Edgar Hoover told Hughes in this way, we know your every move, be careful!

Howard Hughes did not leave his private jet for almost a moment in his later years, and the last person died alone. Although the public reason was the obsessive-compulsive disorder of the super rich man, it is hard to say whether he completely lost his sense of security due to government surveillance for the sake.

However, despite being secretly monitored by the government for a long time, Howard Hughes himself is doing similar things.

This can be seen if someone has watched "The Aviator".

Howard Hughes regarded all his countless lovers as personal property, and dispatched countless men to monitor the every word and deed of these canaries.

What's more embarrassing is that because of this long-term monitoring, the lonely canary raised by Hughes has rolled into bed more than once with the monitor he sent for a long time.

Simon's miraculous rise has accumulated tens of billions of dollars of wealth in just a few years, and this number continues to increase rapidly.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal to arouse some people's strong curiosity and other thoughts about him.

It was the leader of an investigation team named Martin Dinham who found someone monitoring Simon.

This is the candidate that the Johnston family scouted from Australia.

A true professional agent.

This once again proves the background of the Johnston family. Simon now has tens of billions of dollars, but it is impossible to find the people he needs from the federal authorities.

Even if he found it, he didn't dare to use it with confidence.

After Simon had a similar idea, the old man personally helped to touch 11 people and send them over. They were divided into two groups, five people in one group and six people in one group.

Of course, the couple paid a lot of money for this.

A family of 11 people can almost be regarded as being supported by the Westeros system.

In fact, this is exactly what Simon fancy.

Those who have concerns are less likely to betray after all, so Simon's original suggestion was to find someone with a family.

As long as these people are really 'worth their money', Simon doesn't mind spending millions every year.

You must know that secret agents seem mysterious to ordinary people, but they are only a profession after all. These people can usually get an annual salary of tens of thousands of dollars equivalent to some ordinary white-collar workers, and at most they can enjoy special benefits from the government.

Simon's base salary of $20 is absolutely unmatched by government agents.

Moreover, all family expenses of these people, including medical care and education, are fully covered by Westeros Corporation.

After one year of employment and passing the test, the whole family can also choose to immigrate to the United States. The Westeros system will pay a one-time settlement fee of 100 million US dollars. When the children become adults, they can also directly choose the designated first-class universities in Australia or the United States. The number of places will be determined by Westeros Luo company is responsible for it.

On top of that, each of these individuals will receive a one-time bonus of $20 million after the 500-year tenure, and subsequent retirement benefits.

That's right.

Those who want to join must sign a 20-year work contract.

Simon really believes in the theory that "people are not as good as they are". Of course, the vases around him must be replaced frequently. For these special service teams around him, it is obvious that the longer they work, the more reliable they will be. After life, even yourself is often not easy to change.

So, when given enough time, there is usually something called 'loyalty' that develops as well.

Martin Dinham led his team of five to complete the investigation of the Igret Portal hacker attack some time ago, and reported his investigation results to Janet. After leaving Cape Dume Manor, he unexpectedly noticed that someone was following him .

Neither Simon nor Janet wanted the investigation team they owned to be discovered by others, and Martin Dinham had received similar orders.

Realizing that he was being targeted, Martin Dinham quietly arranged for his colleagues to carry out a counter-stalking, and finally found out that it was a 30-year-old man named Frank Blaze.

According to the information collected later, Frank Blaze, 33 years old, Dinham specifically marked that this age may be false, Frank Blaze immigrated to the United States from the UK as a student 13 years ago, and now he is an ordinary to somewhat downcast Plumber, single, no bad habits.

After the members of the investigation team sneaked into the other party's residence, they quickly found direct evidence and installed bugs.

The current investigation is still ongoing, and two other 'colleagues' of Frank Blaze have been discovered.

However, Martin Dinham has already given a result in the report. This group of people has no malicious intentions towards Simon, and the monitoring of him is also very low, which obviously gives people a feeling of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days .

"For the time being, only three people have been found, besides Frank Blaze, and Luther Randolph, who is publicly known as a thug in a dance hall in Compton, and Johnny Pist, a driver for a moving company in Koreatown, including Frank Blaze, all three of them have a not too fixed occupation, they are all immigrants, and their characteristics are very obvious. Although Johnny Pistor is married, this is probably just a cover, a long-term latent agent Choosing a marriage is a very common thing. Judging from the current investigation data, the three of them should be just pawns, and we are still tracking down the line. In addition, they also give me a feeling of... um, 'abandoned children'. "

Burbank, in an unassuming one-story office in Universal Studios.

Listening to Martin Dinham's introduction, Simon said, "Abandoned? So, they are not at the federal government level?"

If it is the FBI, it is obviously impossible to become an abandoned child.

Since Martin Dinham judged that the three were very professional agents rather than ordinary informants, unless they were overseas spies, they would not be abandoned.

Martin Dinham nodded and said: "I guess, the three people are either from the Stasi, or they are from the KGB. East and West Germany merged, and the Stasi has been disbanded, but this spy network has not disappeared. The head of the Stasi’s Foreign Intelligence Agency applied for political asylum to the Australian government three months ago, because the West German government required him to hand over the Stasi’s list of foreign cyber spies before he could be granted an amnesty. The KGB is also a possibility, The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse, and the country's current economic situation is very bad, and it simply does not have the strength to support a huge overseas spy network."

Simon thought for a while, and said, "Judging from the surnames of the three people, the possibility of Stasi's abandonment should be higher."

Martin Dinham shook his head: "The name is just a code name, it won't reveal anything."

Simon asked again: "So, do they have Slavic characteristics?"

"Luther Randolph should have some Eastern European ancestry," Martin Dinham said, "However, this still doesn't explain anything."

Hearing what the middle-aged man said, Simon suddenly asked, "Martin, is your name real?"

Martin Dinham shook his head directly, and said with a smile: "Fake, my real surname is Bedford. It's just that I'm used to the surname Dinham, which is also on many passports, so I haven't changed it this time."

Simon also smiled and said, "A very classic surname."

Regardless of the United Kingdom, the United States or Australia, there are many regional towns named after 'Bedford', and this alone shows the universality of this standard British surname.

Since these people are going to be used, Simon has naturally investigated their details, so he knows Martin Dinham's real surname and more information about the other party.

Martin Dinham probably knew this too, so he acted very calmly.

Simon Westeros has given them enough that Martin Dinham doesn't take for granted.

After interjecting a few digressions, Martin Dinham continued: "So, boss, what should we do next?"

Simon didn't answer, but asked, "Besides this group of teams, do you think there is anyone else?"

Martin Dinham shook his head and said, "Well, I don't know. In the past few days, we only found three people, Frank Blaze, but this team hasn't found all of them yet."

Simon thought for a moment, and said: "In this case, you are temporarily responsible for investigating Frank Blaze and others. I want to know everything about them. As for the others, I will arrange someone else."

Martin Dunham didn't know that Simon had other people in his hands.

However, some things are simply taken for granted, and it would be too shabby for the super rich to have only their group in their pockets.

Without asking any more questions, the two continued to talk about some details, and Martin Dinham took his leave.

Simon continued to stay in this old-fashioned bungalow office in Universal Studios, slowly flipping through a few scripts sent by Ella Deutschman, while thinking about the next thing.

In recent years, Simon only pays attention to his private residence not being invaded by outsiders, but ignores other aspects of monitoring.

Surveillance of the ultra-rich is primarily about gaining their inhumane privacy.

Simon, a rapidly rising super rich man, may have a big secret in the eyes of many people.

In addition to catching him, some people probably hope to get this big secret that can make them rich in just a few years.In just a few years, tens of billions of dollars of wealth, probably few people can not be tempted by it.

Therefore, Simon simply did not believe that only such a poor group of people surrounded him.

The security measures such as anti-eavesdropping that they think are very careful may not be so airtight.

And some people around me.

Beautiful vases.

The girls around her were all found by Janet through proactively calling and looking for information, and she did not passively accept resumes, which largely avoided being taken advantage of.

But even if the girls were okay at first, it's inevitable that they still aren't.

Simon asked himself to give them enough salary and treatment, but people's hearts have always been greedy.

Perhaps this should be investigated as well.

Simon didn't want to turn himself into a suspicious person, but he didn't think this kind of suspicion was unfounded at all.

Investigate whether there are other surveillance teams around, and reorganize the vases around him. To complete these, just another six-member team besides Martin Dinam is obviously not enough.

Thinking about it this way, Simon remembered that Sophia had also found a group of people in Europe. It was said that they were retired agents from the Stasi. He had already read the background investigation work report made by the other party for the European maid team before. From the professionalism and detail of those reports To a certain extent, the abilities of the people Sophia found are not bad, and maybe two more groups of people can be transferred here.

As for finding a team from the United States.

Simon hadn't thought about it at all.

He had cooperated with some professional detective companies before, and now, since he wanted to set up his own intelligence network, Simon instinctively felt that it was best not to find candidates from North America.

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Speaking carefully, Simon is actually not too worried about prying eyes from the outside world.

Even if the huge initial capital accumulation obtained through the financial market several times in a row, the operation is within the scope of the rules.

As for Simon's biggest secret, even the closest people around him, he never revealed it.Want to figure this out, unless someone can drill into his head.

Obviously no one can do that.

Therefore, if one had to find an explanation for the various excellences that Simon has shown in these years, it can only be described as extraordinary talent.

Simon is indeed 'gifted'.

However, although there is no handle that can be controlled and threatened, Simon absolutely does not want to be monitored by others, and no one should be willing to do so.

I quietly arranged to find the monitors around me, and the time also entered September of 1991.

After the meeting with Al Gore, the Westeros system began to mobilize resources to promote the "Information Superhighway Act".

It's not just private political lobbying. In order to create momentum for Cisco's listing on September 9, fueled by the Westeros system, there are more and more discussions about the Internet in various media channels in North America.

On September 9st, The New York Times published a feature article titled 'The Coming Internet Era', the headline on the front page, and the signatory was Simon himself.Subsequently, the mainstream newspapers on the east and west coasts of the United States and Eaglet Portal reprinted this article.

The article was indeed written by Simon himself, but that is not entirely true.

Last year, Simon compiled a memorandum on various aspects of the Internet industry and its future prospects to the executives of several companies such as Igret. The dozens of pages of the memo generally discussed portals, e-commerce, big data, Cloud computing and other core concepts of the Internet era in Simon's memory.

This article only captures part of the 'forecast' from the original memo.

Simon has received only a handful of exclusive interviews since his rise, not to mention publishing a signed article in a newspaper. This article first published in the New York Times has undoubtedly aroused very strong attention and discussion.

Although some media criticized Simon's article that the output value of the Internet industry will reach trillions of dollars in the next ten years, it is a kind of grandstanding with ulterior motives.However, the most direct response to this article is that in the new week of September 9, technology stocks related to the Internet industry in the U.S. stock market rose across the board.

Cisco's IPO roadshow also saw a sharp increase in the number of stock subscriptions because of Simon's signed article.

As of the end of the road show, the number of Cisco stock subscriptions has reached 5.3 million shares, which is more than 4000 times the number of 13 million new shares issued, and even twice the current total share capital of Cisco.

Unlike Sam Walton, John Kruger, and Warren Buffett, who have spent decades accumulating a wealth of wealth, Simon's personal asset accumulation speed can only be described as a miracle.

Moreover, Simon's article is definitely not aimless.

Over the past year or so, there have been too many signs that a new industry is rising rapidly.

Because the world's largest personal computer market is in an economic recession, the industry originally predicted that PC shipments in 1991 would stagnate, remaining flat at 1990 million units in 2000.