Chapter 1296 The whole story
A few months ago, Imai-cho, Azabu-ku, Tokyo.
A two-story building is located deep in a low street. There is only one path from the road to the building. Through the windows on the second floor, you can clearly see everything happening around you.
This is Sorge's residence in Japan. That day, he was sitting on the sofa in the living room and took out a cigarette. An ordinary-looking Japanese woman picked up a lighter and wanted to help him light it, but Sorge stopped her and put the lighter back. drawer.
As a "Yamato Nadeshiko" known for her gentleness and submissiveness, the woman was not unhappy. Instead, she struck the match and brought it to Sorge, always with a slight smile on her face.
Sorge lit the cigarette and took two puffs, then discussed with the woman softly: "Longzi, you can leave earlier today. I need to meet some old friends. I will go to your residence in the evening, is that okay?"
Longzi nodded slightly, turned around and went to the kitchen to prepare snacks and tea for the party. He didn't care about the content and members of the party at all, and behaved extremely low-key.
Not long after, a Japanese and a white man came to Sorge's home. Longzi knew their names, Miyagi and Clauson, both of whom were Sorge's friends in Japan.
One of them is a well-known painter in the upper class, and the other is a Canadian businessman who is engaged in the business of copying blueprints. His clients are all over Japan's major companies and institutions, and even government departments and military institutions.
Sorge and the other two exchanged pleasantries and then went to the study on the second floor. Longzi was about to leave after delivering the tea and snacks, but before going out, she suddenly stopped and looked curiously at the drawer with the lighter.
After a few minutes.
Clausen stood in front of the study window and watched Takako walk onto the road. He turned around and waved his hand. Miyagi immediately took out a newspaper and handed it to Sorge. There was a paragraph written on the headline of the newspaper.
"TASS authorizes the statement that the rumors that Germany intends to attack Red Russia are groundless..."
Sorge couldn't believe his eyes. Germany was about to attack Red Russia. This was the content of the telegram they sent to their superiors a few days ago. Why did it appear in the newspaper?
He finally calmed down and continued reading, only to see the newspaper read: "According to reliable information, Germany and Red Russia will unswervingly abide by the non-aggression treaty. It is a baseless rumor that Germany intends to break the treaty and attack Red Russia." ”
The newspaper slipped from Sorge's hand. He couldn't figure out how the top-secret information he and his comrades risked their lives to collect became "rumors." Could it be that Mosk was doubting their loyalty?
This thought pierced Sorge's heart like a sharp thorn, but he immediately abandoned this ridiculous idea.
If the superiors doubted them, they would not leave him in Tokyo at such a critical moment. This may be some kind of strategy or temptation from Mosk. He could only tell himself this.
Sorge regained his composure, and then thought of a more serious problem. The Japanese must have also seen the newspaper, and their intelligence team was in danger.
Only some high-level officials in Japan knew about Germany's plan to attack Red Russia. The Japanese counterintelligence agency could easily determine the range of suspects and find them one by one.
Realizing the danger he was in, Sorge was tempted to order a hibernation, but Moscow needed intelligence from Tokyo and they had to carry out their duties unwaveringly.
He looked at his deputy Miyagi and then at the telegraph operator Clawson, explained the current serious situation and asked for their opinions.
Miyagi and Clausen looked at each other and smiled, and the latter calmly replied: "Dear Davarich, we came to Japan to fight the reactionaries, just like you and I did in Shanghai. The danger is certain, But I’m ready for everything.”
"Yes, life is not a treat. Please believe in the determination of me and other Japanese comrades." Miyagi also expressed his attitude without flinching.
Sorge put aside his worries and extended his hand to the two of them: "I am honored to fight with you. When the day of victory comes, I will entertain you two with the best wine, for sure!"
"must!"
The three held hands tightly. No matter how Sorge performed in his private life, he was a brave warrior and a loyal underground party member.
When the time came to May 1941, the Sorge team sent Mosk the last intelligence before the war, clearly stating that the German offensive would be launched across the board at dawn on a certain day at the end of June 1941.
Unfortunately, this telegram still did not have the desired effect. Mosk still had doubts about the intelligence, and the defection of one person accelerated the destruction of Sorge's team.
In the month when the German-Russian war began, the head of the Red Russian NK┴VD Far East region, Selikov, swam across the Tumen River and surrendered to the Japanese army.
After learning of Selikov's identity, the Kwantung Army intelligence department was ecstatic and immediately sent a plane to transfer him to Tokyo for interrogation by the General Staff Headquarters.
During the interrogation, Selikov revealed Red Russia's military deployment in the Far East and a large amount of internal intelligence. Important information, including espionage communication codes, was handed over to the Japanese as a bargaining chip, including two top secrets.
First of all, the Northwest underground party has a mole in the Shancheng intelligence system. This mole has been active since the early 1930s and has a high status. Other circumstances are unknown for the time being. The Japanese are not very interested in this piece of information. There is no need for them to remind Yamashiro that the more fierce the underground party and the fruit party fight, the better it will be for Japan.
But the second piece of information revealed by Selikov made the interrogators at the General Staff Headquarters stand up. He said that he had heard a classmate from the Moscow headquarters say that the Red Russian military had placed many spies in high-level Japanese officials. Most of Japan's strategic intelligence comes from this group.
The Intelligence Department of the General Staff Headquarters, which had been worried about the mysterious radio station, suddenly found a treasure and couldn't wait to ask about the situation of these spies.
Shelikov only provided the opponent's leader's code name - "Ramza", and then kept his mouth shut.
This move is normal. If all the information is revealed, then Shelikov will be useless, and the captured spy who is useless will only have one fate, and that is death.
Then Selikov made a series of requests to the Japanese, and the staff headquarters did not hesitate and complied with them all. Only then did he reveal that the disguised identity of one of the spies in the Ramza team was a painter.
The newly appointed Minister of Intelligence, Kiyofuku Okamoto, had an idea and thought of the list of suspects that had been abandoned by the previous minister. There was a painter, Miyagi, in it.
Opening the file, Okamoto found records about Miyagi: a painter who often contacted the officers of the General Staff Headquarters.
The rest of the matter was simple. The Intelligence Department launched a large-scale surveillance on Miyagi. The results of the surveillance made Miyamoto and the senior staff of the General Staff Headquarters shudder. Miyagi had contacts with Ozaki, Sorge, and Hayashi Fuichiro.
Who is Ozaki? Prime Minister Konoe's advisor and secretary. He has access to a large amount of top-secret information and has good relations with many high-level officials.
Lin Fuichiro is even more complicated. His father is an imperial earl and the former chairman of the Manchuria Railway. His wife is the granddaughter of an imperial general. He is the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance, and his position is extremely sensitive.
Kiyofuku Okamoto thought twice and decided to put the main breakthrough point on Sorge. The other party had the lowest status and would not cause too much trouble even if there were errors in the investigation.
With a clear goal in mind, it didn't take long for the agents to figure out Sorge's pattern of actions, and the time was even accurate to the minute.
Early every morning, Sorge would go to the German Embassy in Japan and spend the whole day there. In the evening, he would go to the "Imperial" Hotel, and then go to the "Golden Rhine" from there. He would occasionally go to pubs, dance halls, and nightclubs for drinks. A few glasses.
The other party spent the longest time in the "Empire" Hotel, and he always sat in an armchair against the wall, sometimes chatting with others, sometimes closing his eyes to meditate.
Okamoto ordered someone to install a bug behind the wall next to the seat, but what was eavesdropped was worthless. Later, the Japanese inspected Sorge's residence and found nothing suspicious.
Not to mention the radio station, even the written materials are very sparse, and the photos taken by the camera are ordinary scenery, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
The unwilling Japanese established a long-term surveillance point to record who went to Sorge's house, how long they stayed, and what they did. They tried to find more Red Russian spies, but in the end they only found a young woman who came to clean the house regularly. room, leave when you're done.
In fact, from the day the TASS news agency published the article, Sorge stopped communicating at home. Only Longzi showed up as usual and was responsible for his food and daily life.
Kiyofuku Okamoto finally realized that ordinary investigation methods could not deal with Sorge at all, so he decided to contact the relevant personnel head-on, even if he did not hesitate to alert the snake.
All preparations were in place, and in front of the intelligence department building of the General Staff Headquarters, multiple action teams were ready to go.
Tetsuji Sudo looked at Kiyofuku Okamoto on the steps, his face flushed with excitement. He had paid too much to grow from the son of a Hokkaido farmer to an intelligence agent.
After Okamoto finished announcing the action order, Sudou yelled "Hai" with all his strength. Okamoto Kiyofuku glanced here and left with other senior intelligence officials without saying anything.
This sight made Tetsuji Suto even more excited. He was the first to rush into the car and shout, "Let's go." This son of a Hokkaido farmer wanted to make progress too much.
More than a dozen cars rushed out of the staff headquarters and headed for different destinations. There were real targets and false targets to confuse the audience.
The vehicle was running on a flat road. The spy leader in the front row took out a few envelopes and handed them to the operators in the back row, and introduced the specific situation of the target.
"Takako Ishii, a native of Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, moved to Tokyo when she was 22 years old. Since then, she has been working as a waiter at the Golden Rhine Restaurant in Ginza and met the No. 1 suspect, Sorge. The envelope contains her recent photos."
The spy leader said, glanced at Tetsuji Sudou, sneered in his heart, and called the other person's name the next second.
"Sudo, when you arrive at the target's residence, you will knock on the door and then cooperate with us in the search. I need you to follow the target every step of the way. Can you do it?"
Sudou Tetsuji nodded vigorously, as if gearing up, as if he didn't realize the difference between the two tasks of protection and search, but fate played a little joke on him and everyone else.
