Chapter 1303 Confession
After the arrest scene was under control, Kiyofuku Okamoto walked into the house. He slowly came to Sorge and announced the arrest decision in his calm eyes.
"Mr. Sorge, you were arrested on suspicion of providing intelligence to the Red Russia. We will report the matter to the German Embassy, but we will not hand you over to the German side."
As Okamoto announced the arrest decision, several Japanese agents pressed Sorge hard and handcuffed his hands behind his back. They also checked his collar and teeth to prevent suicide agents hidden in these places.
"Ahem, Mr. Okamoto." Sorge, who was having difficulty breathing, coughed twice and pretended to be helpless and said, "I think this must be a misunderstanding."
"No, this is not a misunderstanding." Okamoto Kiyofuku squatted down and said in a cold tone: "Now please tell me, who sent you that warning letter, and who are your downlines?"
Sorge gasped and laughed while replying: "There is no warning letter, it was sent to me by friends, I..."
Before he finished speaking, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of Sorge's mouth, his eyes gradually became blurred, and the agents suddenly panicked.
Kiyofuku Okamoto was the first to react. He glanced around the scene and stopped at the half cigarette butt.
He picked up the cigarette **** and put it in front of his nose, gently fanned it with his other hand, and immediately smelled a faint smell of almonds.
"Baga! It's Shannai! Get first aid quickly." Kiyofuku Okamoto roared, but his expression remained calm.
Most poisons have a lethal time and lethal dose. As long as the poison is not taken in too much or treated properly, there will be no life-threatening danger.
The intelligence personnel of the General Staff Headquarters had received relevant training, and they also carried antidotes for common poisons on this trip. After hearing Okamoto Kiyofuku's order, they immediately gave Sorge first aid.
All the windows of the small building were opened, fresh air poured into the room instantly, and a tube of isoamyl nitrite inhaler was pressed against Sorge's mouth and nose.
Sorge struggled desperately and refused treatment, but the agents held his body and head firmly, and one even punched him hard in the abdomen, which made him subconsciously take a sip of the antidote.
The methemoglobin produced by isoamyl nitrite can delay the onset of kaempferol in the circulatory system of the body and create conditions for further detoxification.
Okamoto Kiyofuku sneered. Before he confessed, he would not allow the other party to die so comfortably. The interrogation room of the Intelligence Department was ready, waiting for the protagonist to appear.
After some first aid, Sorge's vital signs returned to stable, and the agents tied him to a stretcher and carried him out, then drove him back to the staff headquarters.
In order to prevent Red Russian agents from kidnapping prisoners, Okamoto Kiyofor specially arranged for the tanks of the Guards Division to **** along the route. Any suspicious persons or vehicles approaching the convoy would be arrested first and then interrogated, causing chaos in Tokyo.
When Sugiyama Gen received the news and came to the General Staff Headquarters building, the motorcade happened to stop in the courtyard. Okamoto Kiyofuku jumped out of the car and asked the guards to close the door and strengthen the alert.
The rest of the agents escorted the stretcher into the detention center (detention center). Sorge's mouth was gagged and he was lying on the stretcher and twisting his body.
Sugiyama Gen frowned and took two steps forward and walked down the steps: "Okamoto-kun, why did you arrest the No. 1 suspect? The intelligence network behind him is our real target."
Kiyofuku Okamoto looked ashamed, stood at attention and bowed: "I'm sorry, sir, our actions were discovered by the Red Russians. Someone sent a warning letter to suspect No. 1, so I had no choice but to arrest him."
"Nani? Warning letter?" Sugiyama Yuan exclaimed, his head a little confused.
Monitoring Sorge and related suspects is a top-secret operation that he is personally responsible for. Who dares to tip off the information in front of the General Staff Headquarters?
Kiyofuku Okamoto bent his waist a few more degrees and said respectfully: "Hai, the postman delivered two letters and three postcards to the target. One of the letters was not sent by the post office. It may have been secretly put in by a Red Russian spy." Mailbag.
We only found a letter at the scene. After preliminary investigation, the missing letter has been destroyed. The evidence is the traces of burning in the ashtray and the toilet has been flushed. This is my mistake. Please forgive me. "
Sugiyama Gen waved his hands and didn't care. Sorge was a professional agent and had plenty of reaction time before being arrested. It was impossible to leave evidence to them. He was curious about another thing.
"After the letters from the Empire are sent out, they will all have postmarks from the post office. As a professional who delivers letters every day, the postman should be able to tell whether the postmark is genuine or not. Does the other party really have no problem?"
"Director, this is exactly what I want to say next." Okamoto Kiyofuku had thought of this before and had a corresponding understanding. He then replied after hearing Sugiyama Gen's question.
"According to the postman's recollection, both letters were stamped with postmarks, and there was almost no difference between them. This shows that the Red Russians have professional support agencies in Tokyo and can forge various documents and seals."
Sugiyama Gen deeply agreed and kept yelling. He asked Okamoto Kiyofuku to pry open Sorge's mouth as soon as possible and dig out more Red Russian spies.
"Hai, please rest assured, sir." Kiyofuku Okamoto puffed up his chest, reassured Sugiyama Gen, and turned around to go to the detention center.
While the two were talking, Miyagi and Clausen were also brought to the staff headquarters. Clausen was fine, but his clothes were torn and he looked a little embarrassed. Miyagi's situation was much worse. Not only was he shot in the shoulder, his face was also covered with scars, and he was dragged along by agents.
The special agent responsible for escorting him was also disgraced. It seemed that the arrest operation did not go smoothly, but the result did not change. Except for Ozaki, all the top leaders of Sorge's team were wiped out.
Seeing the suspects being taken into custody one by one, Sugiyama Gen thought of the transaction with Suzuki Kantaro, and quickly returned to his office to answer the other party's phone and report the situation here.
Since the plan to use Shelikov as bait to catch Sorge offline failed, their previous agreement will be invalidated.
The Army is not a charity, and it is impossible to support Ichiro Hayashi to become the Minister of the Ministry of Finance in vain unless the Suzuki family and the Hayashi family can provide other benefits.
After listening to Sugiyama Gen's explanation, Suzuki Kantaro sneered, thinking that the other party was going back on his word, and his words were quite sarcastic.
Sugiyama Gen didn't want to offend the imperial veteran, so he had to ask him and Hayashi Fuichiro to observe the interrogation at an appropriate time to prove that Sorge's arrest had nothing to do with Hayashi Fuichiro's suggestion.
Not to mention how Sugiyama Gen and Suzuki Kantaro struggled, Miyagi in the interrogation room was hung in the air half a meter above the ground by the agents with a steel rope passed through the hand bones.
Under the influence of gravity, the sharp edge of the steel rope sliced open his flesh bit by bit, tearing off the bones and tendons. Blood spurted out from the wound as if it was free, and soon dyed the ground red.
The screams echoed in the gloomy corridor, but the interrogators at the General Staff Headquarters had long been accustomed to it, and they even took the time to have a meal.
The stove used to heat the soldering iron burned red, drying the surrounding blood, and filled the air with a disgusting stench.
The agents were shirtless, sitting next to the **** Miyagi, feasting and laughing wildly from time to time. The scene was like a **** on earth.
Clausen in another interrogation room received a more "civilized" interrogation. After all, he is a Canadian citizen. Japan has no plans to fall out with Europe and the United States now, and the scene still needs to be done.
As usual, the agent asked Clausen about his true identity, code name, position and mission content, and told him that he could leave as long as he confessed.
But Clawson's reaction shocked everyone. When the agent threatened him with red-hot charcoal, he jerked his head and bit into the charcoal, which was thousands of degrees hot, and swallowed it.
The treatment of burns has always been a difficult problem in the medical field, not to mention that Clausen suffered severe burns to his mouth, throat, and esophagus, with almost no chance of survival.
A few days later, Clausen, who was tortured beyond human dignity, died of serious injuries. From entering the interrogation room of the General Staff Headquarters to swallowing charcoal, he never revealed a word to the Japanese.
However, Clausen’s wife was a White Russian aristocrat. When she married Clausen, she was examined by the Red Russian intelligence agency. Therefore, she knew that her husband was working for Red Russia, so the first oral evidence appeared.
This was very detrimental to Sorge and others. The General Staff Headquarters, like a wild dog that smelled meat, couldn't wait to put the confession in front of Sorge and Miyagi.
However, even with the confession, Sorge still insisted that he worked for the newspaper and was not a Red Russian spy, and repeatedly asked to meet his friend the German ambassador.
At this time, the German ambassador was also working on Sorge's case. He did not believe that Sorge was an underground party. In order to rescue Sorge, this person even went to Tojo to intercede, but it was of little use.
After many negotiations, or perhaps for the sake of the Japanese-German alliance, Tojo allowed the German ambassador to visit, provided that Sorge admitted his identity as a spy.
Things fell into an endless loop. Sorge admitted that he could not escape death. If he did not admit, he would be detained for a long time. The German ambassador angrily raised a diplomatic inquiry and strongly demanded that Japan release its citizens.
Of course there is a reason why the Germans worked so hard. In order to gain the trust of German officials, Sorge once provided certain intelligence to the German ambassador.
When Miyagi learned the news of Clauson's sacrifice, he burst into tears. Perhaps it was after the safe time, or perhaps he was stimulated by the death of his companion, Miyagi spoke.
Miyagi told all the information about the origins of Sorge's team and the missions they had performed, except that he did not provide a list of offline personnel. This was the part that Kiyofuku Okamoto was most interested in.
Okamoto is convinced that the Sorge team must have high-level insiders at the top of Japan, otherwise the leaked top-secret information cannot be explained.
After sorting out Miyagi's confession, Okamoto Kiyofuku decided to meet Sorge personally. As long as the other party confesses, the Red Russian spy network in Japan will collapse.
Facing the storm of torture, Sorge endured for a whole week, but human patience has its limits. When the time came to the afternoon of the eighth day, he slowly raised his head and said a few names.
"My downline is, Ozaki..."
(End of chapter)
