The Cold War: Jumping back and forth between the two camps

Chapter 316 Banquet

With Ridgway's consent, the CIA's next task became much simpler.

Dunn was stationed in the Peninsula region and even placed a number of intelligence personnel in the military. Of course, they did not appear as regular soldiers, and most of them were given the title of consultants.

Another benefit is that since CIA agents can go to the front line to collect intelligence, the demand for intelligence provided by South Korean officials has decreased a lot.

This also made Dunn miss a lot of fun, such as a certain South Korean army was extremely brave and killed or wounded more than 10,000 volunteers. Dunn didn't see many such fantasy plots.

Another good thing is that the smuggling routes with the mainland have been reopened. After several months of busy work, most of the families of South Korean officials have been taken out. Although there are also civilians who want to escape from the peninsula, many of them simply cannot afford the money for the boat tickets.

Moreover, South Korean officials also imposed restrictions on the number of people fleeing, and Dunn, as an official cooperating with South Korea, had to give them some face.

It is impossible to take away the entire population of the peninsula. Not to mention that Dunn does not have the ability to do so, if he really wants to do so, even if he can only take away 1/10 of them.

It is estimated that those who are recruiting soldiers on the front line of the peninsula will protest to Dunn. Even if Dunn is a CIA agent, he will not get any benefits if this matter is investigated.

However, the smuggling route was not completely cut off. After the original ticket price was increased by nearly 10 times, there were still some civilians who could raise enough money for the tickets, but they were relatively fewer. In addition, Dunn's route was also carried out in cooperation with relevant South Korean officials.

After all, after the price was raised, although the number of people decreased, relatively speaking, the money that originally earned from 10 people could now be earned by one person, which also had a considerable profit. If the South Korean officials were not well fed, I am afraid they would find it difficult to agree to Dunn continuing this smuggling business.

This more or less refreshed Dunn's bottom line. He didn't expect that South Korean officials in this era would be so cruel to cheat their own grassroots people.

Because Dunn originally wanted to increase the value of the subpoena by 2-3 times, but the South Korean officials proposed to increase the price by 10 times, which scared Dunn very much. He felt that such a high subpoena was impossible for anyone to afford. You have to know that the quality of life in South Korea at that time was generally not high. How much money could the lower-class people who had just escaped from the Japanese have in their hands?

However, South Korean officials are extremely confident about this, and those who have seen it implemented cannot help but admire their ability to control the property of their own lower-class people.

It should be said that even after the price increase, there will still be quite a number of South Korean people who can pool together money to buy tickets, but there will certainly be a lot fewer people by then.

This also opened Dunn's eyes.

"Mr. Du, please, please! Let's... let's cooperate... uh! Happy cooperation!"

An obviously drunk South Korean official held up a glass of wine and handed it to Dunn. Dunn smiled and clinked glasses with the South Korean official, and drank the wine in the glass.

"Minister Sun! You've drunk enough today, that's enough!"

At this time, Dunn was invited to attend a banquet from South Korea. Not only South Korean officials attended the banquet, but also various foreigners like Dunn who were hanging around in South Korea, including senior officials from various countries' garrisons.

Although the situation on the front line is not very optimistic now, people in the rear are still living a life of luxury.

You must know that at this moment the fifth battle has already begun. Although the UN forces are fighting back and forth with the Volunteer Army on the surface, in fact all the strategic goals have basically not been achieved.

Overall, the fifth battle was a failure for the UN forces, but this did not affect the various banquets in the rear at all.

During the fifth campaign alone, Dunn attended no less than three banquets of this level.

Although I have now become a beautiful Chinese, and beautiful Chinese are relatively speaking party creatures.

But Dunn still didn't want to attend this kind of banquet. If it wasn't for the smooth progress of his work, he really had no interest in this kind of chaotic banquet.

The only things that could attract Dunn were the socialites who were interspersed in the banquet, but Dunn politely declined to attend to these women.

As an intelligence officer, Dunn knew too well who was behind these socialites. It could be said that none of those who could attend a meeting of this level were simple people.

"Hmm? I was a little...drunk! I'm sorry to have embarrassed...Mr. Du!"

The South Korean minister in front of me could no longer speak clearly.

"But don't worry, Mr. Du! I remember everything you said. I will tell those soldiers on Geoje Island to fully cooperate with Mr. Du's work!"

Dunn now had some difficulty listening to the minister. Although his Korean was quite good, the minister in front of him had drunk too much and his speech was unclear.

Considering the noisy environment of the banquet, if you don't listen carefully, you may not be able to understand what he said.

"Minister Sun! Thank you very much!"

Dunn was willing to appear at this banquet because of the living conditions of the prisoners of war on Geoje Island.

Although during this period, Dunn would visit Geoje Island from time to time.

The lives of prisoners of war on Geoje Island have indeed improved a lot now, but from time to time, some American and South Korean soldiers still abuse prisoners by freezing their hands and feet, and this situation continues despite repeated bans.

Dunn could not and did not want to intervene on the US military side, but on the South Korean side, Dunn still had some face and took the chicken feathers given by his superiors as a token of authority. He briefly mentioned this matter to relevant officials at the banquet, and the other party patted their chests and promised that they would fully cooperate with Dunn's work and stop their own soldiers from abusing prisoners on Geoje Island.

It is proven that Minister Sun is in charge of South Korea's logistics, including the gathering of troops on the island.

With his words, the South Korean soldiers would not dare to abuse the prisoners.

Finally, this trip to the banquet was not in vain.

"What are you thanking me for? Mr. Du's matter is..."

Before he could finish his words, Minister Sun fainted due to an itch on his head. Dunn had no choice but to call the minister's subordinates and ask them to carry the minister away.

I hope he can still remember what he said when he is sober, but there is no need to worry, after all, the minister had already promised me when he was sober.