Langley, Virginia, is the location of the CIA. As the best torture experts in the CIA pried open Ben Ali's mouth, a new mysterious figure appeared in front of the Columbia intelligence team. This is a Russian man who lived or had lived in the United States. He has a high status in the Slav gang and is a respected thief. Although there is no more information, the thief itself filters out a lot of suspects. Because the Slav gang members who can become thief will definitely not be unknown.

Now the intelligence team needs to shift its focus from Colombia to the United States and find this law thief with all his eyes from the vast crowd. Doing this kind of thing is not the strength of the CIA, but the FBI and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration have learned more about organized crime in China.

After the CIA informed the FBI and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency, it received a disappointing response. Even the agency knew little about the Slavs' gang in the United States.

"Why are you not sure? Don't you know that this thief is Escobar's largest arms supplier?" the CIA liaison officer asked impatiently.

"Sorry, our main opponents are Italian and Latin American gangs. The Slavs' gang is not our focus of surveillance! And so far, we have not found direct evidence of such a big shot in China." The other party explained to the CIA liaison officer.

Replies from the FBI and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration were not satisfactory, so the CIA had to find another way, and they thought of a stupid way to find clues from the files of the Federal Prison Administration of Justice.

The Colombian Intelligence Team quickly summoned more intelligence personnel to participate in the operation. They selected Russian criminals with gang backgrounds from the Federal Prison Administration's archives as a breakthrough point. Such prisoners are generally core members of the gang, and their information channels and connections are naturally wider. If a thief is in the United States, they will definitely not be unclear.

This kind of thing is not enough to rely solely on the efforts of the CIA. They also have to crack down on Escobar's growing power, so the trivial task of going to prison to interrogate these prisoners one by one was entrusted to the FBI, which is responsible for combating domestic criminal activities.

The FBI interrogated hundreds of Russian prisoners with gang backgrounds in more than 50 federal prisons and state prisons in many states in the United States. Most of them scoffed at the FBI's interrogation. But hard work paid off and they still found some clues.

"I know a few such guys, but most of them came to the United States because of the persecution of the Soviet government. These people are either dead or retired now." In a state prison in Virginia, an elderly prisoner was finally willing to answer the FBI's questions, but this guy has been imprisoned for too long and he no longer knows many things outside.

"The thief we are looking for should be the United States that has only arrived in recent years. He seems to be a business in arms." FBI officials asked unwillingly.

"Sorry, I don't think there is this number among the people I know. We were all expelled from our hometowns pennilessly, and then came to the United States without a word of English. The first thing we did after getting off the boat was to find an Orthodox church, because the Orthodox church would let us live temporarily and help us find a job. People like me, except for being in the underworld, can only be chefs in the Russian restaurants on Brighton Beach."

"Brighton Beach? Where is that?" the federal agent asked casually.

"It is a Russian community in New York. It is said to be a playground a few years ago, but it was abandoned. The Soviet immigrants who had newly arrived in this country all lived in this place at the beginning." This kind of thing is not a secret, so the prisoners said nothing.

Federal agents talked with the prisoner for about an hour, and they recorded the transcripts in full and handed them over to the CIA. Although the report had no actual content, because there were not many prisoners willing to speak, the report was treated by someone.

After a month of investigation and analysis, the CIA still found no specific content. They felt that the thief seemed to have no contact with these gang members who had already made a fuss in the United States. The content these people said was not very valuable, but some key points in the transcript still attracted the attention of intelligence experts. That is, those Russian-American communities that are not much distributed on the east and west coasts.

Most of the Russians who left their hometowns had a strong rural complex. You should know that the earliest vodka brewers in the United States came from the former Tsarist Russia. Although all white people were the same in the eyes of Asians, the residents of Western and Eastern Europe belonged to different races since the Roman era. Most of the Western Europeans were descendants of Germans and Celtics, while Eastern Europe was the Slavs. Later, after the Roman Empire split, Western and Eastern Europe even had crosses and the Popes.

Most of the major immigrants in the United States come from Western Europe, so the Slavs are actually not a member of the mainstream American society. Having their own community is a means for many American minorities to protect themselves.

The arrival of Russian immigrants only took a few decades. After the October Revolution, Russian immigrants in the United States have moved to settle down one after another. In recent years, the number of real Russians has not increased, and most of the people who immigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States were Jews. In addition, there were only a few dissidents and defectors. Due to the small number of people, the Russian community has never been the focus of American surveillance. On the contrary, the CIA has always paid close attention to those Jews from the Soviet Union.

Because the gains in federal prisons were not great, the CIA planned to conduct subsequent investigations from Soviet Jews or some key Russian-American communities. At the same time, the CIA's reconnaissance aircraft and maritime reconnaissance ships began to secretly pay attention to ocean freighters that frequently docked in Colombia.
Chapter completed!