The ss-level intelligence mentioned by Li Zhen is a kind of intelligence level division.

Intelligence, as a commodity, is circulated in the underground world and is also subdivided into different levels. According to the current confidentiality regulations of most countries, it is from low to high to eight levels of e to sss.

The lowest level of e is the information that the public knows. These contents are no longer in the category of intelligence. You can find it by spending ten yuan or a cigarette on the roadside chatting with people or asking for inquiries. This level of intelligence is not of great value. For example, if City A wants to build a building somewhere or rectify an area, it is not possible to analyze useful data from these useless information.

D-level intelligence is the second to last, which can be roughly understood as regional news. For example, something happened in City A, and many people know about City A, but City B next door is little known. This type of intelligence is classified as Class D-level intelligence. However, due to the high development of the Internet, this type of information is not of high value.

Most of the C-level intelligence are intelligence information that ordinary people cannot access, such as case investigation files of the police station, bids for a company, investment plans, etc. This type of intelligence has a certain value and can be sold for some price. Most commercial spies sell C-level intelligence, but generally speaking, the value of C-level intelligence is not very high, because it can be obtained through relationship operation.

Class B intelligence already belongs to confidential intelligence and is also the most sold information by brokers. Internal organizations of some countries, conference memorandums or adjustment plans for some large enterprises, some black materials for world celebrities, etc. Class B intelligence due to restrictions, the grades will be somewhat uneven and the prices will fluctuate greatly. For example, Apple's iPhone 13 design drawings and Scarlett's colors today are both B intelligence, but the people who need it differently can sell them at high prices.

Class A intelligence is already a piece of information that 99.9% of people around the world cannot contact or know. It can be understood as the research results, progress, schedules of most national leaders or contracts signed by some countries in private. This type of intelligence is mixed, and it is difficult to distinguish the true or false. Many Class A intelligence are smoke bombs deliberately released by some countries.

As for S, SS and the highest-level SSS intelligence, although there are a lot of them every year, no one knows the news about real buyers and sellers. This type of intelligence has a great relationship. These intelligence may cause a regional conflict, a coup, etc. For example, in the coup before the native chicken, someone took the local chicken to participate in the coup sold military information and was bought at a high price. As a result, Kemal's final glory ended, the glorious tradition of the native chicken revolution ended, and became...

The specific classification of the three levels of s, ss and sss cannot be determined in words. The levels will also be different depending on the needs of the person. Just like when the bearded man was hiding in the past, he could be sold as S-level intelligence, but when he encountered an American buyer, you could be sold as SS-level intelligence, after all, Americans urgently needed it.

There is also an intelligence level of ss+. This type of intelligence is classified as top secret. The most typical example is the truth of Kennedy's assassination. This is the top secret file. Basically all insiders are silenced. There are no more than five people in the world who know the truth.

With perfect hierarchical division, intelligence transactions are very complex and have a complex process. An intelligence merchant sells intelligence, but often cannot prove the authenticity of this information. Their task is to collect intelligence and then find suitable buyers. The buyers analyze the purchased intelligence to find useful information.

This is a traditional intelligence transaction method that has been used until the 1980s and 1990s. However, as the world's information technology becomes more and more advanced, the timeliness of intelligence has become shorter and shorter. Buyers need to be anxious to take action and sellers need accurate intelligence. So intelligence brokers like Li Zhen were born.

The work content of intelligence brokers is relatively complicated and will be roughly divided into three categories. The first category is to buy intelligence. For example, intelligence brokers a obtained the latest US military mobilization of intelligence, and the target is Country Y. This intelligence will only be valuable if sold to Country Y. However, if you ask the merchant to report it, you cannot contact the intelligence personnel of Country Y. At this time, brokers like Li Zhen are needed to be intermediaries and promote transactions. Such transactions are Li Zhen’s favorite trading method, which is safe, efficient, and has a considerable commission.

The second type is a little more complicated. It is also the latest US military mobilization of intelligence. After the intelligence agent gets the information, it will sell it directly to Li Zhen. Li Zhen will pay a certain price to buy this information based on his experience, and then sell it to the intelligence agent in Country Y to earn the price difference. However, if one encounters a company that sells more information or the intelligence exceeds the time limit, it will be smashed into his own hands. This type of transaction has certain risks. Generally speaking, only large brokers are willing to bear such risks and maximize benefits.

The last one is to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence. This fee can be paid to Li Zhen by the intelligence merchant. Depending on the intelligence level, the prices are also different. Of course, generally speaking, intelligence merchants will not take the initiative to verify the authenticity of the intelligence. Most of the people who verify the authenticity of the intelligence are proposed by the seller, and Li Zhen can also charge a considerable fee, but compared with the second one, the money is not much.

Verifying the authenticity of intelligence is the most work done by intelligence brokers since the 21st century. Most buyers buy ten intelligences, at most three or four useful items, and more of them are useless intelligence or false information. Of course, if you buy fake intelligence, it can only mean that you are unlucky. After all, this is a shameful transaction without any legal constraints.

This also makes intelligence peddlers a dangerous profession, because there are often organizations or countries behind the people who buy intelligence. There are many intelligence peddlers in their homes because of fake intelligence. Just like the Russian who died in London the previous year, a double-faced spy and an intelligence peddler. As a result, his intelligence fooled the emperor, and the emperor was furious...

There is also a special group of spies coexisting with intelligence merchants, intelligence brokers, and intelligence buyers. However, after the 21st century, countries have been at the greatest risk of spies. At the same time, due to the excessive development of information, there are various factors, and groups such as spies have also begun to undergo some changes. In addition to the deaths they cultivated by themselves, most spies are both sides, three sides or even dozens of spies.

However, these spies play more like intelligence merchants. After getting the information, they report it back and then sell it on the market. This is also the main reason why many intelligence lacks timeliness.

Ordinary people seem to be unable to contact with spies and intelligence providers, but they are often hidden among ordinary people. For example, when the United States used spies to survey China maps, it was not spies, but a large number of foreign tourists entering China.

This is also the reason why hikers are rampant in the late 1990s and early 20th century. Many times, these people don’t even know that they are already engaged in spy work. They will be entrusted before entering the country, take simple equipment to measure a certain area, and finally bring the data back to China. Finally, based on satellite shooting, a complete map is formed, and even some bases hidden in the mountains are leaked at this time.
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