"No. 9735, your interrogation time has come." The guard's roaring voice echoed in the dark dungeon of the Gestapo headquarters for a long time. The iron door of the dark room rose up. All the prisoners stood up alertly as if they were facing a great enemy. There was only a man wearing an iron gray suit and slightly gray hair turned a deaf ear to the voice and was still paced slowly in the cramped cell. He was prisoner No. 9735, former director of the Emperor's Information Bureau, Admiral William Canaris.

"You don't have to stare at me like this, nor do you have to look innocent. Canaris, arrest you as the command given by the head of state himself, and we have found enough evidence." In the specially arranged interrogation room, three people sat upright, with the Austrian fellow head of the head of state, Ernst Kartenbrunner, the new director of the Central Security Bureau of the Empire, Walter Schrenberger on the right, and Heinrich Muller on the left.

Hoffmann's reorganization of intelligence agencies was called "decisive". As soon as the strategic meeting ended, Himmler's director of the Imperial Security Bureau was removed, and the internal institutions also changed greatly. The Imperial Security Department (domestic functions) under Otto Orendorf and the Criminal Police Department under the charge of Artur Naibi were separated from the system of the Imperial Security Bureau and merged with the original ordinary police system. Himmler also served as the Imperial Police Director, and unified the domestic security and internal supervision. The Military Intelligence Bureau, which was originally independent and controlled by Canaris, was also equipped with the Imperial Security Bureau. The current Imperial Security Bureau was completely transformed into a

Professional institutions for intelligence collection, information analysis, espionage infiltration and domestic anti-espionage mainly include Walter Schrenberg's National Security Department (foreign functions and espionage dispatch), Heidrich Muller's Gestapo (domestic anti-espionage), and Garen's intelligence analysis department. The personnel and functions of the Military Intelligence Bureau have been screened according to the reclassification standards and were split and absorbed. Now, Kartenbrunner, who is in charge of the Imperial Security Bureau and also serves as the national deputy leader of the SS, has increased his power and is directly responsible to the head of state and reported on his work. There is a vague trend of replacing Heidrich who has been assassinated into the SS No. 2. Schrenberg, Muller and Garen are called the three troikas of the Security Bureau, with clear division of labor and mutual coordination.

Theoretically, the Imperial Security Administration is now a subordinate agency of the Supreme Command, and Keitel is their direct leader. But everyone knows that the control of the intelligence system has now been transferred to the head of state. The head of state not only controls the structural restructuring and functional adjustment of the intelligence system, but also personally checks out the relevant information content. Countless intelligence that has been summarized and processed, conflicts with each other or has not been distinguished in authenticity are sent to Hoffman's document like flowing, and is organized and installed by the secretariat every day.

After the order was submitted to the head of state for review, he submitted it to Hoffmann for review. Baumann was the main aider of this process. Everyone thought that the head of state would soon be overwhelmed by these trivial, invisible information, and ineffective in proving it. But on the contrary, the head of state not only carefully read all the information, but also made special comments on the information he thought was important or suspected. The report on the final conclusion of Canaris was a masterpiece completed by Galen based on Hoffmann's latest instructions.

Canaris sighed softly in his heart. As a veteran spy, being in a state of fear had long become a part of his life, but even so, he was still shocked by the suddenness of this operation - almost a few minutes after the strategic meeting discovered the treason group, Hoffman personally ordered the SS to arrest the hidden mole under the name of convening the meeting. He had been locked in for a few days, and what puzzled him was that why did the other party discover his flaws? Judging from the current interrogation posture, it would be difficult to escape unstoppable.

"General evidence is useless to you, because all intelligence agencies have your people infiltrated, and you can always remove your suspicion, but..." Heinrich Muller shook the information in his hand, with a confident expression, "You can't kill Reinhart Heidrich directly. No decent German will execute the order to assassinate the National Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the SS. You must rely on the British - to be precise, you handed the intelligence to the British and let the British manipulate the Czech underground organization to kill Heidrich."

Canaris remained silent: "This is the most unfounded guess I heard."

"It's very good. As the Head of State expected, you will deny everything." Schrenberg took over the conversation. "In the past few days, we have investigated all the personnel and information you have come into contact with. You have covered up all the clues that may be exposed, but there is no way to deal with the information reported and archived by various intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau and subordinate agencies within the scope of their authority. Do you want to listen to Director Garen's analysis report?"

Canaris did not respond, but listened to Schrenberger's self-written reading: "The archives show that before the Battle of Poland, the intelligence accuracy rate of you who reviewed and reported to the head of state was about 75%; before the Battle of Poland and the end of the Battle of France, the accuracy rate remained at about 70%. However, since the Battle of Britain, the accuracy rate of your reported intelligence dropped rapidly to 40% - you can use the intelligence collection and counter-espionage capabilities of British spy agencies to defend yourself, but the fact is that you deliberately concealed the correct or close to the correct information - whenever there is a conflicting intelligence delivered to you, you often report the wrong information after passing the review, and put the correct information to a high level.

The cabinet also commented on "nonsense". After searching and comparing the original archives, some important and correct intelligence has been destroyed by you. We can assume that your intelligence analysis ability suddenly declines, but it cannot explain the high contrast between the intelligence accuracy rate involving Britain and the United States and the intelligence accuracy rate involving the Soviet Union. Because 40% is only the average level, after removing the intelligence from the Eastern Front, your accuracy rate is less than 30%... And those intelligence contents that you denied and annotated "nonsense" have reached more than 70%. It can be seen that you carefully screened out the wrong information and submitted it to the Supreme Commander. Whether you have contacted the British or not, you cannot escape these charges."

Canaris was secretly frightened. This analysis report hit his weakness. As Schrenberg said, he did not have any formal intelligence or personnel exchanges with British and American intelligence agencies, but he firmly believed that he had been in contact with Menzies, the head of the British and ** Intelligence Department 6, and many things were known to be "C". Like an old friend who had not seen him for many years, he could make the other party feel his existence without a talk - because he had greatly released water in intelligence collection. The most typical example was that during the Battle of Britain, he issued a reference opinion to the Sea Lion Plan that 31 full divisions were deployed on the British Isles. In fact, Britain had only 6 exhausted and equipped divisions at this time. The Supreme Command and the Gestapo could not distinguish the secrets. The British spies hidden in the Military Intelligence Agency and the base camp could fully understand these contents.

"You can still deny the analysis report of Director Garen, but there is one thing you cannot escape." Kartenbrunner said, "General Henry Giro, former commander of the Seventh Army of France and head of the underground resistance organization, was locked in a secret prison by us. He was ordered to be executed according to the request of the head of state, but he escaped on the eve of the execution. You have always denied this order by formally notifying Reinhard Heidrich, believing that the prisoner escaped because of the sudden assassination of the latter. But we

The whole operation was sorted out again. The Frenchman couldn't say a German word, and he was a one-armed disabled person. It was impossible to do without anyone else's assistance on the way to escape. If you forged British intelligence agencies or other organizations to handle it, you would be able to mess up the matter, but the truth is that you did not take over with MI6 at all. Giro had just gotten a job omission or hidden danger in every key link before escaping from our control, and this was precisely because you ordered the relaxation of control..."

Kartenbrunner spoke in front of Canaris, his words were full of jokes. In fact, including the three horses and everyone could not believe that Canaris was the biggest enemy hidden in the empire. He was surprised by the decision of the Head of State to arrest the admiral without obvious evidence. What is even more unacceptable is that the subsequent investigation and analysis results showed that the Head of State's claim was completely correct. When all events that exceeded the normal probability of mistakes gathered together, the only explanation was to do it on purpose.

Kartenbrunner and the three troikas were unanimously affirming that Canaris did not have any contact with the British spy agencies. This is also the reason why the Gestapo originally suspected Canaris but had no definite evidence - they could not find the motive for Canaris' treason, and the performance of admirals in all aspects such as money, beauty, etc., and they did not have a deep hatred for the head of state like frustrated officials such as Baker and Blauchic. As senior generals of the Third Reich, Canaris had enough fame, status and power, and was a true top elite of the empire. In other words, there was no motive for committing crimes at all.

The head of state's opinion stunned them: "Idiot, his purpose of being a traitor is not for himself, he is for anti-war—this despicable, arrogant poor man thinks that the path he carried out is the only right direction."

"Since you all think you have my evidence, why do you have to try your best to interrogate me?" Canaris retorted without hesitation, "According to your words, I have no party, and don't want me to admit my duties that I have never assumed..."

"You are right, we have mastered the situation you know. You are not going to draw a conclusion from your mouth, but to tell you something you don't know or pretend not to know." Kartenbrunner stood up and ordered coldly, "Precaution him carefully, and you can't give him a chance to commit suicide, and you can't take the opportunity to escape."

Canaris was taken back to the cell where he was held in a separate prison, Walter Schrenberg and Kartenbrunner exchanged glances and asked Heinrich Muller: "Do you think the head of state's strategy will succeed?"

"This is a big fish, and it's also a fat bait. There are too many secrets hidden on him, and the British will be unable to help but be lonely." Heinrich Muller shook his head and said coldly, "There will definitely be countless minions rushing over like moths to the flames. Just like the story in the summer courtyard, we just need to prepare the lampshade and admire the corpses all over the ground..."
Chapter completed!