Chapter 40 Andrew's Action 1

This morning, Yannick had just walked into the office when Anne followed him in. "Your Highness, the memorandum you asked me to write a year ago is due. It's called 'Operation Bernard'." At that time, His Highness asked her to draft a memorandum with the code name "Operation Bernard". But he only gave her a code name and didn't tell her the specific content, only saying to remind him after a year. Now that a year has passed, she is a little worried whether His Highness still remembers this action plan with only a code name but no content.

"It's been a year so quickly." Yannick couldn't help but mutter in a low voice. Although he gradually got used to his new identity in this year, he was still a little dazed sometimes, as if he was still the ordinary person before the time travel.

After sighing for a while, Yannick shook his head, stopped thinking about these useless things, and ordered. "Let Reinhard come."

Soon Reinhard hurried in. "Your Highness, what do you want?"

Yannick pointed to the sofa and motioned him to sit down. "The Intelligence Department has almost mastered it."

Reinhard's words revealed a sense of confidence. "Yes, Your Highness, Mr. Hans said he was considering early retirement!"

"Yes, I was right." Yannick took out a document and handed it to him. "This is the blueprint of the national overall intelligence agency I planned, take a look."

Reinhard took the document respectfully and began to read it carefully. After reading it twice in a row, he exclaimed sincerely. "Your Highness is wise, this is a really meticulous blueprint."

Yannick smiled. In fact, he didn't need to spend much time on this intelligence agency blueprint. He could just copy the intelligence agency structure of the original time and space America. Although it is not known whether there are other secret departments, there are 16 open intelligence organizations in the United States, which are coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI, also translated as the National Intelligence Agency), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is directly commanded, managed and controlled by the President.

Except for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO, engaged in spy satellite reconnaissance), the other 16 intelligence organizations can be established at any time. Yannick changed the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to the "National Secret Police Organization (Geheime Staats Polizei)".

Seeing Reinhard was about to put the documents back on the table, Yannick waved his hand. "Put the documents away. I think your ability should not be limited to a secret intelligence department. In the future, you will be the Director of National Intelligence. You will not have much time left, so you must be prepared."

Reinhard stood straight like a bamboo pole and saluted respectfully. "Thank you for your cultivation, Your Highness. I will work hard and live up to your trust."

Remember when he asked him to take over the intelligence work a year ago, he said "I will try my best", right? It seems that he has really adapted to the intelligence work.

Yannick made a special reminder. "I want GSP to infiltrate every corner of society and every walk of life, collect and snoop on all kinds of information and intelligence. But remember, without my special instructions, GSP cannot exercise the right of arrest. And it's not just Germany, you have to be prepared to infiltrate all of Europe. In the future, I want all of Europe's actions to not escape the eyes of the Gestapo."

He knew that Reinhard would do a good job without him saying much. In the original time and space before World War II, an American reporter stationed in Berlin wrote: "Your son, your father, your wife, your cousin, your friend, your boss, your secretary, may all be informers of Heydrich's organization."

In the play "The ** Woman Under the Gun of the Gestapo", Hoffman, the German Governor-General in Belgium, was reported by his wife just because he sent a winter coat to his son on the Eastern Front. This is a true portrayal of this period of history.

"Understood."

"I called you here this time to carry out two top-secret plans. The first plan is code-named "Operation Andrew". The plan is to secretly search for and capture those counterfeiters. Find all those who can forge passports, documents, stamps, cultural relics and other supplies. I want to produce large quantities of counterfeit money, so that the fakes will not be discovered even if they are stored in the Bank of England."

During World War II, Germany printed a large number of realistic counterfeit banknotes to disrupt the markets of allies and arbitrage supplies.

Using counterfeit banknotes as a weapon of war is not new, nor is it invented by the Germans. Using counterfeit banknotes to disrupt the economy of hostile countries is a continuation of war in the field of currency. The history of counterfeit money can be traced back to ancient Greece. Frederick the Great of Prussia once made currency for the circulation of his opponent Poland during the Seven Years' War. Napoleon once approved the printing of counterfeit Austrian and Russian banknotes; during the American Civil War, the North and the South also widely used fake bills to attack the enemy's financial system.

In fact, during World War II, Britain also established its own counterfeiting team, the "A" technical team, but their work was limited to the manufacture of counterfeit passports, documents, stamps and camouflage supplies, and they never carried out large-scale counterfeiting.

It's not that they didn't consider it. In 1940, the head of the British special intelligence organization visited Prime Minister Chamberlain and asked the cabinet about the possibility and desirability of spreading counterfeit German marks in enemy territory. Chamberlain concluded that the strength of the pound and the German mark was very different, and "if Germany retaliates, we will obviously lose more than they will."

The British had concerns, but the Germans did not. German Criminal Police Chief Arthur first proposed the suggestion of making counterfeit money, which was approved by Reinhard, and the counterfeit money conspiracy of SS Bernhard Kruger was officially launched. This conspiracy was named "Operation Andrew" (Operation Andrew is often mistakenly called "Operation Bernhard" because of the surname of its chief officer).

A printer rescued late in the war calculated that the entire operation produced approximately £135 million worth of counterfeit notes. While this most likely underestimates the overall value of the counterfeit notes, the news still shocked the world.

In February 1945, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer ordered the withdrawal of all ten-dollar pounds in circulation, and immediately announced to the public that this unprecedented move was not caused by the counterfeit crisis. In early 1946, security banknotes with a metal strip across the banknote replaced all other denominations of pounds sterling. People can still recognize these metal security marks on banknotes in use today.

As of January 9, 1951, the Bank of England had collected a total of 1,860,223 counterfeit banknotes of various denominations. By 1959, a total of more than three million banknotes had been collected. Counterfeit notes were burned, but this was not the end of all "Andrew" notes.

After hearing about Yannick's counterfeit money plan, Reinhard responded without hesitation. "I understand, Your Highness."

"The second plan is to establish a secret department and recruit financial talents. These people cannot be from the Junker aristocracy, nor can they be involved with the Jewish people. I want people with absolutely clean identities and loyal to the royal family. The people in this department My duty is to investigate the financiers, entrepreneurs, and businessmen in Germany. Whether they are Junker nobles, Jewish people, or ordinary entrepreneurs, I will thoroughly investigate all those from the emperor down! Dig out all the hoarding moths, do you understand?"

He mentioned this matter to William II in advance. William II asked him what happened after he found the evidence of those people? What to do with them?

Yannick's answer is simple. "Ordinary people and Jewish people were arrested directly, their property was confiscated, and all the people were thrown into concentration camps and worked until they died. Those who are powerful can only let them go for the time being, and fatten them up first, and wait for the future. Let’s settle it together. But grandpa, you have to warn them not to go too far. If they are too greedy, I don’t mind using extrajudicial methods to deal with them.”

William II nodded, this kid was really thoughtful.