Spy-x-War Showdown
Chapter 185 - 184 Scapegoat

Chapter 185: Chapter 184 Scapegoat

Paul was very satisfied with what Brian had said, and his eyes began to light up.

Yang Yi was now very suspicious, no, he was certain that beneath Paul’s amiable exterior hid a heart that belonged to a devil.

One really can’t judge a book by its cover.

Paul began to get excited, making no attempt to hide it.

"We can rebuild, gather our people back together; just the two of us isn’t enough, we need to bring everyone together!"

Paul patted his chest, then confidently said, "For so many years, I’ve maintained the habit of keeping fit. I don’t eat red meat, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I run three kilometers every day, and practice shooting three times a week. Am I old? No, I’ve just matured!"

Brian chuckled and said, "I really can’t understand how you became a priest."

"Because my grandfather was a priest, my father was a priest, so of course, I should be a priest."

Brian smiled and said, "I know, you told me that many years ago, which is why I came here to find you."

Paul very seriously said, "I am very devout, so I like sending those with heavy sins to meet God, God will forgive their sins."

Brian smiled and said, "Then we should probably get in touch with everyone."

Paul raised a finger, speaking seriously, "Although I’m still very angry at you, I don’t owe this country anything, but I owe you a lot. After the anger has been vented, I realized I still prefer the life of following you. The others should feel more or less the same, but there is one exception, Aaron, he absolutely hates you to death!"

Brian shrugged and said, "He should hate me, I ruined his career."

Paul sighed and said, "Aaron had it tough, you betrayed the people of the Middle East Intelligence Agency, several key agents were killed by the KGB. As your right-hand man, Aaron could not guarantee..."

Brian stood up, shaking violently, and said with a quivering voice, "What did you say?"

Paul looked surprised and said, "What’s wrong? What did I say? I mentioned Aaron..."

"You said several people from the Intelligence Agency are dead?"

"Yes, isn’t that what happens when you betray them?"

Brian’s face was one of shock, and he said with a quivering voice, "But I didn’t! I didn’t! I only gave the KGB our operational plans!"

Paul too stood up, a look of disbelief on his face, and said, "What?"

Brian, trembling, said, "I didn’t betray the people of the Intelligence Agency, not a single one! We were only from the operations division, Paul, how could I have known about the spies the Intelligence Agency was handling? I just told the KGB about our operational plans, so they could tell if the KGB’s mole had been exposed through our operations. I only informed them that the operations division was going to move against a mole hidden by the KGB in Egypt, allowing them to pull out their mole in time to avoid losing the entire intel line, that’s all I told them!"

Paul, with a quivering voice, said, "That’s not right, it shouldn’t be like this!"

Brian spread his hands open, panicked, and said, "Of course it’s not right! I sold information. I’m not going into the reasons now, but I truly only sold one piece of information and besides, I had all of you reassigned! No one would be in danger. The KGB could only save one high-level mole of theirs. Why should anyone from the Intelligence Agency die?"

Brian slowly sat back down, nodding his head and said, "I understand now! I finally understand! This was all just a conspiracy, no wonder they accused me of so many crimes during the interrogation! I told the interrogators that I had betrayed only one piece of information, I denied everything else. There were several more interrogations, but no one told me that people from the Intelligence Agency had died..."

Did Brian have to lie? Of course, he had no need to lie. He had admitted to being a traitor to his country for over twenty years, he had long confessed. So, Brian had no reason to minimize his actions.

Paul was also somewhat dumbfounded, then he shouted, "You are a scapegoat! You’re just a scapegoat!"

Brian took a deep breath and then nodded, "Yes! I am that scapegoat!"

Paul urgently said, "If it wasn’t you who betrayed the Intelligence Agency, then there must be someone else, a mole of higher rank, with more value to the Soviet Union, and you, you were just used to cover for that mole! It doesn’t matter what information you sold, the KGB would deliberately deliver the evidence to the higher-ups, and then they would also deliberately provide a whole chain of concrete evidence to the CIA!"

Brian spoke softly, "High-level officials! Only they could do such things, no, that’s not right. If there were conclusive evidence, I would not have gone through trial after trial to obtain a confession before being convicted. If there were a complete chain of evidence, plus the need to produce someone quickly to take the fall for all the crimes at that time, then I alone would have been enough. But it’s not right, has nobody felt that there was something wrong here, wanting to root out the real mole?"

Paul sighed, then he said in a deep voice, "Aldrich Ames, do you know this person?"

"I know, Aldrich, I’ve even had contact with him; he was the chief of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Counterintelligence Division in 1985."

Paul smiled and said, "He was a mole for the KGB, the entire intelligence network of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was completely destroyed. For a significant period, our colleagues in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Intelligence Agency could only base their reports on the news because the entire network had been compromised. It’s what Aldrich did. He served the KGB for nine years and received a total of 4.6 million US Dollars in compensation. He was caught, imprisoned, and executed in 1994, by which time you were already in jail, so you didn’t know."

Brian, quivering, said, "But he was the chief of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe’s Counterintelligence Division! My God."

"It seems you were really just a scapegoat, and the real mole is still well-hidden to this day, Bill was right..."

Paul suddenly covered his face with his hands, then choked up and said in a low voice, "Bill was really right, he said those things weren’t done by you, he firmly believed the people of the Intelligence Agency weren’t betrayed, it turns out he was really right..."

Brian, with a quivering voice, asked, "Who turned Aldrich?"

Paul removed his hands from his eyes and said softly, "Black Devil! Aldrich sold all the spies he knew about in the Soviet Union to the KGB, receiving two million US Dollars as payment in one fell swoop. Only Black Devil could offer such a high price, only Black Devil!"

Brian took a deep breath, then started laughing, but his laughter was filled with sorrow.

Brian muttered to himself, "Yes, a handsome sum of two million US Dollars, only Black Devil had the authority to offer such a price. How foolish I must have been to believe my intelligence was worth two million US Dollars! Black Devil! Black Devil..."