Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Oh, the sign of a man's true maturity is marriage. I'm glad, Ronald. You have the appearance of a traditional New England upper class."

After getting George's promise, Ronald and Diane flew to Washington, DC. Requesting fair legal and public opinion treatment from the first family.

Unfortunately, the president had important matters to attend to today, and was discussing national affairs with National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Ronald happened to be entertained by the first lady Barbara in the White House with his new wife Diane.

Barbara is a traditional woman from a traditional blue-blooded aristocratic family. She values ​​the importance of family members the most. Ronald and Diane's marriage made her think much more highly of Ronald, at least she is no longer like the former first lady Nancy, who relied on an extramarital affair with a man to get to the top.

"I heard that you invited the former president and his wife to give a speech in your hometown?" Barbara's thoughts turned to the various jealousies of Nancy when she was the first lady, and then looked at Ronald.

"Yes, Madam President, Stanton is the only district in New York State that voted for President George during the election. We are working hard to spread the values ​​of the Party there. We hope that in the next election, New York State can vote for President George. I hope that when Madam President is convenient, she can also go to Staten Island to meet the voters who want to meet you there."

"Very good, there are not too many young people like you now." Barbara was confused by Ronald's clever change of subject and expressed satisfaction with Ronald. However, she would not go to a rural place like Staten Island.

After dinner, Diane went to talk to George's wife Laura. Barbara waved to Ronald and asked him to go to the side hall to talk.

"I heard that you have encountered some troubles?" Barbara looked very stern under the light with her white hair.

Before and after the election, the people who catered to the president and his wife were completely different. Ronald asked her eldest son to get an opportunity to face him and tell him about the grievances he had suffered. Barbara also treated Ronald specially because of his great contribution in the election campaign.

Ronald briefly talked about how he was wiretapped and the media was suppressed and did not report his situation. "Madam President, I am not angry because I was wiretapped, but this blatant violation of the law and public morality happened to me, and I have no way to seek justice. This is not the spirit of America."

Barbara listened carefully and motioned Ronald to continue.

"Moreover, the most hateful thing is that they also wiretapped the hotel room where Diane and I stayed during our honeymoon. This is really too harsh for a newly married woman. I want justice for my wife."

"Don't worry, I will talk to George about this when he comes back. It's just too much. There are too many bad people in Hollywood." Barbara was satisfied when she heard Ronald defend his wife like this.

"Uh..." Ronald, who played the wife card, heard this and wondered if Barbara scolded him as well. She still had a deep grudge against Nancy, who came from Hollywood.

"Hi, Honey, which guest is coming today?" The president's voice sounded outside the door. He had just finished his official duties, and his assistant reminded him that his wife had hosted an old friend at the White House and invited him to come over.

"George, it's Ronald and his new wife."

"Aha, it's Ronald, I'm so happy, is this your new wife? What a happy young couple, it reminds me of the happy times when Barbara and I just got married."

Old George was in a good mood. Some things that happened in the White House today made him very annoyed. Coming back to see Ronald Jr. and his new wife who had helped him brought him back some family happiness.

The President's time is precious. After listening to Ronald's story, he asked directly, "Tell me, Ronald, what do you need me to do for you?"

"...I don't have the idea of ​​asking for special treatment, I just need a fair environment, whether it is the rule of law or the freedom of the press. The wisdom of the President must have thought of it. Now in Hollywood and the press, many Jewish people are in groups, and I have been bullied by them."

Ronald made two requests. The first is to exert some influence to let the FBI intervene in this wiretapping case and expose the mastermind behind the scenes. Second, when he launched a counterattack in the media, he could also support him at an appropriate time.

"Ronald, I can't interfere with the freedom of the press..." George said with a smile after listening to the two requests. As the President of America, he was thankful not to be attacked by the news media. He is not a communicator like Ronald, who is born to get along with reporters. Although he has not been pursued hard since he took office, in some things, reporters attending the White House press conference have resumed the habit of making things difficult for the spokesperson.

"If my people ask relevant questions at the press conference...", Ronald asked.

"He will get a fair answer..." Old George smiled, it was not a problem to play a double act like this.

"By the way, did the wiretapping suspect participate in the wiretapping in states other than California? You know that the FBI investigation must also be conducted in accordance with the law." Old George thought of another thing, he was afraid that Ronald, an artist, did not understand the law.

"Although he didn't leave California, this matter involves the CIA's decommissioned listening equipment. My lawyer told me that the FBI can also intervene in the investigation for counterintelligence matters..." Ronald came prepared.

"Oh? What exactly happened?" Old George suddenly felt something in his heart when he heard this.

What he was talking about today with National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft was the matter of eavesdropping technology.

The story begins a few years ago, when an intelligence analyst named Jonathan Pollard (or his Israeli name, Jonah) sold all the signal intelligence information obtained by all American intelligence agencies to Israel.

Signals intelligence refers to the general term for the image intelligence obtained through technical means, eavesdropping on telephone calls, intercepting secret messages, cracking passwords, or obtaining through satellites and reconnaissance aircraft. This Pollard is very harmful. The intelligence he sells includes the training, technology, and management processes of more than a dozen intelligence agencies in America. This means that all of America's core intelligence and technical means are one-way transparent to Israel.

In 1986, Pollard was convicted of stealing U.S. signal intelligence technical information and was sentenced to life imprisonment. His wife Anne was also sentenced to five years in prison.

For this reason, Israel mobilized a large amount of power to carry out lobbying activities, hoping to exchange American spies arrested in Israel, or to conduct a three-way exchange with the Soviet Union, but all were rejected.

More than three years later, Pollard's wife was released on bail due to medical reasons, and the call for Pollard's rescue began again. He appealed in prison, and there were also many Jewish parliamentarians and social figures who hoped that he could be released and return to Israel, the country he had helped.

This aroused the anger of mainstream politicians, who are mainly white people. These Jews, living in great America, always have Israel in mind. Who is their motherland? When the interests of the two countries diverge, which country will they love?

Cheney, the Secretary of Defense in George Sr.'s cabinet, even told the media that this man's harm to America's national security far exceeded what was revealed, and that he should sit in jail until he died.

Even Rumsfeld, an expert from an opposition think tank who once competed with George Sr. for candidacy and served as the special envoy of the General Secretary, told the news media that this person will not be paroled, otherwise he will cause great harm to the Cold War and other national security.

However, even so, there are still many Jewish forces in the United States running for Pollard's release. The most exaggerated thing is the media industry. Major newspapers have reported that Pollard was still sentenced to life imprisonment even after confessing all the crimes. This was an obvious fishing strategy by the prosecutor...

A political science professor and Orthodox Jewish activist named David Luchins is also organizing more prominent Jewish figures to sign a petition calling for Pollard's release.

For a time, the question of whether the Jews were traitors to America began to arise in the minds of a large number of people at the bottom, and the overall anti-Semitic sentiment increased significantly.

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"This matter is just for Webster to handle..." The commander-in-chief, Old George, saw an opportunity to use this matter to carry out political operations.

In 1987, the former commander-in-chief carried out the last important personnel reshuffle. Former FBI Director William Webster was appointed as the new head of the CIA. His position in the FBI is held by William Sessions, a conservative and chief judge of the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas.

These two positions are nominated by the commander-in-chief and generally will not be replaced without special reasons. So after George Sr. took office, they still held their original positions.

However, things are unpredictable. The new FBI Director William Sessions, who was originally considered a conservative member of the Elephant Party, became very close to the liberals of the Donkey Party in the Senate after taking office. He advocated that the FBI should be impartial, promoted many female and minority officials, and made the traditional "old boys" at the top of the FBI angry.

Since George Sr. took office, he has violated the will of the commander-in-chief and the party several times and failed to support the investigation led by the Xiang Party.

Old George had long wanted to give this fool a warning. Just when Ronald's case came to his door this time, he asked Webster, the current head of the CIA, to contact his old department in the FBI to give Sessions a shocking education.

The next day, at the national security meeting held by the Grand Commander, CIA director Webster specifically raised the situation of Pollard's appeal. reiterated the immeasurable damage his betrayal had caused to the intelligence community.

The type of eavesdropping device used in Luo Jian's eavesdropping case was used as an example by Webster. The theft of technical data allowed the Israeli intelligence agency to copy it and then sell it to intelligence brokers in various countries under the name of civilian use, including Cold War rivals...

"And the FBI agents actually said that this matter did not involve national security and did not file a case for review? When I was the director of the government, they could at least read through the training materials and understand the scope of the FBI's powers..."

CIA Director Webster's cynicism made the FBI Director feel extremely embarrassed. In the end, the commander-in-chief calmed him down and asked him to immediately arrange personnel to investigate and not to let go of any clues that could endanger national security.

Sessions' embarrassment returned to the game and turned into boundless anger.

He scolded the director of the Los Angeles branch, and rejected his subordinates' idea of ​​setting up an investigation team immediately, telling them to get out of the way and stop embarrassing himself. Next, with a stroke of his pen, Sessions transferred Claire, the most capable and capable female detective in the New York Bureau and his favorite, to Los Angeles and asked her to lead the investigation.

"This is the key evidence in this case. Please sign for all the documents of the wiretap." In the New York branch, Claire obtained the documents sent by the CIA with great efficiency, including some documents from the previous Pola In the German trial, there is no public part.

"Thank you for your help and cooperation..." Claire quickly signed the documents. She and a male subordinate, carrying various documents, took the bureau's plane and rushed to Los Angeles.

…

"Very good, the evidence here is well preserved..."

When she arrived at the Beverly Police Station, the first thing FBI Detective Claire did was to retrieve the most important evidence, the wiretap. After quickly taking over the evidence, she asked the technical experts who came with her to verify that it was completely correct. It is the special design style of CIA.

"This is a member of your joint investigation team, Inspector Claire. Now this case belongs to you." Chief John of the Beverly Hills Police Department also knew about the change. Now he is eager for someone to take this hot case. Yam took it over.

"Very well, let's interrogate Craig Stevens." Claire, wearing a jacket with bright yellow FBI letters on the back, arranged the work for several elite soldiers seconded to them by the Beverly Police Department.

The FBI generally does not have many manpower, so for this kind of case it will absorb some local forces to form a joint investigation team. These people are temporarily under the command of the FBI.

"Yes..." Two police elites, two men and one woman, wearing white vests with the words "FBI Joint Investigation Team" on them, quickly prepared for interrogation.

"Craig Stevens? I'm Detective Claire from the FBI's New York Bureau... I'm here on assignment from the FBI. I'm here specifically to ask you some questions..." the female detective said calmly. The suspect looked at her ID, then smiled and added:

"I know there are some things you didn't tell the previous interrogators. Now, do you have anything to add?"

"I..." Looking at the words "FBI" on the other person's body, the big beads of sweat on Craig Stevens' forehead suddenly began to flow. Why did you summon people from FBI headquarters again? This time it's not the Los Angeles branch that the boss behind him is familiar with...

The chain reaction started immediately.

The news that Craig Stevens was being interrogated by FBI headquarters was soon known to Anthony Pellicano, a powerful private detective who hired him. Pellicano has always been the first choice for powerful people in Hollywood to settle things. After he learned about it, he also knew that something was wrong and called his client.

After several transmissions, the news reached Michael Ovitz again. By the time he knew it, it was already night.

"What's going on? Why are there federal-level forces involved?" Ovitz was also a little frightened. If an investigation of this level were directed at him, it would be difficult to handle it. He immediately called the old Jewish men hiding behind his back.

"What's the matter with you kid? Pollard, who we are trying our best to rescue, is now involved in this matter... Now anti-Semitic sentiment has begun to stir up trouble again, and we also have many opponents here who are staring at us... That kid named Ronald, didn’t you say he didn’t have any high-level connections?”

"How do I know?" Ovitz felt extremely aggrieved. I carefully watched the inauguration ceremony of the Commander-in-Chief frame by frame. The rumors that Ronald and the Commander-in-Chief were on good terms were simply nonsense.

"I think he has joined forces with some anti-Semitic forces. He even said something dissatisfied with the Jews when he was here..."

Ovitz thought for a long time, how could Ronald have such strength. It must have been Pollard's appeal that aroused the solidarity of those anti-Semitic white people. They used Ronald's wiretapping case to cause a big wave and cut off the Jewish homeland's efforts to rescue Pollard.

"Call these people, I want to inform them of the situation." Ovitz asked his secretary to call the high-ranking Jews in Hollywood. This time, he wanted to make Ronald's true anti-Semitism known to the public...

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"I'm going to stay in New York for a few days to prepare for some media matters." Ronald stroked Diane's hair twice. This time she was going back to Los Angeles first. Ronald still has to sit in New York and see how the situation unfolds to launch a media counterattack on the wiretapping case.

"Okay, Ronnie, remember to come back. Don't stay in New York for too long." Diane kissed Ronald and got on the gangway of the business jet.

"Hi..." Ronald knew that Diane's implication was not to stay with Helen for too long and forget about his real wife, so he had to wave goodbye to Diane.

"Ronald, Michael Douglas wants you to call him back."

Back at the apartment on Fifth Avenue, before Ronald could call Helen, Richard hurried over, "Michael said it was important."

"Hey, Michael, are you looking for me?" Ronald had no choice but to call back Michael Douglas, the actor he got along well with.

"Ronald, are we friends? Okay... As a friend, I ask you to tell me the truth. Do you have any views on Jews?"

"What do you think? You Jews are excellent actors. I have worked with many Jewish actors and screenwriters. My most successful movie, Dirty Dancing, is about Jews..."

"I believe you..." Michael Douglas did not believe the rumors he heard from his father. How could Ronald be anti-Semitic?

"But now there is a rumor in the Jewish circle in Hollywood that you are a hidden anti-Semite."

"I don't know who is making up rumors about me. I definitely don't mean to be anti-Semitic. Wait, is Ovitz saying this?"

"Yes, he said that when you were face to face with him, you said a lot of things that you didn't like about Jews." Michael Douglas admitted frankly that it was Ovitz who spread the rumors. "If you are not anti-Semitic... I believe you don't have such thoughts... You have to take action. This rumor is very troublesome..."

"You know what, Michael..." Ronald raised his voice an octave, "I hate Ovitz. Nothing he says is true."