Rise of the Argentine Empire

Harvard is a stronghold of the American Democratic Party and a base for liberals. When Saint-Hesse first arrived here, they were not enthusiastic about Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower becoming president, but recently the wind seems to have shifted.

Some students on the Harvard campus seem to have taken action, holding banners and shouting, "We support Ike, we end the war."

Ike is Eisenhower's nickname.

This made Saint-Hesse feel a little amused; it was a direct attack on the home base.

The recent political activities in the United States have really opened Saint-Hesse's eyes and dazzled him.

In the fierce election campaign, his supporters took advantage of the public's worship of "heroes."

They kept publicizing his "great achievements" in World War II, and his promise to voters to end the Korean War was also very attractive to voters.

Moreover, during the election cycle, Eisenhower visited more than 40 states in succession, delivered more than 200 speeches, and traveled more than 80,000 kilometers by plane, train, and ship, which is equivalent to circling the earth twice, yes, two real circles.

Eisenhower's speech level has slowly improved, and he is very capable of mobilizing the emotions of the people.

Even Saint-Hesse himself felt that this guy was indeed very suitable to be the President of the United States, and the Americans needed such a "hero" president.

Eisenhower's backing from several super consortiums was also a boost to him.

Eisenhower himself was of excellent quality. Unexpectedly, he also had a good eloquence and a particularly clean background. He was a genuine American elite talent. The bigwigs in the Republican Party fully supported him, and after the change of political views, he was particularly attractive to the votes of the people at the bottom.

Americans are now very dissatisfied with the failed Korean War. Now Eisenhower's approval rating has been rising all the way, surpassing Ailed. It seems that there is only the last kick left. Who will win will be seen next week.

November 1st, Boston Manor,

"Guerrero, who do you think will be the next President of the United States? The results will be out in a few days."

Guerrero has been coordinating in Boston recently and has not left, initially building the intelligence framework on the American side.

"Boss, you are making things difficult for me, but I think Eisenhower is very powerful. The newspapers are full of boasting about him, almost all of them, and his opponents have a lot of smears against him. Of course, until the last moment, it is not certain who will be the president."

"Yes, I am also looking forward to knowing who will be the next President of the United States."

Saint-Hesse took a sip of coffee, looked at the snow scene outside the window, and his mind was a little uneasy.

Compared with the United States, Argentina's presidential election last year was like a family affair.

The United States is now in the strongest stage of central centralization since its founding. From Roosevelt to Truman, Roosevelt turned the weak elected president of the United States into an emperor-style president.

Truman and the future Eisenhower are the same, because they have mastered a sharp sword, the Central Intelligence Agency.

At this time, the CIA is truly full of masters, with great magical powers. The joining of Harvard professors is actually one of the reasons for the CIA's strength. In addition, there are professors and think tanks from Columbia University, who have made indelible contributions to the development of the CIA.

These two universities are actually the two universities that former US President Roosevelt studied at. They were once recruited by Roosevelt to form a think tank and formulated the meritorious "Roosevelt New Deal." Later, World War II and the Cold War both had the figures of Harvard and Columbia, which can be regarded as a merit from the dragon.

Now why is the CIA so powerful? In addition to Harvard, Columbia, and the national elite talent reserve, the supreme position, they are also very rich, super rich.

The specific appropriation data of the CIA has now been classified as top secret. The last time the financial budget was announced was in 1946, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Group.

Their annual budget is 22 million US dollars, which is terribly high. In 1946, the US Central Intelligence Group had more than 2,000 people. Now it is estimated that it is not impossible to have more than 10,000 people. The specific number is estimated that only the US President knows.

The wealth of the CIA can be inferred from the Marshall Plan on the surface. In 1948, the CIA established overseas offices. In 1948, the Marshall Plan was passed by Congress, with a total plan of 13.7 billion US dollars.

The CIA's overseas offices can extract 5% of these funds for secret intelligence work, which means that at least 600 million US dollars flow into the CIA. With these funds, the CIA can spend a lot of money to buy intelligence and train spies.

The Italian Socialist Party was actually brought down by the CIA. The CIA manipulated the 1948 Italian election with briefcases of US dollars. The CIA spent at least 10 million US dollars for this, and since then Italy has completely leaned towards the United States instead of the Soviets.

"In addition to thick stacks of cash, the black briefcase also contains full of friendship and trust, plus a little bit of both soft and hard tactics · · · · · ·"

In fact, the Buda think tank in Argentina is learning from Roosevelt, but they have not learned the essence. In the final analysis, it is because Argentina is too poor now. When there is no money, even doing intelligence work becomes a luxury. Fortunately, Saint-Hesse has enough money to support these intelligence work.

In fact, Saint-Hesse's Falcon Intelligence Bureau is also a bit stingy. This year, the Falcon Bureau's budget is only 2 million US dollars, which is actually very much. It may have exceeded the budget of the National Intelligence Agency of the Argentine official agency. It seems that Bilon is more stingy than Saint-Hesse.

The current number of members of the Falcon Bureau has reached more than 200 people. The development in the past year has been quite good. If this futures speculation is successful, Saint-Hesse plans to continue to expand the scale and quality of the Falcon Bureau next year.

Among these 200 people, the real core is actually relatively small, but the New Youth League, a student organization, has also been brewing well and can become an important source for him to recruit people. Saint-Hesse is still a little struggling with large-scale plans, and he also needs his own think tank.

"Maybe it's possible, as long as this trip to the United States goes smoothly."

If the onion futures can be speculated well, and then the money is invested in emerging American companies, basically this money will be endless.

Taking out 8 million US dollars in funding for the Falcon Bureau, the future return is also generous. This is necessary to protect assets, but it must be developed faster and better.

The annual profit of the Condor Tobacco Factory is actually enough to support the Falcon Bureau and several security companies.

This is not just an investment without output.

Argentina does not have the strong national backing of the United States, and safety must come first in everything.

Even American consortia are helpless when they encounter countries like Libya that do not talk about martial arts. International investment has huge risks.

Saint-Hesse tries to only invest in countries with sound systems and minimize risks.

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November 6, 1952, San Francisco, in the second round of congressional voting,

With 442 electoral votes to 89, he was elected by a landslide, bringing the Republican Party back to the White House after 20 years.

Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower received a total of 34,075,529 votes, accounting for 55.2%, while Democrat Adlai Stevenson received 27,375,090 votes, accounting for 44.3%.

This year, 62-year-old Eisenhower won the US presidential election, becoming the 34th President of the United States.

39-year-old Nixon became the Vice President of the United States.

For Americans, it was a festive day.

For Saint Hesser, this day was unremarkable. He had been in the United States for more than two months and was ready to make his move.

Of course, he was also relieved, as the next eight years would be pretty stable.

The Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat, returning to its Southern base, while the Republican Party continued to control Pennsylvania and New York.

Stevenson even lost his home state of Illinois, whose capital is Chicago.

For the Democratic Party, things were about to get even worse, with even Truman losing his temper several times, but it was already impossible to reverse the defeat.

… …

In addition to the intelligence situation, Saint Hesser also discovered something interesting at Harvard: the importance and research that Americans placed on the Soviet Union.

After all, the person who often understands you best is your enemy, and the Soviets were the great enemy of the Americans.

Harvard established the Soviet Research Institute last year, one of five university-based Soviet research institutes in the country. The first Soviet Research Institute in the United States was established at Columbia University with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.

This greatly increased the safety of Saint Hesser's activities, as the Soviets were the great enemy of the United States.

To be honest, Argentina's biggest enemy is not the British or the Brazilians, but the Americans. Saint Hesser is also trying to pry into this most powerful "New Roman" empire in global history, which requires a clear understanding.

After World War II, American research on the Soviet Union developed rapidly. After all, Stalin knew about the Manhattan Project earlier than Truman, which made the Truman administration determined to understand the Soviets. Therefore, with the support of the US Treasury, a large number of research funds and research institutions were established.

American research on the Soviet Union is mainly divided into official, semi-official, and university research institutes.

The official one is the Central Intelligence Agency, and the semi-official one is mainly the well-known RAND Corporation in later generations, which mainly conducts research on Soviet policy.

University research institutes mainly focus on the study of Soviet politics, military affairs, economy, and society.

… …

The power of American consortia lies in their ability to manipulate American politics. In the next few years, Morgan will also face new challenges.

Fortunately, Saint Hesser is not trying to confront them, otherwise he would definitely be crushed to death. His small frame is not enough to fill their teeth, even the power of new consortia like those in California and Texas is very strong.

Starting in the second half of 1952, the price of American onion futures contracts began to rise continuously due to hoarding by several large onion growers.

Other agricultural futures remained stable. Saint Hesser, like a cautious hunter, secretly stirred up trouble in the futures market.

The Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were Saint Hesser's main battlefields. This speculation in agricultural futures was also a matter of taking advantage of the situation to earn a little pocket money.

In the United States, the futures market originated in Chicago. Chicago is located in the center of the North American continent and is an important transportation hub connecting the eastern and western United States.

Saint Hesser's agricultural futures contracts quickly began to take off, rising all the way from $12 million.

In less than a week.

It became $27 million.

He spent 2 months laying out the plan and earned $15 million in net profit.

"Sean, arrange to sell these contracts."

"Boss, it will continue to rise. Do you really want to sell?"

Sean asked with some doubts. The onion futures situation was excellent, and in his opinion, doubling again was not a problem.

Chicago onion merchants Sam and Wicksen successfully manipulated the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's onion futures market by hoarding large quantities of goods.

The small onion was used in a big way, and they made about 5 million US dollars through this little gadget.

Saint Hesser followed behind and drank a little soup.

The onion futures that Saint Hesser bought were worth about 1 million US dollars, but as the price of onions soared and the prices of other agricultural futures also began to rise, he also made a fortune.

"One shouldn't be too greedy."

"Okay, boss."

"Sell in batches, don't rush."

"Understood, boss."

In fact, he could have earned at least another 4 million US dollars if he had continued, but Saint Hesser was not greedy and calmly sold the onion contracts.

The onion futures market had already gone crazy, and even the several onion growers who were manipulating the market began to be blindly optimistic.

The orders they had on hand were much larger than Saint Hesser's.

Sure enough, it rose another twelve percent.

Sean was heartbroken, but still sold the contracts, which were quickly snapped up by others.

The market was already crazy. Everyone felt that it would continue to rise, just like the cotton and tulips in the Netherlands back then.

Onion contracts had already deviated from their original value, and speculation was very easy. Saint Hesser didn't even need public opinion, he just needed to follow along and pick up money.

Sequoia Capital couldn't earn 10 million US dollars in 2 years, and that was because Saint Hesser kept investing money into it.

As a result, Saint Hesser did it in 2 months, and even made more.

Seeing that the money had arrived, Saint Hesser instructed again.

"After selling, prepare to short."

In the near future, the American futures and stock markets are likely to be in a downward channel, and Saint Hesser plans to short them and make another fortune.

"Boss, are you crazy? The market is so good now, shorting?"

Sean didn't understand. The United States had a new president, the war had stopped, shorting was crazy, he should go long.

"Yes, go and do it."

"Okay, boss, it's your money anyway."

Although Sean didn't understand, he still honestly went to do it.

Martin Herrmann graduated from Harvard Business School and was personally recruited by Saint Hesser. He is a talented investor discovered by New Sequoia Investment, with 5 years of experience in the industry, and previously worked at Goldman Sachs.

This time, the trading team recruited this talented employee with a high annual salary of 29,000 US dollars, and currently serves as the Deputy General Manager of Sequoia Investment.

Sequoia Investment is now divided into Blackstone Investment and Sequoia Investment. Blackstone Investment's funds come from the capital that Saint Hesser spun off, with a fund size of 17 million US dollars.

New Sequoia has opened financial management and high-end investment projects, with an asset size of 20 million US dollars, coming from some wealthy people.

"Boss, does our Blackstone Investment have to invest in so many small companies?"

Martin was a little confused. Sequoia Investment used to invest in large companies, but now it has switched to small companies. Blackstone is also a part of Sequoia. Sequoia is gradually selling off the stocks of large companies and also switching to small companies.

Saint Hesser personally sorted out a report on new companies and planned to make venture capital investments. There were as many as dozens of newly established small companies that were less than 5 years old.

"Yes, Martin, you organize a negotiation team to acquire shares."