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Did the river-plunge accident encountered by Reese, deputy director of the CIA's Tokyo Station in Japan, look like a traffic accident?

It looked exactly like one!

But the veteran CIA agents did not believe it was an accident at all!

Unfortunately, none of those veteran CIA agents were willing to voice the answer, because speaking it aloud might mean bearing the consequences.

For example, what if Director Herbert assigned them to investigate Deputy Director Reese's river-plunge accident?

Faced with everyone's silence, Herbert was filled with helplessness.

Even though Herbert was the director of the CIA's Tokyo Station, he could not do whatever he pleased within the station.

At the very least, the other deputy director, the intelligence chief, the operations chief, and the head of the Xia Kingdom Intelligence Section were all willing to accept assignments but not verbal orders.

So-called "accepting assignments but not verbal orders" meant this: if Herbert arranged for them to investigate Deputy Director Reese's river-plunge accident through a written document, they would carry it out.

However, if it was merely a verbal order issued in a classified conference room, they definitely would not pay it any mind.

After all, meetings in classified conference rooms had no minutes or corresponding records, leaving only unsubstantiated verbal claims.

To avoid unforeseen trouble, the senior personnel at the CIA's Tokyo Station all adopted an attitude of accepting assignments but not verbal orders.

If Director Herbert wanted them to carry out an investigative order, it was simple—he could issue a written order. Otherwise, they would not cooperate.

In the end, Herbert once again put pressure directly on Anthony, Reese's executive assistant.

"Anthony, I'm assigning this matter to you." Herbert did not ask Anthony for his opinion at all. He directly issued the order.

Anthony understood that this was a matter