Storms always came suddenly.
Under the joint operation of the Ministry of Public Security and the General Staff, multiple spy organizations lurking within Hua Nation were uprooted. A total of 67 intelligence documents that had not yet been transmitted were intercepted, and more than two hundred leaked intelligence items were traced.
Based on the lists confessed by those involved and clues obtained from decrypted espionage documents, nearly all the criminals, from the highest ranks to the grassroots, were apprehended. The officials implicated in the case also fell one after another.
Unlike other crimes, treason had always been the most sensitive high-voltage line. There was absolutely no room for compromise before that red line.
At the same time, CIA headquarters on the other side of the Pacific Ocean was also unwillingly drawn into this Thunder operation sweeping across Hua Nation, throwing the place into chaos.
The timing and speed of this arrest operation targeting foreign intelligence personnel in Hua Nation had both caught CIA intelligence experts and senior decision-makers completely off guard.
It was not as though they had never considered the possibility of a leak, nor had they failed to prepare emergency contingency plans. It was simply that, at this moment, all of it seemed to have lost its effect.
They had no idea when this great net had been cast around their necks. Even when it began tightening, they had not sensed anything unusual at all.
They could not even determine whether the intelligence they had received during this period had truly been sent through their channels, or whether Hua Nation's General Staff had deliberately let them see it.
No matter what, their defeat in this disastrous operation had been inevitable from the very beginning.
The losses caused by it alone nearly exceeded the total losses the CIA had