Meanwhile, a letter of appointment arrived together with the news in the hands of the man known as Hawk Eyes on an island somewhere in the Grand Line.
When it came to intelligence work, no force in the world could compare to the Revolutionary Army now. No one could even catch a glimpse of the Revolutionary Army's heels.
The reason lay in the integration of channels.
The Revolutionary Army's intelligence sources were quite complicated, but broadly speaking, they fell into three major categories.
First were the Revolutionary Army branches originally scattered across the world. The Revolutionary Army had already established an extremely comprehensive intelligence network spanning every corner of the world.
The second was the Revolutionary Army's own spy organization. This organization focused on gathering intelligence and did not deal with those Revolutionary Army branches. Their intelligence networks intertwined, but the spy organization was better at collecting information from the middle and upper levels. What they gathered was often high-level intelligence inaccessible in rural areas and among the ordinary people.
This intelligence first entered Revolutionary Army headquarters, then was sorted by region before finally being delivered into the hands of the local Revolutionary Army leaders.
Through the interplay of these two systems, the local Revolutionary Army was always one step ahead of the local military in intelligence, possessing tremendous mobility and intelligence capabilities. Of course, this also benefited from the Revolutionary Army's central leadership processing information so quickly.
The final channel was the aggregation of intelligence through newspapers. Morgans, for instance, could communicate with News Birds, and these News Birds could easily cross oceans and travel throughout the world. Moreover, these News Birds possessed sentience and intelligence.
They might not recognize much else, but they knew exactly where those intimidating big shots were. Hawk Eyes, for example, had dedicated News