Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was in his office flipping through a pile of papers that his secretary had just sent in. Since 1967 www.biquge.info as chairman of the National Security Council (KGB), Andropov has been transforming the world's most famous intelligence agency in his own way. Although the KGB under his leadership had as many as 700,000 employees and an equal number of spies, the KGB, with its large number of personnel, was the most efficient government department in the entire Soviet Union.

Andropov's office, although large, was unpretentious, and there were no fine paintings to be seen, except for the portraits of the necessary General Secretary of the CPSU Brezhnev, as well as Lenin and Stalin. There is no resplendent decoration here, just plain wallpaper on the walls, and even the furniture is ordinary. Andropov's desk was piled high with papers, and he had five telephones, one red and four black. The red one was used to contact the Supreme Leader, General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, and several others also had their own uses.

As he grew older, Andropov began to suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, a bad heart, intestinal diseases, arthritis and gout, and long-term kidney disease. His wife, Tatyana Filippovna, had specifically instructed his secretary to remind him to take a break every half hour of work.

The half-hour was fast approaching, and Andropov's secretary, Lyudmila, walked into Andropov's office, and Andropov was an easy-going man, whom many people commented on as a cultured man with a scholarly demeanor. He wasn't going to be furious when his secretary suddenly broke into his office. Therefore, as long as the work requires, Lyudmila can enter his office without asking for instructions.

Andropov glanced up at Lyudmila and, knowing that it was probably time, picked up a document and walked to the couch. Lyudmila hurriedly reminded: "Mr. President, you need to rest more. ”

"I know Lyudmila, just for a while!" Andropov smiled at Lyudmila's kind reminder. Lyudmila reluctantly turned away and closed the office door from the outside. Andropov sat down on the couch in a comfortable position and continued to look through the documents in his hands. This is a document escalated by the person who carried out the Eagle Project. Project Eagle is a top-secret program within the KGB. The main content was to select young KGB cadres who were politically innocent and had ordinary family ties to the local authorities to secretly investigate the corruption of local officials. Andropov arranged for his cronies to carry out this plan in secret. Unlike most of the current Soviet officials, Andropov was an honest and strict self-disciplined person, and he was always strict with his family and himself, and did not seek privileges or personal gain. As the head of the intelligence service, he is well aware that corruption and the privileged are corrupting the country. Although the general secretary of the CPSU, Leonid Brezhnev, was not impressed, Andropov hoped that this situation would change.

As the plan continued to deepen, some reports were successively compiled to the KGB headquarters, and under the general atmosphere of the entire officialdom, the work of these cadres sent out was generally not good. And the support that the KGB headquarters can give to these guys is also limited, because this plan does not correspond to the ideas of the general secretary of the CPSU, Leonid Brezhnev, it is only the personal will of Andropov, who is like a farmer who scatters these seeds into the field, hoping that one day some of them will bear fruit.

Andropov flipped through the thick report casually, this report was the progress of the Eagle Project in the past week, when he turned to the page of Gorky City, his quick turning hand stopped, this is a report to his immediate boss, the evidence listed above is very detailed, Andropov knows very well, the report that can be handed over to him, naturally will not be unverified. But what really caught his attention was that the information was so detailed, as if the reporter had seen it with his own eyes. Having worked in intelligence for so many years, Andropov knew very well in his heart how difficult it was. Andropov glanced again at the name of the reporter, Alexei Alekseevich Chernenko, and Andropov remembered this person. Andropov had an amazing memory and did not forget anything he wanted to remember. It seems that these young people do have the ability to investigate in such detail.

Looking at the sums of money in the report, Andropov felt a wave of anger in his heart, General Secretary Brezhnev was too tolerant of corrupt officials, who received Soviet salaries, but privately used their power to make a fortune, and even defected to the enemies of the Soviet Union. Every sum of money in this is a huge amount of money for ordinary people, and Andropov's own salary is only 1200 rubles, which is not even enough for a meal for these guys. These guys must be given a little color, and the results of their painstaking investigation cannot just be stored in the KGB archives and wait for the ashes. He wrote a line on the report, "Give first-class help if necessary, otherwise continue to wait and see."

Andropov returned to his desk and first dialed the phone of his secretary Lyudmila, in which he instructed: "Lyudmila, give me information on a person, his name is Alexei Alekseevich Chernenko, originally from the Leningrad Bureau, and now he is sent to the city of Gorky. ”

Lyudmila was so efficient that in almost less than five minutes a detailed report was placed in front of Andropov. It contains a detailed list of all the information from Chernenko from primary school to university and after joining the workforce, as well as a detailed family list.

Andropov looked at this information, Chernenko's resume was very simple, he had excellent grades since childhood, and finally was admitted to the law faculty of Leningrad University. After graduation, he participated in a one-year training in the KGB, and then successfully joined the Leningrad branch of the KGB. If he hadn't joined the KGB, I'm afraid his life would have been boring. Just like an ordinary person, he is busy living his life. Andropov said to himself: "Let's see what kind of surprise you can bring me, little one." ”

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At the same time, Alexei Alekseevich Chernenko sat at his desk and looked at the first thing that the two mysterious figures gave him to do, the information on the several cases of wounding.