Chapter 83 The CIA and the Military Intelligence Agency
If the former government was just a simple ruling institution, then the current government should be regarded as a multi-functional service organization, political, diplomatic, military, science and technology, people's livelihood and so on. In order to ensure the long-term peace and stability of the German Federal State, through Adrian's repeated deliberations, the Ministry of State Security was divided into five branches, namely the Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Military Intelligence Service, the Science and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of State Security, and the Federal Secret Service. Among them, the FBI is located at 28 Kurtürferstrasse in Berlin, commonly known as No. 28 internally.
Before the start of the Paris operation, the Minister of National Security, Hans Kluger, had persuaded Adrian to transfer the presidential palace to the Hansafelt Palace, which was surrounded by the river on three sides, and was tightly surrounded by the River Spree and Hanseasa Square, which was relatively service, confidential and secure. Adrian listened to Chancellor Stresemann and Vice President Hindenburg respectively, and decided to make it the presidential palace.
As a security expert, Hans Kluger's suggestion has some truth in using Bellevue Palace, just east of the presidential palace, as the headquarters of the Secret Service. Five kilometres further east along the river is the Chancellery in Stresemann, just across the street from the Reichstag.
During the establishment of this special functional department of the Ministry of State Security, Prime Minister Stresemann raised some objections, arguing that the establishment of the Ministry of State Security was too cumbersome, and that the CIA and the Military Intelligence Agency were almost identical, but the addition of new sub-agencies would increase the country's financial expenditures and even create a situation of overstaffing. Of course, Stresemann's opinion is not completely unreasonable; according to incomplete statistics, the total number of personnel in the Ministry of State Security's Investigation Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, and Secret Service is as high as 90,000, and the number of personnel in the remaining Federal Intelligence Service and the Federal Military Intelligence Agency is probably not accurate even for Stresemann, the country's prime minister.
The predecessor of the CIA was the Ghost Group, which was Adrian's descendant. The Scorpion Group is a monster created by the compromise between Adrian and William II, and the two have similar functions, but they have different means of dealing with affairs. Although the intelligence agencies are huge, they do not spend much government spending, and a considerable number of people appear abroad as government employees, corporate executives, and even hostile countries, and they are the doves released by the German Confederation and the goshawks everywhere in the world, and only they can accomplish the tasks that politics and diplomacy, war and protest cannot do.
What annoys Stresemann the most is not the problem of personnel, which shows that there is a deviation in his understanding of the functions of various agencies, the functions of the Federal Intelligence Agency and the Federal Military Intelligence Agency are completely different, the Federal Intelligence Agency was established as the main body of the former Ghost Bureau, which is a situation agency that has risen to the national level, while the Federal Military Intelligence Agency is different, he almost exclusively serves the military specialty, and has nothing to do with politics and economics.
President Adrian now wants intelligence and security, and he wants victory in the war on the Western Front, and as for the matter of the heads of various departments in the short term, he has not had time to think about it for the time being, but this war has begun, and he needs these departments to operate quickly. The director of the Ghost Bureau, Colmar von Ramsden, and the leader of the Scorpion Group, Earhart Cecil, have had several head-to-head confrontations over the suppression of domestic riots, and Earhart Cecil is Adrian's biggest headache, and the size of the Scorpion Group is much larger than that of the Ghost Bureau, thanks to the financial support of Wilhelm II, and also because of Adrian's behind-the-scenes promotion. If it weren't for the scorpion's reputation, Adrian would have preferred to reorganize the Scorpion team into the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is responsible for domestic affairs, rather than the Military Intelligence Bureau, which has similar functions but cannot be coordinated in one department. Due to domestic turmoil and external war pressures, Adrian assigned the MIA a mission to be responsible for foreign operations, including intelligence spying, kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and organizing or leading foreign rebels. The tasks of the Federal Intelligence Service are much more modest, responsible for intelligence collection at home and abroad, collating and summarizing intelligence, counter-terrorism, counterespionage, and threat assessment. In this way, the direction of responsibility of the two departments is completely different, and the direction of the general tasks is also different, but Chancellor Stresemann does not seem to be too satisfied. Adrian did not want to explain to anyone at this time, the newly formed government and cabinet had just been formed, and there should have wartime functional departments in wartime, and when the fighting on the Western Front was underway, it was not advisable to delay too much effort in this matter.
At the beginning of Adrian's uprising, both the CIA and the MIA moved their headquarters to Hanover, where the CIA was located at 33 Heinhausen Straße in Hannover, next to the Federal Intelligence Agency, at 34 Heinhausen Straße. The Science and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of State Security was chosen by Adrian in the city of Dresden, and a large area of land was carved out on the banks of the Rabe River.
Why the German Confederation dared to take the initiative to launch a full-front attack on the Entente when the enemy was strong and we were weak was inseparable from the close cooperation with the above-mentioned departments, and the national elites who had long been distributed between Britain, the United States, and France kept transmitting the above-mentioned state secret intelligence and weapons research and development information to Germany, and they gave Adrian and Hoffmann first-hand information about the start of the war switch and the certainty and courage to win in the face of danger"and war reparations to all the Entente powers. In other words, Adrian's rescue pod does not play a long-term role, and the energy consumption will cause it to stop working quickly, while the intelligence agencies can always exist and play a greater role, for example, the assault in the north of the Western Front and the weak offensive in the south benefited from various intelligence sources scattered in France, Britain, and the United States.
The B022 tank group fought bravely, took decisive measures, brilliantly completed the military control of the town near Verdun, and on December 2, once again successfully carried out the reconnaissance mission of the French army's fire prevention on the banks of the Maas River.
Benjamin? Sheridan was very happy, in addition to the normal supplies, all the members of the B022 tank group received a prize directly issued by General Erwin Rommel himself, including clothing, non-staple food, and a lot of canned food.
Priestley has never seen so many good things when he is so old: "Sergeant Major, I want to send these things home, is there any way"
Sheridan also wants to send these rewards home, the war has lasted for so many years, coupled with the turmoil in the country, the economy of Germany, which is not very stable, is currently short of food throughout the country, and the life of the common people is very difficult, these things are undoubtedly a relief for the family: "Of course, we can bring our packages back to Germany through the logistics department, and hand them over to the post and telecommunications department to send to our families, listen, what you have to do now is to make your own items into mail, everyone will learn from my method first, Then write down the detailed address of the home and the recipient clearly. ”
Ralph? Craigie, Toby? Raleigh, Jarvis? Laurie was very enthusiastic and took action together: "In fact, we all have allowances, and there is no shortage of these in the army, at home, not to mention reluctant to eat this thing, even looking at it is rare to see, yes, the family may need it more." So, everyone sent the prizes home as Sheridan had done.