Serov explained his own source of information like this, Marilyn Monroe's diary, as for this diary, who has read it? In addition to Monroe herself, there is only Serov, Monroe is not in the Soviet Union, Serov can completely push this news on that woman, but if she can't do it, she can use money to block that woman's mouth, and if she can't do it, she can only make her disappear.

"Your First General Directorate has worked hard, this time to keep an eye on the movements of the United States, once this kind of action starts, a lot of things that we usually can't see will leak out, see if there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, who is dissatisfied with this clearance activity? Is it possible to help us in turn? None of this is known...... "Serov has a very good relationship with the head of the First Main Directorate, Sakhatowsky, who himself worked in the First Directorate, and is very familiar with the work and ideas of the First Directorate, at least more than Semychasny has a common language with these front-line agents.

"There is also the finding of a few stable and neutral countries to establish our overseas operation channels, I myself am more optimistic about Switzerland, Italy and Greece are also under consideration, although the latter two are not very suitable for the conditions I proposed, but the situation is currently so, the Nordic countries have limited potential and the climate is similar to our Soviet Union, other countries far away from Europe are not culturally the mainstream today, and there are not many stable countries, so we can only relax some conditions." Serov said helplessly, saying that both he and Sakhatowsky knew that it was imperative to build a smooth pipeline overseas.

The transport and shipbuilding industries of Greece, the handicrafts and light industry of Italy, the financial industry and machine-building industries of Switzerland, the KGB had to step in, at least to occupy a place in those countries and establish its own base. There are not many options left for the USSR now, but they are far stronger than they were historically.

After the expulsion of the Greeks from Constantinople by Turkey, there was a great reaction in Greece, and the Greek Communist Party reunited its exiles and returned home, reconciling with the current Greek government, nominally abandoning the line of armed struggle. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just a matter of words to pick it up when you have to.

According to the words of China in the present era, the Communist Party of Greece can be regarded as repaired, and it has gone further than the Soviet Union. However, no one in the Soviet Union knew about this kind of remarks, and the KGB had already blocked all the news from China after requesting the Presidium of the Central Committee, and it was better to be out of sight and out of mind, and to say more, this proposal was strongly supported by Brezhnev, chairman of the Supreme Soviet, and the last thing Brezhnev himself wanted was to live in seclusion and debate the classics, and this proposal of the KGB won his heart......

The current development situation on the Soviet side can by no means be said to be bad, and although there are some not very good trends in agriculture, it is much better than the original history. Moreover, there was a lot more foreign aid, and the grain supply in Sudan and India could help the Soviet Union survive many years of grain failure.

Historically, the Soviet Union's understanding of the Middle East cannot be said to be bad, and the Brezhnev era has always set the main strategic offensive direction in the Middle East and southern Africa, and the target is the Persian Gulf region and South Africa. When the Soviet Union strategically attacked in the seventies, it mainly operated around these two places. If you don't know anything about the international situation, you may only have to go to the map, and the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed at the time of the Gulf War, so it could have been able to stabilize the decline by this time.

But Gotu reacted by reaching a consensus with the United States and issuing a "joint statement" demanding that Iraq unconditionally withdraw its troops from Kuwait and "fully restore Kuwait's sovereignty, legitimate regime and territorial integrity." This is fully consistent with the objectives of US policy towards Iraq. At the same time, arms supplies and military assistance to Iraq were halted. In order to avoid confrontation with the United States and other Western countries on the position of Iraq, the Soviet Union preferred to sacrifice Iraq, a former ally.

On the Iraq issue, the Soviet Union's attitude toward cooperation with the United States made US President George W. Bush feel "very satisfied," and called it "the first time that the United States and the Soviet Union have formed an alliance on a regional conflict after World War II." The United States and the Soviet Union agreed on their basic stance on the Gulf crisis, and the UN Security Council was able to smoothly pass a series of resolutions on sanctions against Iraq. Although the Soviet Union did not directly send troops to participate in the war against Iraq, its attitude of support for the United States in organizing a multinational force to send troops to the Gulf enabled the United States to take various military actions without any scruples.

The Gulf War was supposed to be seized by the Soviet Union to divert domestic contradictions, and the worst choice should have been to take advantage of the US military action to sort out domestic problems, but Gotu did nothing. The Soviet Union has been operating all over the world for decades, and even if there are many white-eyed wolves, there are always some countries that are useful, and it is understandable to abandon other countries, and to abandon where strategic contraction cannot reach, but to abandon Iraq, which is close at hand, can only be described as stupid. Iraq, which annexed Kuwait, has oil reserves on par with Saudi Arabia, how stupid a brain would not see this?

If the Soviet Union's southward route can only succeed in one, Serov will definitely choose Iraq, if it can succeed in two plus Turkey, his eyes have not been on Iran from beginning to end, Iran is anti-Soviet, anti-Soviet, what about anti-Soviet? Pahlavi only dared to shout slogans, and if he replaced the religious leader with a head like granite, it would not be a matter of shouting slogans. The deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan in the seventies had a lot to do with the Iranian revolution.

"We must find a way to control the Middle East, which is very beneficial to us, the United States is not short of all kinds of energy, but its allies are not like this, Japan, South Korea, and Western European countries in East Asia do not have huge energy reserves, and controlling energy is where our Soviet Union defeated the Americans, and no energy is the Achilles heel of the American allies." Serov talked for a long time about the direction of the expansion of the KGB, and finally returned to the old topic.

"Yes, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, if all three countries have good relations with us, the situation in the whole Middle East will be stable!" Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky nodded in agreement with Serov's view that these three countries were originally military powers in the Middle East in the traditional sense, and once they all fell to the Soviet Union, it would change the balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East, the most important of which was Iraq, which itself had more oil resources than the other two countries.

By controlling the Middle East, the Soviet Union could manipulate prices to influence all enemy countries except the United States, which lacked everything, but America's allies were countries that did not have such resource reserves. After succeeding in controlling the Middle East, it was beneficial for the Soviet Union for the United States to begin to exploit its own resources to support its allies, even in order for its allies to continue to hold on. Because the supply of raw materials at below-market prices to help the allies develop, this kind of thing was originally done by the Soviet Union to the countries of Eastern Europe, and the two sides in turn the Soviet Union did not have a very good life.

As for the attack on the Middle East, Iraq is the stepping stone prepared by Serov, and he can still figure out how to squeeze into OPEC in the future.

"That's right, Yuri! The situation in Sudan seems to have deteriorated, the prestige of General Aboud has been reduced by the protracted low-intensity war, and some officers seem to be dissatisfied with him. Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky asked.

"Either we don't do it, the Sudan will become a socialist country, and the coup forces that really work for the country will definitely come to contact us, and we don't need to be anxious about this, and don't take the initiative to contact General Aboud's opponents, waiting for ......" In Africa, the coup d'état is just a daily activity, but what kind of coup d'état is beneficial to the Soviet Union, this must be considered, ordinary coup d'état is not difficult, the difficult thing is that the country after the coup d'état is pro-Soviet, so this question should be operated carefully.

At this time in the Kremlin, Khrushchev was presiding over a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, but at this meeting, Khrushchev was missing the figure of the second secretary Kozlov, and at this meeting Khrushchev had not yet confirmed who was the candidate for the second secretary, and this matter had to wait until the plenary meeting of the Central Committee more than two months later to discuss, in fact, Khrushchev himself was also considering this matter.

"The supervision department will be merged into a single department to concentrate power and energy to build the integrity and purity of the cadres, and now we have a ready-made candidate, Comrade Sherepin who served as the head of the department in both the Komsomol and the KGB, and is a suitable person both in terms of organization and professionalism, for this I propose that Comrade Sherepin preside over this work!" Khrushchev loudly announced that the proposal had been unanimously adopted, and Sherepin stood up and nodded his head in thanks, and judging by his expression, it was clear that he had already learned the news and accepted the congratulations of the others very calmly.

Khrushchev expanded the powers of the Party and State Supervision Commissions, adding the functions of supervising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the army, the KGB, and the Ministry for the maintenance of public order. This meant that Shelepin could monitor the Soviet Army, Navy, Air Force and rocket forces, the KGB and foreign secret services, all border guards, staff of embassies and consulates abroad, and internal police throughout the country. Also indirectly led the cadres of the judicial system of prosecutors' offices, courts at all levels in the USSR, and this right once appeared, Beria ten years ago.

Khrushchev, who had ended the meeting, recruited Sherepin into his office, and he had given Sherepin unprecedented trust in him, and during the Khrushchev administration, no one was promoted faster than Sherepin, who was an alternate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, secretary of the Central Committee, vice chairman of the Council of Ministers, and chairman of the Party and State Supervision Commission.

"Alexander, what do you think of Semychasny's performance as chairman of the KGB!" Khrushchev, who sat down, asked. (To be continued.) )