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The KGB provided Yanayev with an exclusive piece of information, and it turns out that the CIA has recently had close contacts with senior leaders in several countries in the Middle East, especially in the military. The KGB's pawns in the Middle East have reported that they are engaged in some kind of negotiation, even though the CIA agents are in the Middle East as experts in commercial negotiators on oil resources.

After careful investigation, the KGB's Foreign Intelligence Service had a new harvest. The place of their negotiations was in the unstable status of the society in various countries, where there were more or less members of the government opposition, and after such delicate information was captured by the KGB, it was immediately reported to the Kremlin and presented on Yanayev's table.

"In the Middle East, factionalism within the government, the CIA, this is a grand conspiracy. Although it is not yet known what the Americans are planning, if the conspiracy is carried out smoothly, the political situation in the Middle East will become very delicate. Yanayev did not have much information at hand, but if the Middle East fell into large-scale chaos, it would have a major impact on the stability of the Soviet Union in Central Asia.

"It seems that it is necessary to personally contact those tycoons in the Middle East to find out what the United States wants to do." Yanayev tapped his fingers on the table, closed his eyes and thought quietly.

The first thing Yanayev did after returning to Moscow was to contact Saddam Hussein and ask about the recent situation in Iraq, which was originally an internal affair of other countries, and Yanayev had no right to ask about it, but it was related to the strategic issues of the Soviet Union, so he insisted on asking about it. And Saddam's answer was somewhat vague. As a result, Yanayev was very dissatisfied.

"I'm not interfering in Iraq's internal affairs, I just want to tell President Saddam Hussein, according to Soviet intelligence. The Americans are preparing a very large plot, an assassination plan codenamed Dreamland, and the CIA is preparing to unite with a few powerful people in your military to assassinate you. Would you still feel at ease if I said that now? ”

In 1995, the CIA did develop an assassination plan for Operation Dreamland, only to be learned of by Saddam Hussein, and more than 80 Iraqi officers involved in the operation were wiped out. He was eventually executed.

Yanayev's almost intimidating statement forced Saddam to put on a posture to ask about it, and he thought for a moment and then replied, "There have indeed been a lot of opposition voices in Iraq recently. The army opposes our budget cuts and defense spending, and Iraq has had a hard time lately, and it is still facing such high military spending if it cannot sell oil. Compared to the problem of the army. I am more worried about the turmoil and crisis that will arise in society. ”

"Oh. It seems that the current Iraq is suffering from internal and external troubles? Yanayev knowingly asked, "Do you need a Soviet advisory group to shelter your troops?" ”

In 1979, a delegation of the Iraqi Air Force visited the Soviet Union, where they signed a large order with Moscow for 240 fighters and helicopters, including the MiG-25, the most advanced air supremacy fighter at that time. After careful consideration, the Soviets agreed to this request, but on the condition that 18,000 Soviet "advisers" must be deployed in Iraq along with the aircraft to help the Iraqis operate and maintain this vast fleet of Soviet-made aircraft. At that time, the total number of Iraqi air forces was only 24,000. Therefore, this additional condition of the Soviets was actually tantamount to turning the Iraqi Air Force into a detachment of the Soviet Air Force. And the Ssubia Air Base in Iraq became a military base for the Soviets as a matter of course.

"Without the protection of the Soviet Union, the United States would have launched a much larger military strike." Saddam Hussein tactfully rejected the Soviet Union's impudent demands. After the Iran-Iraq war, the advisory group was withdrawn from Iraq, and how could he have given Yanayev the opportunity to turn Iraq into a "member country" of the Soviet Union.

However, Saddam Hussein obviously did not know at this time that he had already become a pawn in the trade and was sold by the Soviet Union.

And Yanayev does not want Saddam Hussein to step down too soon, he also hopes that Iraq can drag down the US economy more, and it is better to fall into a quagmire similar to the Vietnam War, "Of course, we will continue to support the Iraqi government and President Saddam in politics." As a friend of the Iraqi people, I give you a word of advice, you have to prepare for the worst, because the Americans are ready to attack you. ”

Saddam Hussein took a deep breath and replied slowly, "Thank you, Chairman Yanayev, for your advice." ”

Yanayev put down the phone, no matter what, he saved Saddam Hussein once, as for whether he will really be sent to the gallows or live for more than ten years unharmed in the future, it depends on Saddam's performance.

Sure enough, after the Middle Eastern tycoon put down the phone, he began an internal review operation within the army, and according to Yanayev's prompt, he quickly caught the perpetrators in the midst of those objections. A total of 37 high-ranking military officers were arrested during the censorship operation, who confessed to making a secret deal with the C.I.A. to plot a plan to assassinate Saddam, using roadside bombs to attack Saddam's vehicle, and then carrying out a military coup.

All the conspirators were arrested, and Saddam Hussein was finally relieved. Years of domination have stained his hands with the blood of many people, and there are also many more who are secretly waiting for revenge. The arrested officers were executed, and at such a critical moment, Saddam did one more wrong thing, which was to amplify the mistakes of this internal purge.

In this way, those who were not determined to ride the wall also began to consider the olive branch thrown by the Americans, which can be said to be the most abundant harvest for Woolsey, after the failure of the original dream plan, the CIA has a new group of friends in Baghdad, which also allows President Mario to speed up the implementation of his plan.

"Saddam Hussein is equivalent to putting the rope of the gallows around his neck, and now Iraq is already divided internally, Saddam Hussein cannot unite the people, and social turmoil has bred a group of democratic revolutionaries, and with the deployment of NATO troops in the Middle East, we can completely tear a gap in the middle of the Soviet Union's Middle East defense belt."

"If Iraq is in chaos, then Iran, Syria will they still be spared? This movement against the dictator's rule will become a revolutionary wave, like the French Revolution in the eighteenth century, which will turn the Middle East into a powder keg. After the Middle East became a battlefield for US proxies, the anti-missile strategic encirclement of Eastern Europe was about to be completed, so that the Soviet Union's ambition to expand its sphere of influence to the west and south was strangled in the cradle. ”

"I think the American people should be grateful to us for this plan, because when there is a war, then the American arms will sell well. That's a huge amount of revenue, and no lucrative military-industrial giant would refuse the temptation. The war in the Middle East can also lead to a breakthrough in our oil strategic plan, driving down the price of Soviet oil until it collapses. ”

Woolsey was in his office discussing a world-changing plan with William Perry, a sprawling conspiracy carried out by the CIA, with the White House chief of staff and the national security adviser working together to refine the details. This conspiracy against the Soviet Union was called the "Arab Spring" in the small circle of the president's top echelons.

The vast conspiracy to overthrow all anti-American and pro-Soviet regimes in the Arab world in the Middle East, and then to establish a pro-Western democratic world through the holding of power by fostered proxies, has been conceived by the United States for a long time, and after the failure of the dream plan that was supposed to be the fuse, CIA Director Woolsey needs a new assassination operation.

"The Kurds in northern Iraq are ready to announce the start of anti-government operations whenever there are disagreements in Baghdad." Perry stirred the sugar in his coffee, then looked up and asked Director Woolsey, "But now that those officers have been executed, and Saddam Hussein is still sitting in his seat of rule, what should we do?" As long as there is no chaos in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein will be able to easily suppress the Kurds. ”

"We have a bit of a pawn in our hands, and now we have to create an opportunity for them, and if we don't mind the CIA's misappropriation of the Air Force, I think there is a bold plan that can be executed." Woolsey pondered for a moment before speaking slowly.

Finally getting to Perry's point of interest, he looked up and asked, "What's the plan?" ”

"Use the cover of air strikes, let us assassinate Saddam Hussein with the chess pieces we planted inside." (To be continued.) )