Chapter 589: Cold Communication
"Chairman, if the calculations are accurate, you should be able to see the arrivals in no time!" Sakhatowsky said this at the end of the telegram, which amused Serov, and then shook his head slightly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Comrade General Political Commissar, several people who claim to have come from the Lubyanka want to see you." It was at this time that a captain officer came in and reported that the title of Serov KGB Chairman did not serve the officers and men of the Southern Cluster of the Soviet Union. The National Defense Commissar and the General Political Commissar for National Security are the commanders in their mouths. He was the leader of the political cadres of the Soviet military, and he actually had an office at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, but Serov never went. He is the general political commissar of the army, navy, and air force, and has jurisdiction over the political departments of the five major services of the Soviet Union, the districts under the jurisdiction of the various group armies, border defense forces, and air defense corps, as well as the division-level political offices and grass-roots party committees.
"Good work, let them in." Serov was stunned, is it time to come? The person who came belonged to his own people, and for him, the highest security cadre of the Soviet Union, all the people of the security agencies were considered their own people. The KGB has 25 Main Directorate units, the GRU has 22 Main Directorate units, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has 15 Main Directorate units in operation. The national security of the Soviet Union depended on the major directorates led by these 60 or so cadres with the rank of general.
Of course, in fact, the largest department with the largest number of members is the unit with the fewest units in the General Directorate, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serokov, after all, the people's police agency, the fire department, and the household registration agency all need a huge number of people. The large auxiliary forces also contributed to the KGB's work in maintaining national security.
"Chairman, we are part of the Special Investigations Department and the Special Pharmacy Laboratory of the Technical Supply Division, and we will complete the technical reserves for this operation." As soon as he entered, an officer with a grim face stretched out his hand and introduced himself to his origins, for a technical officer like him, some are not very good at dealing with others, even if the other party is his immediate boss.
"The two departments have come, and I hope you can cooperate closely." Serov reminded from the side of the importance of this operation, and the local people should not mess up. The Department of Special Investigations is a unit at the level of the KGB's General Directorate, and the Special Pharmacy Laboratory of the Technical Supply Division belongs to the KGB Secret Police Directorate.
In order to figure out the reasons for the various things as quickly as possible, the General Directorate of the Secret Police set up a special pharmacy laboratory to break down the opponent's will.
"The comrades of the advisory department lurking in the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs will cooperate with your actions, and of course, I must emphasize that I am not letting de Gaulle die, and if the other party dies, it will be a great trouble for us in the Soviet Union." It's not that Serov is cowardly, but the input is not proportional to the gain, when the Soviet Union is in control, he doesn't mind killing all the disobedient, but at this time there is a bigger hooligan in the world than the Soviet Union, although recently this big hooligan is more kidney-deficient.
Occupying the moral high ground has nothing to do with kidney deficiency, once de Gaulle dies in the Warsaw Pact countries, even if it is not done by the Soviet Union, public opinion will turn to the Soviets, don't look at Serov to spread the conspiracy theory of Kennedy's death to do his duty, once this happened to him, he also had no way at all.
"What we bring is not poison, in fact it is more like a stimulant, but the sequelae are more obvious, there will be drowsiness, weakness and transient pneumonia, the older the person is more obvious, as far as we know, de Gaulle is already seventy-eight years old, once he eats food contaminated with this medicine, a serious illness is certain, but it will not attack immediately." Several people communicated and replied, "Anyway, with our technical means, it can't be detected." ”
In other words, the KGB could not detect it through testing afterwards, because it was not a poison in itself, let alone a lethal emitting toxin, and it was easy to evade the detection of French security personnel, plus the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs itself had the presence of KGB undercover personnel, and it seemed that the success rate was very large.
Since the beginning of the Soviet Union's southern cluster military exercises, the whole of Bucharest has been on alert, although the Soviet Union has not yet begun to play the game of hanging friends in this time and space, but Ceausescu, who is under pressure from Moscow openly and secretly, can clearly feel the pressure from the northeast, and the doubts in the hearts of the Kremlin rulers have not dissipated.
Throughout the streets of Bucharest, people are talking about the visit of French President Charles de Gaulle, and it is undoubtedly exciting to be able to treat one of the world's great powers on an equal footing. But at the same time, the exercises of the Soviet garrison are also a hot topic of discussion. At this time, Serov boarded the train again and went straight to Bucharest, the capital of Romania, which for a time made many Romanian military generals and security cadres feel like a great enemy, and at this sensitive moment, no one knew what the famous or notorious chairman of the KGB of the Soviet Union was doing.
In any case, wearing high black military boots, he still got off the train at the Bucharest railway station and stepped on the streets of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, "Go directly to the Romanian Ministry of Defense, and our first choice is to ask why the Romanian People's Army is not exercising with the Southern Cluster?" What exactly is Romania's position? ”
This dissatisfaction is not faked, and the countries of the Soviet bloc are generally smaller in territory and less populous than those in Western Europe. Under these circumstances, the Soviet Union is not qualified to follow the hypocrisy of the United States, because once it does, the confrontational forces that can be concentrated will be smaller, and the gap between the two camps will be even more unbalanced.
So when the General Commissar of State Security of the Soviet Union appeared on the streets of Bucharest with a constipated face, this situation was immediately known to Ceausescu, who was talking with President de Gaulle.
"This Soviet spy leader seems to be putting pressure on Ceausescu, but according to what I have learned in the past few days, Ceausescu is not a person who is easy to bow his head!" President de Gaulle bowed his head to his entourage.
"Does Romania want to learn from France? Do you want to practice Eastern European Gaullism in Romania? Having just met Ceausescu, in the beautiful Palazzo Cotterocheni, Serov asked aggressively from the beginning, "France is France, and we are of course optimistic about the emergence of a country within the NATO bloc, but it does not mean that I want my comrades to have a role of delay, does Romania want to learn from Yugoslavia?" This is not conducive to friendly relations between our Soviet Union and Romania, and I hope that the General Secretary will seriously consider this. ”
"Romania has never been prepared to betray socialism, but as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Romania, one must be responsible for our country, and the Romanians need independence, not the guidance of the Soviet Union at any time and place." Ceausescu gritted his teeth without flinching and said, "This is the desire of the people's hearts, Comrade Serov, you can't stop the thoughts of our people." ”
Your people eventually shot you, you know? There are also a bunch of invented charges on your head, and only the gypsies show a little conscience because you treat them as equals, and send you flowers on your death day every year.
Serov would not say these things, but instead recounted, "In any way, Eastern Europe and Western Europe are different, the other side has already completed hundreds of years of accumulation, even if it loses its colonies, it still maintains its influence, and we need to rely on ourselves for everything, the basic conditions of the two sides are different, so we must unite, if our comrades are England, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, want population and population, want industry and industry, do you think I will come to your country idle and have nothing to do, and dictate your policies?" Because there is indeed a gap between our strength and the other side, we need to unite even more. Gaullism was not needed in Romania. ”
De Gaulle's foreign policy was to maintain national independence and maintain much control, as much as possible for many French colonies, as a result of some practical consequence of a degree of opposition from international organizations such as NATO or the European Community.
The expansionary nature of foreign policy, or perhaps the most suspicious of expansionist intentions in de Gaulle's foreign policy propositions, is his view of Europe. While opposing the control of Western Europe by the United States and the hegemony of the United States, De Gaullist clearly revealed the desire for France to replace the United States in Europe, first by controlling Germany, then by acting as the leader of the European Community, then by the whole of Western Europe, and then by extension to the whole of Europe. De Gaulle's frank language, which he had always believed that France should be the center and head of Europe, combined with his often aggressive ultimatum-like actions, could not but wary his European countries.
"I can understand Comrade Serov's misgivings about Romania, but I can also emphasize that Romania will not withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and the Economic Mutual Cooperation Conference, and our foreign policy is only for the sake of a more relaxed national environment, in which we can get the maximum help and build our Romanian socialism." Ceausescu was unmoved by the invitation, "If Comrade Serov wishes, I can arrange for you to meet with President de Gaulle, believing that this will ease the hostility between the two sides." ”
"I also want to meet the French president who is on fire in this country." Serov tilted his head slightly, replied in the standard parade posture of Soviet soldiers, "I hope that the Romanian comrades will remember that our confrontation with NATO is only one way to defeat them, not to pin our hopes on the help of the opponent, once they lose their vigilance?" Serov made up in his mind the report that Ceausescu and his wife had been shot, and smiled at Ceausescu with a strange smile.
The brief exchange between the two sides was definitely not friendly, and in the end Leontin? Raotu interjected to ease the cold relations between the two sides, Leontin? Rautu was the secretary of the Central Committee, and his role in the Romanian Communist Party was the equivalent of that of Suslov in the Soviet Union, and eventually the two turned to lighter things, such as the Vietnam War and the wave of protests in the United States, and Ceausescu also wanted to keep a safe distance from the Soviet Union, not to tear his face with Moscow. (To be continued.) )