Chapter 389: Archival Appraisal
Please Valya finish settling the accounts, a word lingered in Serov's heart for a long time, poor! A collection of intelligence, security, military, security, and supervision departments with millions of members. It can be said that there is not enough money to spend.
In the case of the head of a regional intelligence network, in US dollars, a KGB network similar to that of a city like London and Paris, the head of the intelligence needs millions of dollars, and this is only the cost of the activity, not including some additional costs. Not to mention that there were more places to spend money in the USSR, and it was enough for the border guards and the internal guards, so that Semychasny, who went to apply for funding, was in the mood to hang himself.
Even so, two years ago, when Khrushchev was drasticly cutting funds, the group of old men in the Ministry of Defense still wanted the KGB to independently bear the cost of arms procurement for the internal affairs forces and border guards, which was fortunately resisted by Sherepin. Now, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev is not going to impose restrictions on military spending, so that the KGB will not be burdened with a big burden, otherwise Semychasny will have one more task at the end of the year, which is to communicate with the Ministry of Defense about the cost of updating the equipment of the Internal Guard and the border guards.
"This is called a poor, the funds have never been abundant, every time a fund comes in, you will immediately find that there are more places to invest!" Serov, who was burning in the kitchen, kept thinking about the cigarette machine, and without looking back, he knew that Valya was leaning against the door frame and looking at him.
"You're just a department, do you need so much money?" Valya asked puzzled, "Besides, your KGB budget has always been passed very quickly, and it has not been affected so much by the Ministry of Defense." ”
"The internal guard and border guards add up to 600,000 people, the National Security Bureau, the General Administration of Internal Affairs, the military representative office, the scientific research and protection force, the traffic command, spy training, and field reconnaissance, isn't that money, wife?" Burning the last bill to ashes, Serov stood up and prepared to take the ashes out of the toilet, and said dissatisfiedly, "Even so, last year the Ministry of Defense asked us to pay for the purchase of tanks, gunboats and light weapons, why didn't they rob it?" ”
How much money was in the KGB? Not much at all, to maintain law and order in the country, it is necessary to build a global intelligence network, espionage and counterintelligence, in Serov's opinion, the work of the KGB is much more important than the Ministry of Defense, what is the Ministry of Defense doing? It is that there are a large number of tanks on the front line and the Americans are staring at each other, and the front line of the real confrontation is the secret front of the KGB.
If Serov does not say that the KGB kills more people every year than the current Red Army, who knows about this? Knowing that no one may believe it, they may think that he, the first deputy chairman of the KGB, is lying.
"So you're on the National Security Council, and you're a vulnerable group in the Alliance?" Valya made an exaggerated expression, how could the KGB anti-operatives look like a group of victims in the eyes of her husband?
The advantage of having a hot body is that you won't be bound by clothes. Serov clearly saw an action called nipple shaking.
"When you say that, I suddenly feel very true. It seems that we have more work than we are paid, and I would like to suggest to Semychasny that he propose to the Presidium of the Central Committee that the KGB should raise wages. ”
The wage increase is just a joke, the KGB's salary itself will be higher, and if it rises again, other departments may be dissatisfied, but the KGB does spend money in many places, such as the current areas that focus on development. In addition to the Soviet Union, the KGB's overseas intelligence network, the strongest is of course Europe, and Europe is the most important direction at all times. In addition to Europe, the direction from strong to weak is the Middle East, British Africa and French Africa, North America, and Australia and New Zealand.
The weakest direction of the KGB was South America, and that was because the distance was too far for the USSR to reach. Another weaker direction is Asia, especially East and Southeast Asia. The expansion of the Vietnam War was inevitable, and with the need to prepare for Indonesia, it was imperative to increase the KGB's power in Asia.
A lot of things are like this, where the military forces can't get through, the intelligence services go first. But working in Asia certainly can't send Soviet-looking agents, that's too obvious. There is only one Sorge, which cannot be used as a broad representative as a reference standard for the KGB to send spies, besides, it is the GRU's people.
The criteria for sending spies, with the exception of a few agents who have the appearance of Europeans under cover, most of the candidates must be based on the appearance of the locals, at least not the kind that will attract onlookers as soon as they appear. So this time Serov is ready to use the Koreans as the support of the Soviet Union in East and Southeast Asia.
In accordance with the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR No. 1428-326 of 37, all Koreans were relocated from the Far East (mainly Primorsky Krai) to Kazakhstan and other places to prevent them from being "used" by the Japanese.
Serov is not very clear how many of these North Koreans there are now, but it should not be difficult to select a few hundred people as spies. In addition, there is another significant cover for the use of Koreans, that is, the relationship between Japan and South Korea, if Serov's memory is not confused, the number of Koreans in Japan in later generations is very large, indicating that there was a loophole in Japan in this regard for a while, and this is a good opportunity.
"Expanding the strength of the intelligence network in Asia is a big deal, Comrade Serdyuko has taken more pains to absorb a group of North Koreans to enrich the intelligence forces in Asia, and the agents of Chitaiskaya have other uses, and it is too difficult to cultivate, I dare not put them in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea!" Serov arranged this matter to Lieutenant General Serdyuko, director of the General Administration of Domestic Espionage, "The main direction of response is Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, and China should not touch it, because you must know that countries with a system like ours are not easy to infiltrate......
China in this era, not to mention the agents trained by the Soviet Union, even the Chinese who were born and raised on the mainland by Peanut Rice, are often killed as soon as they go ashore, and it is not easy for the Soviet Union to train agents, as the first deputy chairman of the KGB, Serov must not watch these trained agents go to death.
Chitaiskaya is the internal name of the KGB, and it is a secret service city like Gatsna, and Chitaiskaya means Khitan, as the name suggests, most of the city's power corresponds to China, while taking into account Japan and South Korea. In fact, Serov is not very in favor of the Soviet Union's huge cost of this training model, this training model is more suitable for dealing with those rich places in Europe and North America, in the face of the Middle East, Southeast Asia, North Africa these places, it took more than ten or twenty years to train a group of people, whether it can recover the cost is not certain.
"Japan and South Korea? And Southeast Asia, I understand, North Koreans can disguise themselves as Chinese, and this matter will be left to me! Serdyuko nodded, leaving behind a stack of documents on the table, archives to be exact.
The archives did not belong to the USSR alone, but their importance in the USSR was self-evident. The KGB has access to the archives, which has always been allowed, of the three important files, the personnel files are not under the control of the KGB, the organizational files and security files pass through the hands of the KGB, of which the organizational files KGB has the right to review, and the security files are inherited by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Among them, the file with the greatest relevance to the KGB is the security file. The KGB will use the security file to determine whether a cadre will commit treason, and it is not easy for the KGB to deal with cadres at or above the rank of deputy member of the Central Committee, but it is not difficult to deal with cadres in ordinary places.
Especially for cadres who are in the stage of preparing for promotion, the security file of the KGB plays a very important role. It is not said that life and death are determined by a word, but it can have a very important impact on middle-level cadres.
Born into a peasant family in the village of Privorny in the Red Army District of the Stavropol Territory of the southern Soviet Union, his father was a mechanic on the village collective farm. Before going to school, he lived with his grandparents most of the time. The purge affected the ********** family, and my grandfather was arrested on charges of colluding with the Trotskyists and undermining the economic strength of the collective farms. **********'s grandfather was also arrested for not having seeds and not completing the planting plan.
After graduating from Moscow University with honors seven years ago, he returned to his hometown to work and successively served as the first secretary of the Stavropol City Youth League Committee, the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Border District Committee of the Communist Youth League of the Soviet Union, and the second and first secretaries of the Youth League Committee of the Territory Region.
In this year, he was appointed as a member of the Party Organization of the Territory of the Farm Production Administration of the Stavropol Region of the CPSU, and half a month ago he was the head of the Party Organ of the Stavropol Agricultural Territory of the CPSU.
"The Great Purge is really a failure, the expansion is a relatively big failure, and the biggest failure is that this person was not purged." Serov looked at the file of the Gotu map, the ingredient that their family had identified was rich peasants, and this ingredient could become the leader of the Soviet Union, and the KGB would have leaked him, who was the boss of the KGB in history? Got it?
After thinking about it for a while, it seems that the suspicion of Semichasny and Andropov is relatively large, and the possibility of Semichasny is a little smaller, and Semichasny will soon be replaced by Brezhnev according to the course of history, so it seems that Andropov's vision of choosing assistants is not ordinarily bad.
"Comrade Gotu should be included in the list of key observers, in terms of family composition, this comrade is not suitable for the post of secretary of the state party committee and above, observer, Yuri Yefimovich Serov!" Serov brushed up and commented on the file, with the current status of the map, he still needs to find a special way to deal with him? It was enough to put a comment on the file so that he would have no influence on the USSR for the rest of his life, and he would not need to kill people at all. (To be continued.) )