Chapter 332: Riga
It is undeniable that the United States' nuclear weapons in this era have an overwhelming advantage over the Soviet Union in all aspects, and this is not the 70s when Brezhnev vigorously developed armaments, and it is precisely because of the Cuban Missile Crisis that the Soviet Union has lost its strength and has begun to go crazy to overwhelm the United States militarily. In other words, the Soviet Union and North Korea, which seemed to be a little crazy in later generations, were actually similar to each other, playing nuclear blackmail. The reason why they did not receive the same treatment as North Korea is partly due to China's efforts, and it is not the Soviets who are the most ferocious.
The decision to send missiles to Cuba had been issued, and Serov proposed that a detailed risk assessment be carried out in the name of the KGB Presidium, much more detailed than his analysis at the Central Presidium that day. The main disadvantages were two points, the huge disparity in the number of nuclear weapons, and the expected naval gap between the United States and the Soviet Union, plus the limitation of away combat, which was finally delivered by Chairman Semychasny to the Kremlin to First Secretary Khrushchev.
Riga is the capital of the Republic of Latvia, Riga Bay is a large port on the Baltic Sea, and the three Baltic countries have always had a certain resistance as the last republics to be incorporated into the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union is definitely not an invasion, because it was part of the Russian Empire during the imperial period, and not every country can do it to recover the lost territories, but the Soviet Union during the Stalin period has done it. a post-war socialist camp; Standing above the world.
"It must be clear that the discipline of this operation, with our cooperation with the Ministry of National Defense, the task of our anti-anti-terrorist workers is to improve discipline until the end of the mission." Standing in the shadows, Serov could only tell from a distance that someone was watching, but that didn't stop him from continuing to give orders.
It was twelve o'clock in the evening, and the whole harbor was silent, and everything was dormant. But in fact, this is all superficial. The port is very busy right now, but the lights are not turned on, and the hard hats on the heads of the workers are equipped with flashlights, which are equipped with basic lighting for the busy work. What they loaded on the ship were the nuclear missiles in service in the Soviet Union, and all nuclear missiles, regardless of type, had been dismantled in batches. As for the soldiers and assemblers who maintain these nuclear missiles, they have already gone to Cuba in advance, and the people and missiles will be separated, and when they arrive in Cuba, they will be reassembled.
It is actually quite strange to give orders in such a place, and Serov specially set up a telescope on the top floor of the headquarters of the KGB in Latvia to supervise the workers at the docks in the dark. Even the KGB anti-anti-anti-epidemic workers behind him were a little inexplicable, a person ran to the top floor in the dark to investigate, if they were found on any other occasion, it would definitely be the result of killing him on the spot.
"First Vice-Chairman, the reconnaissance plane has landed!" Just then, a soldier who climbed up through the vent reported.
"Good. We'll go back right away! Serov agreed, put down his binoculars, and climbed down the stairs.
The headquarters of the KGB in Latvia, in Latvia, the KGB has a surveillance network dedicated to reporting on anti-Soviet Latvians, many political dissidents, artists and writers have been arrested by the KGB, and many of them are held in this headquarters, the first floor and basement are the internal prisons of the headquarters of the KGB of Latvia. Every KGB headquarters has a secret prison, and of course the headquarters detention center in the general city is more meaningful. However, in places such as the three Baltic states, where anti-Soviet activities were more rampant, the sense of mission of the internal prisons was stronger. The internal prison of the KGB in Latvia has a total of 50 cells and 180 beds. As for the number of people currently detained, there are about 400 people, and the extra people can sleep underground, and they can't even stand this kind of suffering, and they dare to say that they are fighting for freedom?
Serov, who was passing by, stepped on the hard concrete floor. There was a tapping sound, and as for how many people were in the cells on the left and right, it was not within his care, but the image of the corridor was really not good, Serov commanded as he walked. "You don't have to clean up the damp walls, and you have to repaint them every summer every year, how do you make them look like a suburban warehouse? This delays the image of our anti-anti-corruption workers......" The people next to him all nodded yes, and decided to sell paint tomorrow to paint the headquarters and paint it again.
"If the internal prison is full, send people directly to Kazan prison, and now the cells there are very abundant, and you can also solve the burden on your Latvian side." Serov arrived at the conference room in a short time, took off the big-brimmed hat on his head, and said without delay, "Enlarge the aerial photos immediately, double them each time, and call relevant experts to conduct research, we want to get the exact data of the night reconnaissance, which is very important!" ”
It's actually strange to say, when the Soviet Union was about to collapse, the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs was full of Latvians who were willing to defend the Soviet, at that time, about a quarter of the cadres of the entire Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs were Latvians, and the leader was the Minister of Internal Affairs Pugo, and finally Pugo committed suicide because of the failed coup, these people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were against the collapse of the Soviet Union, which shows that this thing has nothing to do with national feelings, and the probability of deciding the head is greater.
Letting the Soviet Union's own reconnaissance planes reconnoiter in the port is actually a rather risky thing, and the Soviet Union's technology in this regard is certainly not as strong as that of the United States, so Serov asked the military's reconnaissance planes to come close to reconnoiter in order to assess whether the American reconnaissance planes were also capable of discovering the clues of the Soviet nuclear missiles in the dark of night. If these washed out photos do not prove anything, then I believe that the US reconnaissance plane will not react either.
"Zoom in, zoom in, keep zooming in!" Serov was not an expert, and after watching it for a long time, he didn't see any clues, so he had to turn to the professionals next to him and ask, "How is it, there is no problem?" ”
Professionals are a little skeptical that their chief should wear glasses? It's a pity that such big eyes can't see things clearly, it's a pity to be young, although he thinks so, he still says, "First Vice Chairman, the investigation results are quite poor, if we didn't know in advance that this was an aerial photography of the port, we wouldn't know where it was photographed, let alone see the goods!" ”
"That's good!" It is believed that even if the Americans' reconnaissance aircraft are better equipped than those of the Soviet Union, they should be very limited. As the first deputy chairman of the KGB, he had this self-confidence, and no country was stronger than the Soviet Union in terms of espionage equipment. How can the KGB, which is the conscience department of the Soviet Union, be compared with the great ancestors of the Ministry of Defense? Compared with the thinking of the marshals of the Department of Defense who will not turn around, the KGB code must remember that usually we do not solve problems head-on, not because the KGB cannot fight, but because we put the choice of action last, in fact, with the military power of the KGB, we can destroy most countries.
Hands-on is the last option of the KGB, just like Germany set up concentration camps to kill people, and the Soviet Union set up the Gulag to provide these criminals with a chance to turn their ways. Is it profitable to not have a job?
"Very good, comrades have worked hard, you can go and rest." Serov, who had done the work, breathed a sigh of relief and let his men rest, while he himself prepared to rest here for the night and return to Moscow tomorrow.
When leaving Riga, Serov also gave an order to the KGB of the three Baltic countries, asking the State Security Service and the General Directorate of Internal Affairs under the State Security Committee of these places to send local anti-Soviet elements to Kazan Prison, and these people were also among the people who were abandoned by Serov. Although the Soviet Union did not have the freedom they wanted, the United States did, and the motherland could only help you get here, and you could pursue great ideals in the air of freedom when you arrived in the United States.
"In view of the current situation in the Kazan prison, from June 12, the State Security Council, the NKVD, the Local State Security Service, the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs and their subordinate departments of the All-Union Union republics will be able to transport your local criminals to Kazan, which will solve the problem of aging local facilities and insufficient public resources. Yefimovich? The proposal of General Serov was adopted at the meeting of the Presidium of the KGB on the same day, and it will take effect on the same day......"
In the office of Chairman Semychasny on Lubyanka Square No. 11, Serov, who had just returned, followed Semychasny to his office after the meeting of the Presidium, and the two sat down face to face.
"Do you have the necessary data?" Shemychasny poured two glasses of water from the water dispenser and handed one directly to Serov.
"The experiment on the reconnaissance aircraft in the dark has been completed, as long as the Ministry of Defense strictly abides by discipline and does not act during the day, there should be no problem, should we send personnel to follow it, and our soldiers participating in the Ministry of Defense will definitely not dare to violate discipline!" Serov drank the water from the glass and asked Semychasny with his legs crossed.
"This is also my idea, from the scope of responsibility, overseas should be the scope of the First General Bureau, but their personnel are all stationed abroad, we should select anti-counter workers from the garrison representatives of the General Administration of Military Administration, so that it can be more acceptable to the military people!" Shemichasny seemed to ask, "Who do you think would be a good fit?" (To be continued.) )