Chapter 214: National Security Conference
No matter what he does, it needs the test of time, and no matter how good his plan is, it is impossible to achieve immediate results. Doing everything for the good of the Sultan will not necessarily impress General Aboud, because he cannot expect a military junta to be far-sighted, so it is also necessary to set aside a sum of money to buy some military generals while building momentum. The spirit of internationalism must be expressed, and the means of imperialism must also be used, and both are indispensable.
For Serov, this is just a small amount of money, and near the end of the year, Serov has become the master of procurement waving money, incarnated as a friend of the capitalists, and is ready to give benefits to the members of the KGB institutions at the end of the year, and the domestic welfare is solved by the government, except for such things as firewood, rice, oil and salt, there are still many things left to him, the first deputy chairman, champagne from France, red wine from Italy, watches from Switzerland, and carpets from Turkey. Procurement was carried out in a large number of countries in Europe, and of course the lion's share remained in Italy, involving $60 million. This year, Serov has raised a total of 3.06 billion dollars for the KGB, and it can be said that he has done everything for the KGB.
It's like a capitalist who hates communism, but never thinks that communist money stinks. Although Serov is eager to plant the red flag all over the world tomorrow, he will never fail to admit the backwardness of the patents controlled by the capitalists.
"3,500 washing machines, 4,000 refrigerators, 10,000 desktop electric fans, each of which I dismantled 100 and handed it over to the General Administration of Technology for imitation. We have the design, but the hardware can't keep up? Serov took today's list and asked Isemotny to distribute the items to the main bureaus according to the above list. As for the design in his mouth, it is in Italy that is being prepared for production, and the template is the refrigerator of his own home in his previous life.
Probably not many people know. Before entering the Soviet Union, these items had been rebranded in the GDR, and at the same time, Serov also left a batch of products for the GDR to copy, and just now received a thank you call from the GDR Stasi. From this point of view, Serov can say that he never regarded the intelligence agencies of his allies as outsiders, and internationalism was first realized in the KGB.
Towards the end of the year, the KGB is also taking stock of its work over the past year. The KGB headquarters building at No. 11 Lubyanka Square gathered the heads of the entire KGB, 27 cadres at the level of the Directorate, eight deputy chairmen, three first deputy chairmen, plus KGB Sherepin, who met before the KGB national congress to discuss possible issues and discuss the national security and internal affairs cadres in a week.
"First of all, the auditorium of our KGB is definitely not enough, this year we merged the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the number of people is definitely more than last year. It was too late to expand the auditorium, so we had to find a movie theater as the venue for the national convention! "It was Itvasov, the other first deputy chairman of the KGB, who was now the oldest deputy chairman, and when the former chairman of the KGB, General Serov, was in power, he was already the deputy chairman of the KGB. Sherepin also had great respect for him.
Among them, the 2nd and 3rd Directorates were represented by two first deputy directors, Lieutenant General Serdyuko and Lieutenant General Roman.
This can't be helped, there are no real directors of the two general bureaus, and Serov is concurrently serving as the director. The two seats could not be empty, so the two first deputy directors appeared at this meeting in a grand manner. No one is upset, at least on the surface. Many people know that Serov is purchasing, and the year-end benefits have not yet been paid, and they are dissatisfied and can wait until the benefits are paid.
"The cinema must be big enough, at least 3,000 people, otherwise we can't fit our cadres!" Serov thought for a moment and said, "I heard that Comrade Kozlov will also come to our National Security and Security Conference to guide the work. Then we must be more careful and be ready to meet Kozlov's comrades. ”
Kozlov, now the second secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee, is the successor of Khrushchev who is above 10,000 people under one person in the Soviet Union.
"It's not a problem, it's not difficult for Moscow to find a place to meet!" Sherepin chuckled as he flicked his cigarette ash. "Moscow lacks everything, that is, not a place to meet. This national safety and security conference is the first time that we and the comrades of the Ministry of the Interior have worked together again, and we must hold a beautiful ......."
Everyone nodded yes, the recent congress was surprisingly dense, so Sherepin learned about the recent busyness and held the National Security and Law and Security Conference earlier, otherwise it would have been even busier in the future.
"It's troublesome for Comrade Sakhatowsky to deal with foreign comrades, this year's colleagues from our allies will come to our meeting first, some comrades may not have been to Moscow, there is no problem with the First General Directorate of reception work, right?" Serov asked, looking at Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky of the 1st Main Directorate.
"No problem, I can guarantee that there will be no problems in receiving foreign comrades!" Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky said indifferently, as if this was not a problem.
"I have some questions, and that is the current traffic problem in Moscow, knowing that in the coming month Moscow will gather foreign comrades, and it will be very difficult for our General Directorate to control traffic. Especially during the rush hour when the traffic volume increases, it is more difficult. "said the head of the Main Directorate of the Traffic Management Service, Lieutenant General Kikonov.
"Is it really okay for the school to adjust the start and end times?" Itvasov looked around at the people around him and proposed, "Anyway, there shouldn't be any major problems in a month's time, let's deal with this time first......"
"We can't make it difficult for children to go to school, that's not what the KGB is all about. Actually, I have a solution. Serov thought for a moment to attract the attention of the others, and said slowly, "Isn't it clear that the matter will be settled by putting our KGB badge on the outside of the school buses of all schools?" ”
Straightforward enough! Everyone had to think that Serov's method was very good, and the shield and sword badges were attached to the school buses of all schools, and it is believed that this school bus did not dare to intercept in the whole of Moscow.
"Of course, we have to say hello to the school, otherwise it will not be good if there is a traffic accident." Serov added to the proposal that his attention was to solve the problem and not create a problem, and it would be bad if the school's drivers did not follow the traffic rules.
Today, Serov's suggestion has caused a peculiar scene in the Soviet Union in later generations, the Soviet Union's later school buses are all kinds of colors and not even uniform, but they are safer than school buses in any other country, because the KGB shield and sword badge were affixed to the school buses of the whole Soviet Union, and an attack on students twenty years later became the first incident in the Soviet Union where a student group was threatened, and it was also that tragic attack that completely reversed the Soviet public's impression of the KGB, All members of the KGB presidium at that time vowed to kill the attackers, and 30,000 KGB agents gathered in Lubyanka Square to observe a moment of silence for the dead students, and then left the country for a mission.
According to the recollection of the CIA, the opponent of the KGB's Cold War, for 20 years they had always thought that their opponent was fighting against them with all their might, and they never knew that the opponent was so terrible when he went crazy, and the president of a certain Middle Eastern country never went abroad since that year, just like there was an invisible wall on the border of a country, because no one knew whether he would be able to come back after going abroad. That year, according to the statistics of the Central Intelligence Agency, there were more than 1,000 homicides related to the KGB around the world, and no organization or individual sympathized with the attackers could escape the KGB's blow.
The reason why everyone, including Sherepin, is so serious about the recent security work is not because the National Security and Law Congress is about to be held, but because it is followed by an even more important congress, the Congress of the Communist Party of the Eighty-One and the Workers' Party. A week after the KGB's National Security and Law Congress, the Congress of the Communist and Workers' Parties of 81 Nations will be held, and all the Communist Parties of some weight in the world will appear in Moscow.
Andropov, head of the Central Liaison Department, was responsible for liaising with Communist Party delegations from other countries, including Italy, France, Great Britain and Greece in Europe, the Communist Party of Finland, Vietnam, Indonesia and China in Asia, North Korea, India, and others. This is the embodiment of the influence of the USSR in the sixties, and the pinnacle of socialism so far.
"Yuri, make a report of today's meeting and send it to the Kremlin!" After the meeting ended, Sherepin grabbed Serov, who was about to leave, and said that Sherepin already knew that his time in the KGB might not be very long, and the number of times he went to the Kremlin recently was far less diligent, and he handed over a lot of things to Serov, and Serov, who had been ridiculing Sherepin behind his back for a long time, should have grown up in the Kremlin, and now he has replaced Shelepin's work and has become a cadre of a department that runs the most diligently to the Kremlin.
"Got it!" Serov didn't say that I was busy, handed over his work report to Lukani, took the minutes of the meeting in Sherepin's hand, and drove directly to the Kremlin to report directly to Khrushchev.
Khrushchev was no more relaxed than the others, and he was also in full swing preparing for the upcoming congress of the Communist Party and the Workers' Party of the eighty-one countries in the world, which was a golden opportunity to know that there were not so many parties in the world gathered in Moscow during the Stalin era. (To be continued.) )
PS: There was a power outage during the day today, sorry!