"Who? Are they Beria's people? Valya's pretty face was full of astonishment, and she saw her husband nodding imperceptibly, and her hands holding the child couldn't help but tighten. The news is so subversive, as the most influential leader in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Beria has been dead for seven years, who would have thought that his power has not been cleared?

It is no wonder that Beria led the Ministry of Internal Affairs for too long, and Biagoda and Yezhov combined. If it weren't for the sudden arrest by accident, it would not have been so easy for Khrushchev's men to deal with Beria. The internal affairs forces around Moscow were no worse than the Moscow Military District, and they were deployed closer to the city than the Red Army. Of course, dwelling on Beria's mistakes has no avail, and it is difficult to say whether today's meeting will be good or bad.

In the seventh year of knowing Alexey, Serov finally saw the sincerity of the other party, those security cadres who were in Alexei's house just now were all cadres promoted by Beria that year, as for whether it is the full strength of Alexey's group, it is not guaranteed, but these people I have seen are already a large force. Because the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was always the focus of Khrushchev's inventory, not many Beria cadres remained, and most of those people held local posts.

Most contrary to Serov's expectations, the chairman of the KGB in Ukraine turned out to be one of them, which was a surprise. Who would have thought that the security cadres in Khrushchev's base camp would be left behind after the death of his biggest opponent. Fate is a wonderful thing, and of course Serov is not sure that the people in it are very reliable, so he didn't say anything meaningful at Alexey's house just now, except for eating and drinking.

When they got home, the two put the child to sleep together, looking at the baby's innocent little face, the two looked at each other for a long time and were speechless, "What else do you want?" You are already the number two in the most powerful department. Why are you in such a hurry? Why did you have to go with the remnants of Beria? Valya's weak words were full of complaints, and she pointed to the sleeping child and whispered, "There is an easy road to take, but you must take such a dangerous road?" ”

"The safest way I walked, Venus!" Serov pulled his wife in his arms and said, "I wonder why Beria can make it impossible for someone else's hand to reach the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Only assassinate him! What's different about the organizational structure? ”

"But Beria is dead, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which he runs like a tank, has lost its driver, and has it not been dismantled? This reason does not convince me to approve of what you are doing. Valya closed her eyes weakly, feeling her husband's embrace.

"No, one of the figures in the KGB is Shelepin, not me!" Serov smiled and said with relief, "People know that I was promoted by Shelepin, and they want to deal with me or not, but I can't help but prepare early." In case one day you really start to be dealt with, you won't be caught off guard in the face of a sudden blow! ”

After speaking, he suddenly picked up the woman in his arms, and the sudden movement caused Valya to cry coquettishly, "The child is still sleeping"

"Such a young child has no memory yet, it's okay!" Serov left the room with a hippie smile on his wife's shoulder, and when she went out of the door, Valya turned off the light with one hand and closed the door with the other, not leaving the problem to her husband, who had both hands on him.

After the National Conference of Security and Internal Affairs Cadres. Security cadres from a number of important regions have not left Moscow, and a total of nearly 100 people continue to stay there. Waiting for colleagues from other countries to come to Moscow, the integration of intelligence resources and unified actions within the Warsaw Pact will be the focus of discussions in the last few days. The heads of the intelligence services of various countries nominally came to the meeting with the congress of the Communist Party and the Workers' Party of 81 countries, mainly the intelligence agencies of Eastern European countries, and most of these people Serov knew him, including Korzinski in Poland, Lasak in Hungary, Ilysscu in Romania, and Marcus in the GDR. Wolf was an old acquaintance of Serov.

There are still a few days left. Taking advantage of the gap in the past few days, Serov specially found Major General Kadpov of the General Directorate of the Secret Police, which is a candidate who can succeed Alexey in Serov's eyes, and the most important thing is that Kadpov's attitude towards religion has always been admirable, and hostility alone cannot be a reason to impress Serov, and it is necessary to have a deep understanding of the nature of religion that can make the work twice as effective with half the effort.

In the headquarters of the Second Directorate. Serov met with the head of the Soviet religious community, Chairman of the USSR Committee on Religious Affairs and Chief of the Fifth Division of the KGB's Secret Police Directorate, Kadpov. All the religions of the Soviet Union, whether Orthodox, Green or Yellow, were under the control of this man, and it seems that Khadpov's work has been very effective.

"Kadpov, you have given a satisfactory answer within the scope of your work." Serov put down the report on the religious work of the All-Union Union of the Soviet Union for one year, and said with approval, "The members of the KGB chairman, including Chairman Sherepin, believe that you are an energetic comrade full of unique ideas. ”

"The person who can make the First Vice President remember must be a very remarkable person, since it is related to my work, it should be Pope John XXIII of the Vatican, otherwise the First Vice Chairman would not have specifically raised this issue." Kadpoff thought for a moment and set his sights on John XXIII.

Yes, I really don't know where Alexei found this man, at least in the field of religion, Kadipov is not inferior to anyone, even more professional than a professional priest, after all, to deal with an enemy, you must know your opponent deeply, Kadipov does not need anyone to supervise in this regard.

"That's right, I met John XXIII, so I thought of a problem, that is, in the work of the First General Directorate of Foreign Affairs, there is a lack of a department, a department dedicated to dealing with various religions, this department already has it in the internal aspect, that is, your Soviet Committee for Religious Affairs, but in the face of opponents in other countries, the same department is missing, and many departments of the General Directorate of Foreign Intelligence and the General Directorate of Domestic Espionage are of the same configuration, The General Directorate of the Secret Police, which was separated from the General Directorate of Internal Espionage, has undertaken this work, but not the foreign-related work. Serov lazily looked at the snowflakes floating outside, and said in a long voice, "Many of the areas involved in the First General Administration are areas with a very strong religious atmosphere, whether it is North Africa, the Middle East, or Southeast Asia, if we don't understand the local religion, it will cause us a lot of trouble, do you understand what I mean?" ”

"In other words, the First General Bureau needs a religious affairs office to deal with religious forces in different regions?" Kadpov's eyes rolled and he said his judgment, and said very simply, "No problem, I can draw a group of people from the Religious Affairs Committee into this post to facilitate the work of the First General Bureau......"

"Of course, the First General Bureau needs such a department, and we can't relax the work of our original department, understand?" Serov said in a look that I am very optimistic about you, "Before the first half of next year, there will also be changes in the work of our KGB, and you don't need to know about the others, but among them, your current immediate boss, Lieutenant General Alex, the director of the Fifth Main Directorate, will go to work in the current subordinate General Directorate of Internal Affairs and become the controller of the largest part of the KGB, and the position of the director of the Fifth Main Directorate will be vacant, Major General Kadpov, I am very optimistic about you......"

It was almost like telling Major General Kadpov that once Lieutenant General Alexei left the General Directorate of the Secret Police, you would be the best successor, which was simply a pie-in-the-sky thing, and Major General Kadypov suddenly heard the news, and his head was a little dizzy, and he had to admit that this was great news.

"Deputy Chairman Serov, I will definitely do my best to complete the work of the Main Directorate of the Secret Police." Kadypov suppressed the joy in his heart and assured that the Fifth General Directorate, which was born out of the General Directorate of Internal Espionage, was regarded as the General Directorate of the KGB, which had relatively large real power, and became a huge step forward for the director of the General Directorate.

"The key is your successor, the newly established Religious Affairs Office of the First General Administration and the Religious Affairs Committee of the Fifth General Administration, the heads of the two departments must be selected well, and I need two cadres who are as capable as you!" Serov didn't let Kadpov's joy last long, "Our work is of great significance, and if you don't pick a good successor, I'd rather you continue to be the chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee, because once you relax your vigilance in this regard, this group of plague-like things will come back, and religion is too terrible, especially for people who are not strong-willed." ”

"Vice chairman, there is no shortage of people in our department to clean up religious forces, so you don't have to worry about this at all. There will be no one of our opponents in the entire USSR, and there will be no shortage of people to deal with foreign regions! Kadpov swore an assurance.

This was not a reason for Serov to believe, and in the end Serov asked Kadpov to make a list that he wanted to look at, and the time was tomorrow, to which Kadpov agreed, and when he came back again the next day, he brought four or five colleagues from the Religious Affairs Committee, and Serov thought that his eyes were out when he saw it, and finally under Kadpov's persuasion, he invited two priests, two imams, and a lama in.

"That's how they usually dress?" Serov recognized the abilities of these people, and they all performed well just now, but this appearance was quite speechless. "Before I became chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee, I wore a priest's robe every day, which is our traditional ......" (to be continued. )