Is it really an alternative tradition, and defeating the enemy must be the same as the enemy's life? The members of the religious committee, dressed in priest's robes and familiar with the texts of various religions, are doing the work of cleaning up these religious elements. It seems good to Serov, and the good can't be better.

In the evening, after inspecting the members of the Religious Affairs Committee, Serov proposed to KGB Chairman Sherepin that a religious affairs department be established in the General Directorate of Foreign Intelligence, which would become a department at the same level as ordinary directorates, and would deal with all kinds of foreign religious elements and open the way for the work of the First Directorate in the world. This process also required Serov's analysis and persuasion, which of course was not a problem, and the most he had done in the past few years was to persuade Shelepin.

In view of the glorious history of the KGB, several leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including Yagoda, Yezhov and Beria, were killed, and the death of these seniors gave Serov sufficient material to know what he should and should not do to save his life, especially the material obtained is not to expect to get a good name after working in the KGB.

Yagoda, Yezhov and Beria, except for Yezhov in the middle, who can really be called a murderer without blinking, whether it is Yagoda or Beria in the back, they all try to avoid involving innocent people when carrying out Stalin's orders. But the order is like this, two people cannot resist the order of the general secretary, not any general secretary is Stalin, and Stalin is not an ordinary general secretary, which can be seen from Beria's attitude before and after facing Khrushchev.

The lesson of the death of the three predecessors told Serov not to be kind when it was not necessary, Yagoda was cleaned up because he had been secretly fighting against Stalin's orders, and Beria's problem was even more serious, and before being cleaned up by Malenkov and Khrushchev, the work was to limit the huge power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was a particularly serious lesson for Serov. Now even Alexei, the remnants of Beria, think that his boss's behavior is very undesirable.

A month before Beria's killing, Beria began to plan measures to reform the national security system, which were implemented within a short period of time, starting with the transfer of the "production, business and construction units" of the large and powerful Ministry of the Interior to the various economic ministries. Within a month of Stalin's death, nearly thirty of these large units were transferred. Including the General Administration of Far East Construction, the General Administration of Special Petroleum Industry Construction, the General Administration of Highways, the General Administration of Railway Construction, the General Administration of Forestry Industry and so on. Later, also at Beria's initiative, the General Directorate of the Huge Correctional Camps and Correctional Institutions and its branches were transferred to the Ministry of Justice, which retained only special camps for "particularly dangerous State criminals" and camps for military criminals convicted of prisoners of war.

A few days ago, Alexei told Serov that the enterprises under the Ministry of Internal Affairs were more profitable and larger than the KGB enterprises abroad that he painstakingly operated all over the world. There are quite a few units in the forestry and oil industries, and now some of Serov's actions are only to restore some of the functions of Beria's subordinates in the era of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and even the nuclear industry was led by the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the beginning. The strength of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Beria era was far greater than now, and the KGB, which re-merged the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has only just had a little shadow of the original Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it is far from enough to use this institution to make people dare not clean him up.

"At the beginning, we thought that after the death of the General Secretary, Khrushchev and Malenkov were not their opponents at all, and at the same time, in the time of General Secretary Stalin, some cases did have a bad impact, and the reputation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was really too bad. That's why he set out to limit the departments he controlled, but he didn't expect this kind of initiative to express collective leadership. But it became the fuse that was removed. Alexey's exhortation often sounded in Serov's ears, "Yuri, the scope of the KGB's work can only get bigger and bigger, and it must not be reduced. ”

These words touched Serov considerably. It seems that Beria relented in the end, and was willing to change the bad reputation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and let go of a lot of rights belonging to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But because of the first time he underestimated the enemy, he paid the price of his life. The constant killing of the seniors taught Serov enough lessons. To ensure their own interests, it is necessary to firmly control the KGB, the huge enterprises and independent judicial power subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Beria era, Serov has no way to take it back, there is no progress at home for the time being, and he can only think of ways from abroad.

Beria's authority can be demonstrated in the fact that a few months before his arrest, the then secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and former Minister of State Security Ignatiev and Deputy Minister Liuming were removed from their posts and arrested. Can the current Shelepin arrest the secretary of the Central Committee? Kozlov was the secretary of the Central Committee, he was the immediate boss of Sherepin and others, and Sherepin had to inform Khrushchev even if he wanted to clean up the GRU, and the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs seemed to be about the same in 1960, but in fact they were far from the same in the eyes of Alexey.

"You set up a KGB surveillance network in enterprises across the country, which seems to be bigger than we did at that time, but in fact the KGB only has the right to supervise, and many enterprises of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at that time were ours, and all profits belonged to us. Even if the state does not give us a penny from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we will be able to maintain our own organization. When will you be able to feed all the current personnel of the KGB without spending a dime of the state, and only then will you have the initial strength to protect yourself, at that time you need to be careful not to be under the pressure of political means, take our boss as a lesson from the past, and be careful not to be assassinated by a sudden opponent. "This is Alexey's advice, don't be as underestimated as Beria.

Finances must be independent, power must be collected at every opportunity, and what made Serov think most was Alexey's uncertain words, Beria seemed to have a special advisory body in addition to his own subordinates, which seemed to be something similar to a shadow cabinet, but in the end because he himself was killed, this body did not work.

With Sherepin's approval, a new department was created in the work of the First Directorate, which dealt with religions all over the world, and this department had never appeared in Serov's memory in the First Directorate, which was a breakthrough.

"The first secretary has been asking me if the size of the KGB can be smaller, and you are constantly expanding our department, which makes me quite embarrassed!" On the one hand, he knew that Serov's proposal was for the development of the KGB, and on the other hand, he was also under pressure from Khrushchev, and he felt quite splinted.

"Work? This department is needed for work in the Middle East and many other places, after all, the local religious forces are not small, and how can they defeat the enemy without understanding it? Serov said very seriously, "It seems to me that the First General Directorate should have had such a department a long time ago, and it is a pity that the Religious Affairs Committee should only deal with domestic problems, and it should play a greater role......

"You're right, we're an offensive department at the end of the day!" Sherepin was very appropriated, and then turned to another question, "Representatives of many allied countries will arrive starting tomorrow, you go and receive them." Before the congress of the Communist Party and the Workers' Party of 81 countries, we will finish our affairs in the field of intelligence. We'll be busy ......."

"Understood!" Serov put on his big-brimmed hat, and the really busy things were yet to come. The number of people at the congress of communist parties around the world was much larger than the last one, and there were more than 20 more parties, and only more than 60 countries participated in the last congress. However, it seems that this is also the last congress, if Serov is not mistaken, after this congress, because after the split between China and the Soviet Union there were no more congresses of Communist and Workers' Parties on a worldwide scale. The so-called World Congress that came later could not be compared with the Congress held in the Soviet Union now, and usually fifty or sixty parties came, adding up to less than 200 people. It is simply not comparable to the scale of a large delegation that is now a participating party.

Two days later, Serov received the intelligence chiefs of the allies on behalf of the Soviet State Security Council, and Ilyiscu, Korzinsky, Marcus, and Russac, these old friends, needless to say, the new head of the Czechoslovak Security Service, Kapphot, was also a figure welcomed by Serov, and among the so-called Warsaw Pact allies of the Soviet Union, only the GDR and Czechoslovakia could really share the pressure a little, and the other countries were really not very good in industry. Needless to say, Poland has such a problem, except for the population, Poland has no good place within the Warsaw Pact. Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria are a few countries that are either helping or dragging behind.

It was not that Serov was prejudiced against Poland, but that there was Bulgaria in terms of loyalty to the Soviet Union, Romania in terms of spiritual outlook, and the GDR and Czechoslovakia in terms of industrial scale, and he thought about it for half a year without thinking that there was anything in Poland that could help the Soviet Union, and maybe those tens of millions of people were still of some use.

With the dark purpose of using the intelligence system to control these countries, Serov suddenly found himself playing the role he usually despised, actively co-opting his allies and feeding them with blood. The vast majority of the KGB's security cadres have returned to their posts, and this time the meeting with the intelligence services of the Warsaw Pact allies does not need to go to the cinema, and even the KGB auditorium does not need to be moved, and directly finds a large conference room at Lubyanka Square 11. (To be continued.) )

PS: I also said that I would resume the normal update.,It turned out to be two more chapters today.,Hey......