Chapter 327: It's been a lively year
Everyone knows that the United States did not expect the Soviet Union to dare to send nuclear bombs into Cuba, and apart from the Americans, even the Soviet representative to the United Nations, Zolin, and the ambassador to the United States, Dobrynin, knew nothing. The reason why such an important representative stationed abroad was concealed was that it was extremely confidential and could not be informed by telephone or telegram, and second, the ambassador did not know about it, and if the United States questioned it, the ambassador would not be weak when arguing.
In the next two months, according to the plan jointly formulated by the Ministry of Defense and the KGB, nearly 100 giant ships will depart from different ports around the world to transport the weapons and personnel that the Soviet Union has prepared to Cuba, and the personnel who have already arrived from the Soviet Union are just appetizers, and each freighter makes an average of three round-trips, and after this precise calculation, 70,000 Soviet soldiers and 100 medium-range ballistic missiles can be transported to Cuba.
The KGB also prepared six 10,000-ton fishing boats as carriers, which stayed in the Atlantic Ocean and disguised themselves as distant-water fishing fleets on standby. The mission of this formation of distant-water fishing fleet was deliberately discovered by the Americans. The entire distant-water fishing fleet would depart from the Soviet mainland after the United States learned that the Soviet Union had arrived with Cuban missiles.
On the KGB side, Semychasny as chairman mainly focused on the Cuban side, while Serov focused on the Sino-Indian border, so there was such a situation in Lubyanka at this time, the first and second in command had their own busy things, and as a result, Itvasov, who usually did not have much presence, became the person in charge of the recent period, and various meetings were presided over by Itvasov, who was already in his fifties, and Semychasny and Serov were often nowhere to be seen.
At this time, Khrushchev summoned a mysterious figure in Moscow, Alekseev, who was from Cuba and was a counselor of the Soviet embassy in Cuba. Khrushchev wanted to give him an account of a top-secret matter concerning Cuba, but the Soviet ambassador to Cuba, Kudryatsev, was not summoned. The fundamental reason is because, albeit a counselor, Alekseev's real identity is that of the head of the KGB in the intelligence organization of the Americas.
Khrushchev first told him that the Central Committee had decided to let him take over as ambassador to Cuba, and asked him one more thing: "If we decide to deploy nuclear warheads in Cuba in case of an American attack and invasion." Do you think Comrade Castro will agree to this action?
Alekseev hesitated for a moment and replied to Khrushchev: "Because Castro's entire strategy is to unite Latin American countries and revolutionary organizations to resist the provocation of the United States, but now it is different from the past, I believe that Castro can also understand that the sympathy of the surrounding Latin American countries cannot change the huge advantage of the United States in national strength, so this is the agreement between Raul Castro and us, and now is the time." β
On one Sunday, Khrushchev invited him to the dacha for tea. Also present were Gromyko and senior generals of the Soviet missile forces, Khrushchev said: "The Central Committee has made a decision that Alekseev's task is to announce to Castro that the balance of power is unfavorable for Cuba, and in order to save the revolutionary regime, the Soviet Union will deploy nuclear missiles in the region with Castro's approval." But don't tell them directly that the USSR has made a decision, understand? β
Khrushchev further noted. After everything is arranged, the United States will not reveal the news before the congressional elections. When the election is over, the United States can only accept this fait accompli, just as the United States deployed missiles in Turkey, and the Soviet Union also silently accepted it.
Alekseev was accompanied by Marshal Blyuzov and several nuclear missile specialists. The Soviet Union planned to drop a hundred medium-range nuclear missiles here, the range of which was guaranteed to destroy any American city and garrison 70,000 troops. Castro reacted calmly after listening to the suggestion. , he himself agreed to this plan. It didn't take long for Castro to respond positively to the Soviet Union, because all the work had already been done, including Che Guevara and Raul Castro, who were strong supporters of the plan.
Serov, who was in the Lubyanka, received an intelligence. The KGB South Asia Force sent a telegram, saying: "The Indian army has crossed the 'wheat line' and invaded the Kejielang River valley in Cuona County, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet, and established an invasion base in the Tudong area, in an attempt to change the direction of the 'wheat line' and use the Latta Mountain (called "Takla Mountain") ridge about 11 kilometers north of the line as the boundary. β
According to the description of the forces stationed in South Asia of the First General Directorate, India's forward policy is still ongoing, and small-scale frictions occur from time to time, but the current intelligence analysis of the possibility of war is not high, and Serov can only smile at this analysis, he still doesn't know what his compatriots think? China's secret preparations now are actually the same as those of the Soviet Union in Cuba at this time, and they are all adhering to the thinking that those who secretly enter villages and shoot guns do not want to. In this case, the KGB South Asian forces, which are not the focus of the area in themselves, can find something to have ghosts.
If Serov hadn't been urging Kudryas, commander of the Central Asian border guards, to pay attention to the movements over there and send more reconnaissance planes to take a look, he would not have even been able to catch photos of supplies being delivered to the border at this time. Serov needs this border war to prove his theory, so this time his role is not completely to help his homeland in his previous life, but also to help himself and find a support point for his ideas. It is a well-known fact that after the Korean War, China relied on its own forces to wage wars for a very short time, adhering to the idea of hit-and-run, and this kind of war was usually short-lived, so that other countries did not have time to react, and often just when they were ready to intervene, they had already begun to withdraw their troops.
This kind of rogue tactics usually leads to little sanctions, and the Sino-Indian war began during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and when the Soviet Union and the United States were done with their own affairs, China began to withdraw its troops. It's all a tightrope walker. Later, the border war with Vietnam was the same, maintaining a low-intensity battle, which put the Soviet Union in a dilemma, and there was nothing to do with a few artillery shots on the border, and the Soviet Union seemed to have more to gain than to lose if it wanted to interfere, and it seemed that there was no big brother if it didn't interfere.
Serov is ready to learn a little from this border war, and with a learning attitude, plan a surprise attack on Turkey, breaking through Turkey's natural blockade of the Black Sea. The war should be controlled within 20 days, and the same hit-and-run tactics are the same, and the time for the United States to react and mobilize forces is enough for the Soviet Union to achieve its goals. As for this preparation time, he will not lack time for long-term planning.
While contemplating this border war, Serov could not help but think of the border dispute between the Soviet Union and China, the Soviet border guards were a military force subordinate to the KGB, and he had the responsibility to protect his subordinates from harm. If there is a real dispute at that time, it will be quite difficult for him as the leader of the KGB, and he can't even dare to act against the United States, and he will be instigated when he encounters China, right? So it's best not to get into a dispute over this.
"Yuri, now in terms of the territory of Algeria, the Algerian People's Army under the command of the Polish Military Advisory Corps, and volunteers from other Arab countries have controlled more than half of the territory of Algeria, and now Comrade Korzinski needs our support to solve the problem once and for all." Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky, head of the First Directorate, said with a telegram from the Middle East Division and the French Africa Division.
Those intelligence officers working in the local area naturally did not know that their boss had already betrayed the Poles, and thought that they had witnessed the victory of a revolution, which was naΓ―ve.
"Controls most of the territory, desert, huh?" Serov's unfazed cynicism, which in his opinion was not very basic in any place occupied by the Arabs. And there is also a very interesting phenomenon, the Arab world powers, such as Egypt and later Saudi Arabia, are not as good as Syria and Iraq in their own countries. Iraq has two river basins, Syria has the eastern plains, and they basically have their own food. On the contrary, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are the real countries on the slope, so Serov has been focusing on Sudan, Syria and Iraq, which are all countries with basic conditions for self-reliance, and the development may be a little slower, but in the long run it is definitely worth the money.
"They are preparing to launch a full-scale attack on France in three months' time, and I have heard that there are already many tribes in the French-occupied areas ready to cooperate with the Algerian People's Army." Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky said very seriously.
Three months later? Isn't this the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis? Serov's stunned silent nose, it seems that the world in October will be quite lively, Poland will lose, the Soviet Union will draw, and China will win. I wonder if the Americans will celebrate their success in repelling an all-out offensive of the socialist camp in 1962 in their internal propaganda? Hey? Isn't this a good time to spread a wave of conspiracy theories? Scare and scare American civilians......
"Well, I don't know how much the French are going to pay for our list, the price is too low, even if they defeat the Algerian People's Army, it will be impossible to clear the soil of guerrilla warfare!" Serov thought for a moment and said, "Old director, you and Comrade Itvasov should discuss and decide on this matter, I and Semychasny should not have much time recently, and Comrade Itvasov may have to preside over the work here at the headquarters......"
Once the Sino-Indian war broke out, it would definitely not be possible for him to stay in Moscow, very simply, there were too many big people here in Moscow, and he could not guarantee that his ideas would not be disturbed, so it was better for him to leave Moscow during the war and go to Almaty or Tashkent, where the cadres could not interfere with him in terms of rank or status. In this way, he is responsible for monitoring the border area between China and India. (To be continued.) )