Starting today, the head of the Soviet State Security Council has changed, and Serov has once again set a new record for the number one leader in the ministries in Khrushchev's administration after taking up the chairmanship, and Semychasny, who originally held this record, was 37 years old when he became chairman of the KGB, and Serov is 36 years old this year.

In this history, there is a saying about this period of the KGB, especially the last KGB chairman Serov, who built the KGB into a comprehensive department that integrates internal and external affairs. Of course, there are also some opinions that if General Serov, who began at the time of the establishment of the KGB, is also included, the KGB of this period should actually be the period of the Four Thanks.

There was no such rhetoric within the KGB, because over time, Soviet security cadres discovered that Serov had been chairman of the KGB for much longer than the other three times, and by the time Serov finally stepped down as chairman of the KGB, the institution had already been heavily branded with the Ksieh.

After two more days of successful conclusion of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, Khrushchev nominally retained his post as secretary of the Central Committee of Kozlov, perhaps in the hope that one day Kozlov would be able to recover and return to work. The two nominal new secretaries of the Central Committee became Brezhnev, who was also the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the nominal head of state of the USSR.

But Brezhnev and Podgorny are in charge of similar work, and ordinary people really can't figure out who Khrushchev likes more, which may still need time to test, I believe that after a year or two, people will have their own evaluation in their hearts, but at this stage this has nothing to do with Serov, he must now take over the main work of the KGB.

As the newly appointed chairman of the KGB, Serov also had to take care of Semychasny's ideas, and the information he got from Shelepin, he discussed with Brezhnev to make Semychasny the first deputy chairman of the Russian Soviet, which Brezhnev also agreed, and there must be a quid pro quo, but now Serov does not know.

On the day of the end of the plenum of the Central Committee of the USSR, Serov summoned the heads of the major directorates of the KGB and the officials of the organs of Lubyanka Square No. 11 to give a farewell party to Semychasny. The venue was set in the KGB auditorium, and more than 400 security cadres in Moscow were present.

"Under the leadership of Chairman Semychasny, we have made remarkable progress in our work, and for this reason I propose to toast our President from victory to victory in his new post." Serov shouted as he held a full glass of vodka.

Serov, Itvasov, Sakhatowsky, Serdyuko, Roman, Kadpov, Kibanov, Valentin and a large number of other heads of the Main Directorate gathered Semychasny in the middle and raised a glass to Semichasny.

The music sounded, the dance began, and everyone was scattered in all corners of the auditorium, and some people danced in the hall, looking for their own women to dance gracefully to the music, showing a different side than usual.

"Thank you, Yura!" Semychasny looked at the center of the field with his wine glass and whispered, "Actually, I understand what you mean, this drinking party is a comfort to me, maybe I am the most non-existent KGB chairman." ”

Stopping Serov's explanation, Semychasny continued, "I have no opinion on the fact that the first secretary has a fancy for his resume in the security organs, but it's a pity that it's been two years, don't worry, I'm just a little sorry, but I have a lot of respect for our friendship!" ”

"Thank you for your understanding!" Serov could feel the helplessness of Remichassny, and in the original history, the chairman of the KGB was able to do it in 1967, in which he led the KGB to turn around against Khrushchev and played an immeasurable role in the Brezhnev coup.

The KGB is a huge organization with nearly one million members, and if it plays its part, the coup d'état will be discovered and destroyed in the bud, and there will be no possibility of a surprise attack. The biggest possibility is that some cadres have just started to connect with each other, and these situations should be known to Khrushchev, and then the coup d'état that is still in the bud disappears invisibly as Khrushchev cleaned up a few guys who started with it.

As long as the KGB turned its guns around and played a role in the coup, the newly appointed Brezhnev would naturally find a way to dismantle the KGB, and Chairman Semychasny was able to do it in 1967 entirely because at the beginning of Shelepin's forces were still there, and as Brezhnev slowly solved Sherepin's forces by cutting sausages, it was only a matter of time before Semychasny was cleaned up in the end.

So it's better not to have this coup d'état, it's good for everyone, and if some cadres are dissatisfied, let them be dissatisfied, Khrushchev will clean up these people, do you really think that a first secretary is so easy to overthrow under normal circumstances?

After bidding farewell to Semychasny, Serov first faced the question of the organizational structure of the KGB, in other words, who should be the vacant first deputy chairman? This choice was not difficult, and at a meeting of the KGB Presidium, Serov, who sat in the central position, nominated his former boss, Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky, the head of the First General Directorate, to also serve as the first deputy chairman of the KGB, and the proposal passed without hindrance.

Sakhatowsky has been the head of the 1st Main Directorate for several years, and he is quite qualified in terms of qualifications.

"The first secretary's trust in us is obvious, and as for the focus of our work in the future, I have always believed that our work should continue to increase its strength abroad, and the KGB should mercilessly eliminate and crack down on certain countries that are anti-Soviet or have anti-Soviet tendencies, so we need a new General Directorate of Response, which is specifically responsible for dealing with these countries!" Serov, who tilted his head, said in a lazy tone, "This General Directorate is the General Directorate of Special Operations, and my personal opinion is to temporarily put it on the establishment of the Eleventh General Administration, I don't know if you have any opinions?" ”

Naturally, there is no opinion, expanding the organizational department means more job opportunities, and external work means more financial support, how can anyone oppose it?

"Then I continue the topic just now, about the planning of some combat forces in our department, if comrades have an opinion that can interrupt me, it doesn't matter. What I mean by this is that there should be a certain degree of reorganization of the various military forces and the professionalism of the armed forces under them. Serov put his hands together and said sincerely, "When dealing with some domestic problems, we will not fall into a passive situation." ”

The armed forces of the KGB are mainly concentrated in two major areas, one is the combat unit mainly of the border guards, mainly in the border areas, and the other is the former internal affairs forces of the State Security Council, and the current internal guard army. But in fact, the major general directorates of the KGB also have military forces under them, and the first, second, and fifth directorates, each with a varying number of special infiltration units, are used to deal with emergencies. In addition to these three directorates, the traffic guard unit of the General Administration of Traffic Management, the scientific research guard unit of the General Administration of Defense Science and Technology, the cadre guard unit of the Ninth Police General Bureau, and the organ security unit of the 15th General Directorate, the basic self-protection force of the KGB, and the troops of the 15th General Directorate are stationed in the major organs of the KGB as guards.

"In this regard, we and our allies can cooperate, and in the field of overseas special operations, we must not fight alone, but must pull our allies to act together, and it will become the norm in the future." Serov finished his thoughts and waited for the opinions of others.

"There is no problem with the reorganization of the guard units of our subordinate General Bureau, of course it is better to be more professional, but do we need the strength of allies to fight abroad?" Itwasov raised his own doubts.

"Of course, we can't bear all the pressure on ourselves, and besides, their strength is not weak, at least not weak!" Serov took it for granted, in fact, not all Eastern European countries have intelligence departments to manage border guards like the Soviet Union, the Polish Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security of the GDR, the Ministry of State Security of Czechoslovakia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary, the General Directorate of Internal Security of Romania, the Bulgarian National Security Council, these departments all have their own characteristics, and they cannot all be generalized, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, Serov cannot let them go, no one in the intelligence department dares to say that he can do it to the extreme, Even the KGB, which considers itself to be the best in the world, must admit that the intelligence services of various countries have their own unique advantages.

Then he talked about the direction of the world's surveillance issues, and Serov ended the last meeting of the chairman of the KGB after he became the chairman of the KGB, and this time the first meeting of the head of the KGB was much smoother than the first meeting between Sherepin and Semychasny, compared with the previous two, Serov was completely a native cadre who grew up in the KGB, and almost no one regarded Serov as an outsider, and some issues were completely insiders in the leadership of insiders.

"From now on, the Fifth General Administration will focus on monitoring the movements of the cultural circles in China, and all writers, writers, and artists who show their yearning for the West under various circumstances should all set up security files, and the cultural circles must be kept in check, and the fifth column must not be allowed to breed in the cultural circles."

Soon the news that Serov took over as chairman of the KGB spread throughout the Soviet Union, and security cadres in many places knew that this time the KGB finally ushered in a cadre who had really grown up in the system, which should be a good thing, right? (To be continued.) )