Chapter 481: The Incident in the Gulf of Tonkin
"I didn't expect that I came out of the Arctic Circle, and the Soviet football team won the championship, what a painful realization?" Serov, who had just come out of the Arctic Circle posing as a geologist, read the Pravda newspaper with great emotion and shook his head slightly in his heart. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe news that the Soviet football team has won two consecutive championships in the European Championship must have been sensational, and maybe there will be celebrations, but he did not see all this.
Hungary also advanced to the semi-finals after beating a declining France, while the other two semi-finalists were Spain and defending champions the Soviet Union. Spain beat Ireland over two legs in the quarter-finals with an impressive 5-1 and 2-0 victory. They were chosen to host the tournament on the condition that the Soviet Union be accepted. In the previous European Championships, they failed to qualify due to General Franco's refusal to approve the Spanish team to play against the Soviet Union. Four years on, the political feud has been forgotten, and this time football is taking center stage.
On the other hand, the Soviets were desperate to defend their title, knocking out Denmark 3-0 in Barcelona, with 1960 champions Ivanov and Pondernik scoring a goal each. In the other semi-final, Spain eliminated Hungary 2-1 after extra time, with Real Madrid striker Amancio scoring the winning goal. With midfield star Luis Suarez in midfield, Spain were confident ahead of the final.
The final championship and runner-up match was between the Soviet football team and the Spanish football team, and the Soviet football team won 2-1, mainly because Spain's Suarez and Pereda were careless and had food poisoning, so the Soviet football team luckily completed the two consecutive European Championship championships.
"I remember that I asked the Operations Enforcement Department to cause a car accident, but I didn't expect it to turn out to be food poisoning!" Serov also had to admit that it was actually more perfect than he had imagined. It should be the plan that Sakhatowsky asked Mendelev to revise after learning about it, and he is still prone to brain fever sometimes, and with Sakhatowsky, who has seen a lot of battles, he can avoid making a lot of mistakes.
The final result is good, the USSR has won the honor, and the KGB can also divide the spoils with FIFA. There is also a less obvious winner is Elizabeth Taylor in London, the woman took advantage of this European Championship final to brush up on a presence, gathering a group of stars on the football field to help Spain, there is a kind of star called Blanket Star in later generations, I don't know what her behavior is. I believe it will also be beneficial to the British group controlled by this senior KGB agent in the future, right?
It's still a matter of money, take the two departments of the National Security Council and the NKVD as examples, when he first became the chairman of the KGB last year, he was excited and ordered that the number of children raised must be taken as a reference criterion for promotion, which means that the promotion of young cadres depends on how many children there are, and it is also a call for more children in the corresponding Soviet Union, so this year's Chairman Serov will start to repay the debt, and within a year, the KGB, the GRU, and the security personnel under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, anti-counter workers, More than 200,000 newborns were reported.
According to the standard he set last year, the KGB would have to spend more than 40 million rubles more than 40 million rubles in a year. Today's financial pressure on the KGB seems to have deepened under the leadership of his wise and great chairman. At the same time, he has to save money to grab money at the end of the Breston Forest system, so Serov has been more worried lately.
Thinking of this, Serov took out a photo, on which a kid looked quite cute, at least that's what he thought, the photo was Harold of MI6 in the Cambridge Five? Gold? Philby sent it, the age is right, if that's right, this is his own child.
At this moment, the phone on the table rang, Serov picked up the phone, frowned slightly, agreed twice, put down the phone and said to himself, "Why did this due date fall together?" "The life of a winner in life is not in vain, he has enjoyed the process and is now ready to accept the results.
If there is no mistake in calculating the time, Serov will have to show the joy of being a father three times this month, and Valya will not have to say that everyone has already returned to Moscow to prepare for childbirth. Because there was a huge gap in the population of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, it was extremely interested in having children, and even left all the children who did not know whether they were Germans or Soviets because of the war, in order to replenish the population lost due to the war, which was enough to one million.
The number of soldiers killed on the battlefield in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War was eight or nine million, but the number of people killed was close to 30 million, that is to say, at least 20 million people died were civilians. It's just that the Soviet Union resisted hard, and Serov in his previous life didn't feel much about it, after all, Russia was only a foreign country, and for a while he was a fan of the Third Reich, but now it's different, he is a Soviet, and only then do you know how valuable these lost populations are.
If the Soviet Union had really retaliated more than at the beginning, there would have been no GDR at all, and today the killing of 16 or 7 million people in the GDR would not have made up for the population lost by the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.
"Having more children is also contributing to the country." Serov, who arrived in Gatsna, shamelessly made a reason for his behavior, this reason was so glorious and great, if it weren't for his own salary, he was really ready to find dozens of hairy girls to give birth to his own children.
"Is it just these days? Don't worry, I'll be with you! Giving Isemotny and Lukani a hug, Serov rarely showed a trace of warmth to the two women, and after sleeping for a long time, there was always such a little affection.
On that day, seeing the scene of two women holding their children with weak expressions but with relief, Serov was still moved, and gently kissed the foreheads of the two women, and whispered, "I owe you, if it weren't for me, your life might not be so hard, and you don't need to hide here." ”
"Director, you were the one who saved the two of us from the fate of the usual female spies, and Lukani and I would like to thank you." Isemimoteni stroked the ends of her wet hair and said sincerely, "The two of us are very lucky, ordinary female spies don't have children at all!" ”
This is true, female spies generally will never have children, the KGB is very strict in this regard, afraid of causing a spy to defect because of family bonds, so once a female spy stationed abroad is pregnant, she will usually be killed, and the same is true for male spies, otherwise Stashinsky will not defect.
"When we become truly strong, we won't need you girls to make such a big sacrifice." Skipping the title of director, Serov wanted to speak again and again, erotic spies are inevitable, it is just a relationship between more and less, and it is purely comforting to speak like this.
Mao Mei's recovery speed is very fast, the next day the two of them no longer have to lie on the hospital bed, if it is replaced by a Chinese woman, it is estimated that it will take a month, which makes him have to sigh that Mao Zi's physique is really good, Isemotny and Lukani are like this, and Valya is also like this, after giving birth to a child and resting for a day, she will come out alive and vibrant, with the style of Lao Maozi.
Returning to Moscow non-stop, Serov had to have this experience again, anxiously waiting outside the delivery room, in fact, he didn't wait too long, Valya gave birth to several children, this time it went extremely well, half an hour later, Serov became a father again, "It's a son again, I've had a lot of sons." ”
"What? Don't you like boys? Wouldn't it be good to have a few more agents for you to choose? The corners of Valya's mouth, which was in good spirits, turned up slightly, and a sly smile flashed on her face, "This gives you a lot more choice!" ”
"That's what I said!" Serov glanced at his daughter, who was full of curiosity, in fact, it is good to have a beautiful and obedient daughter.
The world is not equal between rich and poor, and the earth is unevenly cold and warm, unlike Serov, who has just left the Arctic Circle. At this time, the Beibu Gulf was calm, and unlike the war-torn land battlefield, the traces of war were calmly felt here. The destroyer "Maddox" was gathering intelligence, and suddenly the alarm on the radar was loud, and the captain received a report, "It's a torpedo boat from the Vietnamese side." ”
"Sink them!" The captain did not hesitate at all to give the battle order. Captain Ogier's voice was heard through the equipment to the whole ship, and in an instant the guns of the destroyer "Maddox" burst into fire and launched a ferocious artillery attack on the North Vietnamese torpedo boats.
"The Gulf of Tonkin incident?" Serov immediately checked this well-known incident after receiving the KGB's information on the Southeast Asian intelligence network, but it seemed to be a little earlier.
"The raging war is scorching the land of Vietnam, but in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin dozens of nautical miles from land, the calm sea makes people feel like they are in a war zone. That afternoon, however, everything changed. At that time, the US Navy's destroyer USS Maddox was carrying out a "hydrographic study" mission in this sea area, when three torpedo boats of unknown nationality suddenly appeared on the horizon, and they sailed toward the Maddox at high speed and launched torpedoes to attack the US ship. The next day, the US media reprinted the statement of the US Navy spokesman.
"The U.S. military-industrial complex still can't help it, and is it starting to prepare to pick it up in the battlefield of Vietnam?" After a while, Serov received a phone call from the Kremlin, and he did not dare to delay at all to listen to the Central Presidium's listening opinion on the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin Gulf.
This was the first confrontation between the US Navy and the North Vietnamese Navy, and it seems that the United States was also aggressive this time in terms of public opinion, and this situation immediately attracted the attention of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, hoping that the KGB would collect information in this regard. (To be continued.) )