It's March, and the temperature is not so unbearable in general, except at night. Khrushchev's cottage-style villa was even warmer in spring, which quickly dispelled the chill on the two of them.

"The KGB and the GRU are the full strength of the Soviet intelligence system, my two intelligence chiefs, tell us what you think of Cuba!" Khrushchev touched his bald head, as if he needed to listen to someone else's opinion on the Cuban issue.

The two men stood on Khrushchev's left and right, representing the attitudes of the two intelligence services on which the Soviet Union relied the most. General Serov thought for a moment before he spoke, "From a military point of view, the location of Cuba is simply a perfect complement to our Soviet strategy, and such a superior geographical location is enough to make it difficult for Americans to sleep even if they do nothing......

"This must be premised on the fact that Cuba has established a socialist government, and I believe that the hostility of the Americans towards Cuba will help us to achieve our goal very quickly!" Serov added, "It's a very calculated deal, every bit of energy we put into supporting Cuba can make the embargo of the Americans two more cents, and the new president of the United States is John F. Kennedy, the kind of president who comes for the sake of elections, can do anything for the sake of electoral victory......

Serov's words were full of implicit warnings that he might do something unexpected in order to maintain his re-election as president of the United States. Of course, this includes war, and if Kennedy had been instigated in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he would certainly not have such a great reputation, let alone even think about being re-elected, because the strength of the United States is indeed far stronger than that of the Soviet Union, and Kennedy's victory based on the national strength of the United States has guaranteed his prestige, and only then will there be the possibility of re-election, and of course, the possibility of assassination will also appear.

On behalf of the KGB and the GRU, Serov gave Khrushchev his own advice, which was also what Khrushchev had in mind. Khrushchev really looked at the value of Cuba very much, of course, at this time Khrushchev did not have the idea of sending nuclear missiles there, but Serov knew that this idea would appear sooner or later, possibly in the next minute.

Khrushchev also took into account Serov's words, that Cuba must establish a socialist government, and now Cuba is at best a progressive government. Thinking of this, Khrushchev secretly said in his heart, "We must increase our goodwill towards Cuba!" ”

In the current world situation, if a small country is hostile to the United States, then pro-Soviet is almost an inevitable choice. Khrushchev believed that as long as the United States did not change this hostility, Cuba would soon become an important ally of the Soviet Union.

Waving his hand to let Serov and the two men out, it was not appropriate to discuss with the two intelligence chiefs when making such a decision, and Khrushchev was going to wait for the Cuban delegation to return and hold a meeting in the Central Presidium to discuss the Cuban issue.

Returning to the familiar Lubyanka Square 11, General Serov was full of emotion when he passed by the statue of Dzerzhinsky. Two years ago, he was the supreme leader here, but when he returned, he was a guest. General Serov didn't know what mood he was in accepting the invitation at the time, maybe he was nostalgic and wanted to come back to see the place where he had worked.

"At present, there are 25 departments of the KGB, a total of 200,000 personnel in the national organs, a total of 600,000 internal guards and border guards, and a total of 45,000 overseas forces affiliated with the KGB, and this number includes some military forces and bases, such as Aswan in Egypt and some strongholds in Syria!" Serov fetched coffee for his old boss. When handing General Serov coffee, he did not forget to mention, "Coffee is smuggled." The British and Americans don't sell us ......"

Soviet things can be described in one sentence, cheap things are especially cheap, but there are some things that money can't buy. For example, Serov once saw the wrench on the side of Brother Baghramyan, and directly set the price on the wrench, in fact, the Soviet Union and later North Korea were almost in the same situation, that is, blocked.

One ruble buys fifty kilograms of tomatoes, ten kilograms of potatoes from the market, ten roller skates in the park, four movies in the cinema, five ice cream cones and ten pieces of cream ice cream, six one-kilogram loaves of bread, five liters of fresh milk in bulk, and thirty-three glasses of sweetened lemonade.

The difference with North Korea is that. The Soviet Union had ample capacity to resist, and had ample natural resources and Allied support to sustain the current confrontation. But for example, the Soviet Union and the allies have nothing to do without it, such as the coffee in the hands of General Serov, which is more expensive to buy from companies controlled by Britain and the United States than smuggling from the KGB. In this case, it is naturally more cost-effective to smuggle, and it will be more difficult for the people to make a cup of coffee without anything, and this is the problem encountered by the Soviet Union. The ruble can buy a lot of things, but it can't buy even a little bit of coffee beans, because all the allies of the USSR don't produce it, and of course now it seems that there is a turnaround, Cuba produces coffee.

"Well, back then, I was also against the abolition of the KGB, but I was transferred to the GRU, but Sherepin and you withstood the pressure of the first secretary, and now the KGB has more institutions than when I was there, hehe!" The evaluation was made in a sarcastic tone, and the self-deprecation of General Serov made the conversation a little off the rails.

It is no wonder that the sour tone is clearly dissatisfied with the differential treatment, and it is no wonder that he was transferred from the position of chairman of the KGB because he opposed the KGB layoffs, only to find that the KGB is even bigger now than it was when he was there.

"First of all? We need to make achievements so that Comrade First Secretary knows what the KGB is really for. To put it simply, it is to reflect your own value! When the situation in the country is very good, the scale of the KGB will be more unsatisfactory, so as security cadres, we have to find something to do, and if we don't have it at home, then try it abroad! Serov said eloquently in front of the former chairman.

Quite simply, why else is Serov so keen on exporting revolution? In a sense, he was looking for something to do for the KGB, and hundreds of thousands of people in the entire department were not satisfied with who was the first secretary, let alone Khrushchev. Therefore, we must do things, we must carry out a global strategic layout, we must export revolutions, and we must subvert the regimes of other countries. The results were very gratifying, only Serov solved the corn problem, solved the problem of feed for the restoration of breeding and animal husbandry in the Soviet Union, and at the same time proved the value of the KGB in this regard.

As long as the value of the department was demonstrated, Khrushchev naturally would not cut off capable personnel, not to mention that the KGB itself was responsible for a large part of the funding. General Serov was mainly implicated in the affairs of his former secretary Petro Popov, as the head of the intelligence department, his own secretary was turned against him, which is the biggest incompetence.

Serov invited the former head of the KGB to Lubyanka as a guest, mainly because of his relationship with Georgia. Due to the nature of the GRU, it is impossible for the KGB to annex this department in the same way as it annexed the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and at most it will maintain the current leadership of the KGB over the GRU. However, Serov, who is also an intelligence unit, always has a layer of worry, he is afraid that this intelligence department that is out of sight will become a tool against the Shelepin group, which is quite possible.

"It is necessary to start with the KGB's command of the GRU!" Serov pondered for a long time, and felt that the breakthrough was in Roman's hands, and the current GRU gathered a group of old-school anti-rebel cadres who had been sent there from the KGB. Serov felt that he could think of a way to do this, such as his former head of the First Main Directorate, Panyushkin.

Serov's suggestion that the KGB and the GRU jointly form a computer department would allow for some intelligence sharing was perfectly justified in terms of work, and could even make the GRU head the department. There is only one small problem, and that is that the KGB's intelligence network is far larger than that of the GRU, and eventually the GRU will find that the control is still in the hands of the KGB.

"If we work together, we may become a computer network that the whole world can't live without!" Enlisting the support of the GRU is still for the establishment of the Internet, which was originally used for the military from the beginning, and new technologies will of course be applied to the military field first. This is not a sarcasm, but a necessity for all kinds of new technologies.

"Regarding some of the anti-infiltration work in the work of the National Security Council, the border pressure in Turkestan is very high, the Uzbeks belong to the cross-border ethnic group, part of it is in Afghanistan, where gun smuggling and a lot of crimes are very rampant, I wonder what the opinion of our presidium is?" Itvasov, who had just returned to the Rubyanka, saw the report and thought about something else, because he had taken a trip to the three Baltic countries and felt a lot of unfriendliness.

"We have so many soldiers, select soldiers from 300,000 internal guards and 300,000 border guards, and set up a special unit to deal with such incidents, the number of which is about 1,000 to 1,500 people, and we have to set up two teams, one called Alpha and the other called Vymsignal flags. After forming an army, they were first pulled to some areas to participate in actual combat. Serov said coldly, "At least let these soldiers have blood on their hands, and these two troops will deal with those armed bandits in the future......

In the first battle in history, the Alpha Group seized the heavily guarded Afghan Prime Minister's Office with lightning speed, and captured Amin, the chairman of the Afghan Revolutionary Council and the prime minister of the government. Together with the Vympel special forces, Serov has great expectations for the two forces. (To be continued.) )

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