The National Mall in Washington, D.C., where the Lincoln Monument stands. Many people in the United States come here every day to commemorate the great president in American history, and unexpectedly, in the midst of the bustling crowds, the CIA is located nearby. As the biggest rival of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, and unlike the current Ministry of Internal Affairs and later the KGB, the CIA does not seem to mind leaking out into the public eye.

The CIA's emblem is uniquely shaped, alert, and in the center of a round chassis with blue and gold trim, and is a silver shield. In the center of the shield is a compass with sixteen red sharp corners, and on the shield is the head of the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States.

At this time, the director of the CIA was Dulles, who had just taken office, and the big man at the helm of the CIA had just appeared on the cover of Time magazine last year. Dulles, who had just brought down McCarthy this year, has reached the peak of his prestige within the CIA, even more so than those who had previously served as director for a long time.

The confrontation between Dulles and the Soviet Union actually began much earlier, even before the Cold War began. During Operation Sunrise, Alan Dulles negotiated with Karl Wolff, Chief of Staff of the German SS. After an attempt to deceive US President Franklin D. Roosevelt into making peace with Germany alone and confronting socialist countries, including the Soviet Union, and the socialist democratic parties, the Soviet People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs immediately took action to prevent the negotiations.

Operation Sunrise was not complete, Dulles still focused on the Soviet Union, and everyone in the CIA knew that Dulles's eyes did not leave the Soviet Union for a moment, and he was ready to engage in a confrontation with the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs for the sake of American victory.

Dulles, gray-haired and bespectacled, cross-legged listening to American country music, and with the temperament of Svenwen, most people think that he is a polite university professor, not the director of the CIA. Things always turn out unexpectedly. Dulles, a front-line agent, is more secure than all his predecessors, and the work of the CIA has been advancing under his influence.

The first person Truman met every day was always Dulles, the director of the CIA. The status of the CIA has been markedly improved. Although it cannot be compared with the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is much better than the British MI6.

"What did our friends do?" After listening to the music, Dulles pushed his eyes and asked methodically. In front of his subordinates, Dulles has always shown a calm attitude, and he is completely different from the vigor and resoluteness when pushing forward the action.

Henry, the director of the Intelligence Division, slowly opened the document and said unhurriedly, "According to the Italian side, the Soviet ambassador to Italy has been replaced, and the former ambassador has been transferred to the Soviet Union!" The new ambassador is a young man? ”

"Substitution?" Dulles habitually took out his pipe, took a deep breath and said, "Henry, please continue!" ”

"Yuri Efimovich Serov!?" "Twenty-seven years old, Russian, born in Azerbaijan, conscripted into the army at the end of the war, and then the war ended!" Returned to Azerbaijan to continue his studies, successively served as the head of the Komsomol section, the head of the Propaganda Department, the secretary of the Azerbaijani Komsomol and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, and had a good relationship with the first secretary Semychasny! During the tenure of the Minister of Internal Affairs, the prisons were emptied! According to public rumors, about a thousand people died! ”

"Hmm! It's very in the style of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and I don't know why our friends are keen on killing each other! Dulles did not hesitate to mock his opponent in front of his subordinates. The various movements in the Soviet Union have already surprised Dulles, you must know that he has been paying attention to the Soviet Union for more than ten years. Even Dulles was more familiar with this method than the average Soviet populace.

However, Dulles had to admit that this move of the Soviet Union gave the United States strong financial support, but it has not been able to establish its own intelligence network in the Soviet Union, because of the instability of the Soviet cadres, the establishment of the American intelligence network has been fruitless, and people who are clean themselves dare not have contact with foreigners, let alone be American spies? It is not without informants that the United States has developed in the Soviet Union, but it has never been able to form a network, and its role is better than nothing.

Regardless of the experts' analysis of the Soviet army's operational patterns and intentions in the coming years, these reports and analyses are completely developed on the basis of open information. They relied entirely on information from journalists or scholars, such as the order in which the Soviet leaders entered the meeting at meetings, the ranking of Soviet leaders in Pravda, and the public coverage of the Soviet army's major exercises.

This dilemma was almost well known at the top of the CIA, and Soviet work could be almost equated with failure. But on the other hand, the Soviet Union has always been wary of the US intelligence agencies, and it almost scared itself to death. Probably, the Soviets, who knew perfectly well that in the fifties, the CIA was incompetent in its work on Soviet infiltration, were only Serov himself.

"Director, you're right! According to the analysis of the data department, Serov should have caused public outrage in the Soviet Union, so he was sent to a foreign country as an ambassador! Henry said in a dignified manner, "Judging by his age, this person should be reckless, not super-long-minded, using the methods of the Ministry of Internal Affairs simply and rudely, and not a scheming figure, and the conclusion of the data department is that the threat is not too big and can be ignored!" ”

"I've always trusted the judgment of the Data Division!" Dulles nodded in approval of the words of the head of the intelligence department, "It's just a stunned young man who caused trouble in the Soviet Union, and I believe that he won't achieve anything in Italy!" Just stay tuned! ”

Stunned, he stood at the Rome train station, looking around blankly. Accustomed to seeing reinforced concrete concrete, Serov finally felt a little change, there was no red five stars everywhere to make a little uncomfortable, followed the driver sent by the embassy, Serov's diplomatic career began like this.

Serov, who was sitting in the back seat, got his first impression of Rome through the window, and the impression was generally quite good, but the only thing that was a little aesthetically fatigued was that in a short period of time, Serov, if he remembered correctly, had seen more than a dozen churches.

"What's the use of so much? On the same level as during the Russian Empire, a settlement with nothing, first build a church? Can you eat or drink? Serov's heart was constantly slandered, and he was suddenly surprised by the heavy atmosphere.