Compared with Huaxia, which is the operator behind the scenes, so it knows the whole picture of the matter, and the United States, which is the culprit, although it does not know the whole picture, but can also understand most of the joints, the reaction of the European Union is somewhat sluggish.

Mainly, since the outbreak of the Balkan crisis at the end of March, they have changed from being a talker about the situation in the Balkans to a soy sauce player.

The situation was completely dominated by the Allied Command in Campania and the Allied Air Command Center in Emilia Romagna.

The main purpose of the U.S. military's Allied operation was to disrupt Europe and run on the euro, and in addition, it had long been realized that these European allies were extremely unreliable, and the intelligence was basically sent to Lubyanka Square at the same time.

Although the Cold War is over, the inertia is still there, so it is naturally impossible to be open and honest with the European "allies".

In this context, most European countries are in fact highly dependent on their foreign media for information access to the front.

……

So he called acquaintances who worked in Brussels and asked if there was a large-scale military operation in the evening.

However, overconfidence and the fanning of the flames by the Americans in the back still allowed this relatively rational voice to be drowned out in the end.

Because after the B2 was shot down, in order to completely blow up the wreckage and rescue the pilot, the US military sent the Roosevelt out on all decks and launched an attack wave with extremely high intensity, so although the overseas offices of the latter two also knew about the explosion, they were subject to strong electromagnetic interference and were unable to transmit the information back to China at the first time.

Therefore, Sanson's first reaction was to suppress this matter first.

In normal times, it seems that there is nothing wrong with relying on this method, and even because of the fact that they are on the front line and can go on a rampage on certain occasions by relying on their status as a journalist, the speed of obtaining information is a little faster than that of Allied commands, which rely on long-range reconnaissance and electronic warfare methods.

This is completely different from the nature of a media broadcast signal outage.

The first to discover that something was wrong was the French Directorate-General for External Security.

After finally recovering, he quickly raised his head and looked at the TV screen in front of him.

This is actually understandable -

Three GBU31.

However, as a high-level French intelligence officer, his contacts in Europe are always much richer than Ding Gaoheng's.

"Perhaps...... Can we try to find a third country to coordinate it? ”

"Director, we just received a message from the staff in Brussels."

Then, suddenly, the relay signal was cut off.

Now he naturally speaks with a bit of yin and yang.

It's too rough to behave.

There are agents hidden in the media, which are basically open cards for the Russians.

The same goes for Sanson.

And then......

"In any case, we don't have any evidence yet, and we don't even know for sure exactly what happened."

At first, Sang Song didn't take it seriously, and his first reaction was to call his friend who works at the national television station.

As a result, the answer was that not only was there no large-scale military operation in the evening, but even a request from the US military was forwarded.

The head of the Federal Intelligence Service, Volcker Rüdler, was the traditional German figure, with an old-fashioned and unsmiling personality, and seeing that the other two colleagues seemed to have a tendency to infighting, he quickly made a round in the middle:

"When the two Germany were reunified, in order to show goodwill, our intelligence bureau absorbed some members of Stacy, although the work arranged did not touch the core business, but we can still use these connections to contact our old rival FSB and let them act as intermediaries."

The latter was about to turn off the voice system, but heard the phones ringing from Crosetto and Ruedler.

After a routine fussy of arrogance and incompetence, all three realized that the biggest trouble at the moment was that they had cut off official communication with the Balkans since the Allied operation began.

Crosetto seized every opportunity to continue the yin and yang weirdness:

If it wasn't controlled, could it be that they could all be hung up?

As long as you put the pot on the enemy's head, you will be innocent.

Who can be approached to administer justice?

Our intelligence officers should have been praised by someone.

It's just that this is not the other.

The result was not at all surprising.

Under the pressure of throwing the pot, Sanson rushed from his home to the office of the General Intelligence Bureau half an hour later, and held a video conference call with two other colleagues who were also forced to work overtime for fear of backing the blame.

At this point, Sanson finally began to realize that something was not quite right.

Crosetto was one of the key proponents of this view.

But whether in terms of ability or willingness, the other party has no reason to do it at this point in time.

He was still a little worried about losing face.

Sang Song is still a little worried:

"Now that we're going to contact each other like this, will it ......?"

Being promoted by the security agencies of the other side is a huge dereliction of duty on the part of the leadership of the intelligence agencies.

Although the arrest of intelligence agents, along with unwitting real media workers, is a major event that can shake the people, it is impossible to really hide it.

None of them can be reached.

“？”

Although all three of them turned off their voices, judging by the ghostly expressions of the other two.

In fact, at this point, it is impossible for normal people to think that their family members were directly smashed by six aerial bombs.

In addition to being in a hurry, you can only take the risk of going out in all directions without clear instructions to see if you can gather some useful information.

European countries are already highly dependent on the US military for their defense.

Then I soon got the news that the relay source had suddenly disappeared.

"Let's talk about the exchange of intelligence personnel later, the top priority is that we need to know as much as possible, and this time it is not only our agents who have lost contact, but also many people from several media outlets, who will not be able to hide it for too long, and if we don't know anything about the questioning at that time, the situation will be in trouble......

This contact, but there is a problem with the contact-

"But...... It is also possible that the FSB is behind the scenes, you must know that the TV broadcast signal at that time was suddenly cut off, and all our media and intelligence personnel were cut off almost at the same time, and such a high-level counterintelligence operation may be difficult to do by the security services in the Balkans alone. ”

Allied aircraft are not allowed to fly south of 45°N.

The other party even asked him to help ask what the reason was.

In a very short time, the news spread to the top of the leading countries of the European Union.

In other words, even if you want to negotiate with the other party now, you can't say anything.

Simone Crosetto, head of the Italian Foreign Intelligence and Security Service, shrugged, apparently not very optimistic about this line of thought:

Everyone knows that this resignation is nonsense, but for European countries that dare not speak out and do not want to make a big deal of it, it is a relatively easy choice to calm things down.

All three picked up the phone almost at the same time.

Once you really tear your face, there is no room for maneuvering.

It was not until almost the morning that the United States gave an explanation that "the anti-aircraft missile missed the target and hit it by mistake."

If you are really messed with by the other party's security agencies, you will basically not be able to escape.

The news they received should be the same......

It's not that the agency is very capable, but that their director, Yannick Sanson, like Ding Gaoheng, was watching TV at 23:47 local time because of insomnia.

At present, only the US military is in use.

In fact, even at this point, he still didn't think about his family being killed, mainly worried about whether it would be controlled by the local counterintelligence agency.

After some coordination, the opinions of the three people were finally reluctantly unified.

As a result, within a few hours, several international media outlets exposed a clear photo of an unexploded bomb -

Sang Song was already insomnia and couldn't sleep, and when he was so shocked, he didn't feel sleepy at all.

Now, even covering the lid has become a luxury.

Of course, the British were there, but in the eyes of a Frenchman in Sanson, the Angsa barbarians across the Channel were really not their own.

In the hours that followed, however, the EU countries did little more than call an emergency meeting of leaders and say a few nonsense at the usual press conferences.

But last night, for well-known reasons, these media ......

Therefore, Sanson's first instinct was to contact his counterparts in Germany and Italy.

Lost contact.

So, as is customary, he first informed the Inter-Ministerial Intelligence Commissioner, and then contacted his subordinates and asked them to contact the intelligence officers in the Balkans through "special channels" to confirm the situation on the ground.

Ruedler never expected that the possibility that he had just casually imagined would become true, his brain buzzed instantly, his eyes went black, and he almost lost consciousness directly.

Just as he was thinking this, on the other side of the meeting, the phone on Sanson's desk suddenly rang.

Although it is "media", a significant part of its staff is almost semi-open agents of intelligence agencies.

"It's okay, anyway, we've lost this kind of person a lot in the past half century, and we don't care about this one or two more ......"

"Third countries? For example? ”

Because the intelligence agents of the two countries also disguised themselves as the media, they stayed in the same hotel as the staff of France Télévision.

Having worked in intelligence agencies for most of his life, he certainly knows that when the U.S. military conducts military operations that really involve core secrets, it does not share intelligence with allies, and at most only reports it after the fact.

It should be said that his guess was correct to some extent.

In this way, there seems to be only one remaining possibility......

"Moreover, even if the Russians do it, you can listen to their conditions first......"

And it's done without discrimination.

However, this time the culprit is the other party.

It's not the signal that's wrong, it's the person, or the device.

There is also a Spanish media outlet in this hotel, but they are really just media and have nothing to do with intelligence work.

Next, Mr. Director continued to make the same judgment as Ding Gaoheng, and it was logical that it was possible that electromagnetic interference had been cast because of military operations.

"Our intelligence personnel in the Balkans, close to midnight, suddenly exploded violently, the casualties are unknown at present, according to the current summary of information, it is likely that a bomb dropped by a US B2 bomber...... But it seems that the bomber did not return either, most likely being shot down by air defense......"

This further confirms Sanson's conjecture -

After all, it is an intelligence officer, and for France, Britain and the United States also belong to "very suspicious allies", and there are things that can not be said outside, but not known.

But if there are any other possibilities, Ruedler really can't guess.

Originally, everyone was ready to cooperate.

“……”

Moreover, the role that the intelligence officers of the three countries can play is actually not much different from that of the real media, so there is really no need to make a big move......

More than 100 people, all lost.

A slightly anxious voice came from his subordinates on the phone:

You must know that intelligence agencies rely on military satellites for communication, and although the satellites themselves belong to France, the characteristics of the communication frequency band are in line with the NATO system.

No matter how much the U.S. military is, it is impossible to interfere with the communication tools it has to use.

In fact, to Ludler, who knows the Russians better, it doesn't seem like the work of the Federal Security Service.

Knowing that now was not the time to quarrel, Rüdler quickly interjected before Sanson Hongwen:

In order to appease the anger of the people at home, the countries had to make further decisions to suspend their participation in Allied operations.

But at least you can find a way to get the pot out.

The Intelligence Committee was also unable to contact the personnel at the front.

An abnormal situation like tonight is obviously a signal that the US military has a special mission to carry out.

It stands to reason that when this kind of leader is in a meeting, if there is not something that breaks the sky, his subordinates will not call in.

Moreover, the technical staff of the Directorate General of External Security assured that the satellites were in normal working order and that there were no problems with their contacts with intelligence agents in other parts of the world.

"And more importantly, we don't have the chips in our hands."

Originally, there was no consensus within the EU on the Balkans, and a considerable number of people believed that a strategy of maximum pressure should be adopted in order to ensure that interests were maximized.

In the early morning of the next day, 0:20 local time.

In fact, at this point, they are far ahead of the capital and Moscow thousands of kilometers away in terms of the speed of information acquisition.

Even during the Cold War, both sides of the Iron Curtain retained fairly smooth channels for the exchange of information, let alone now.

He simply wanted to know what mission the Americans were carrying out tonight by hiding from their allies and even interfering with radio and television satellites.

Sanson was the first to try to propose.

He continues to be brain dead.

And this also made them miss the last chance to seize the initiative......

(End of chapter)