Struggle in Soviet Russia

Spy is not a new profession. On the contrary, it has existed for a long time in the process of human history. Therefore, people who can use spies cannot be limited to alliances. They can be limited to the National Security People’s Committee. If you place spies in other countries, other countries can naturally also place spies in the alliance.

Therefore, intelligence work always contains two major aspects, one is intelligence acquisition and the other is anti-espionage. To put it bluntly, while obtaining information from others, it is necessary to prevent others from obtaining information from yourself.

Because it was a weekend, many people took weekend vacations from downtown Moscow to the countryside. There was also a car accident on the Garden Ring Road, which caused road congestion. Therefore, it was already morning when Victor arrived at the committee department. It's eleven o'clock.

After returning to the committee department, Victor went directly to Eitingo's office. He had reason to believe that the head of the counterintelligence department must be a headache now.

The stolen documents of ШЭ10997 and ШЭ10998 are not only related to the problem of rocket engine technology. If only some of the parameters of this technology were stolen, Victor would not take it so seriously, because as far as he knows, these two The parameters involved in the file are all obtained from Germans.

So, where are the hidden dangers of file leakage? The bottom line is that if these two documents fall into the hands of the Germans, and after analysis by their rocket experts, they can immediately draw a conclusion that their technical intelligence has been leaked, and this will be inserted into the foreign intelligence agency. The intelligence agency in Germany poses a huge risk.

When Victor walked into the office, Eitingo was on the phone. He saw Victor coming in, raised his hand to say hello, pointed to the position of the sofa, and then continued to talk to the person on the phone.

Victor was not welcome, and walked to the sofa in the center of the office and sat down. Seeing a magazine on the table, he reached for it and flipped through it casually.

This is a German-language magazine called "DieWehrmacht", also known as "Wehrmacht". The cover is a German Wehrmacht soldier squatting in a paratrooper pit. Victor has also read magazines like this.

As a department specializing in intelligence work, Victor has a large number of German magazines and newspapers. Although these magazines and newspapers are publicly issued, it is impossible to involve any confidential content. However, even such news may sometimes be obtained from Some specific information leaked from some sides.

However, Victor didn't understand German, so he couldn't understand this kind of German magazine. After only turning two pages, he threw the magazine back on the coffee table.

Eitingo quickly hung up the phone. He took a letterhead and walked to Victor. He sat down on a sofa next to him, rubbing his forehead, and said, "Our people are in Kirovge. Le discovered Skilyak's whereabouts, but that guy was obviously cooperating, and the Sverdlov team couldn't catch him the first time."

After speaking, he handed the letterhead to Victor and said: "In addition, just this morning, the radio monitoring station in Nevyansk intercepted a radio message. This is the deciphered content."

Victor took the letterhead, looked at it, and found that it was a passage: "The new code will be activated immediately. The new code includes: the surname of the'Fox Hunt’ training camp instructor, the surname of Miss No. 2 in Lanes Farm, and the surname of the wolfhound. First name, your wife's first name, and besides, do you remember Uncle Tok's last name? If you remember, please let me know."

Seeing the content on the letterhead, Victor bit his lip. Then, he bent the index finger of his right hand, flicked it on the letterhead, and said, "Eitingo, it looks like you have something to do."

He raised his head and glanced at Eitingo next to him. He went on to say: "If nothing else, behind this code, there should be a very large German intelligence organization, and their level is very high."

After speaking, he got up directly from the sofa, walked to Eitingo’s desk, reached out to hold the green telephone which represents the internal circuit, and while shaking the handle, he said: “According to the information we have obtained, the Germans have been working recently. Enable the new communication encryption key..."

At this point, the call was just connected, and he said into the receiver: "Notify Sophia to come to my Comrade Etingo's office, and I will wait for her here."

Immediately, he hung up the phone, walked back to the sofa and sat down, and continued: "You know, our intelligence analysis center has been trying to decipher the encryption method of German communication in the past few months. In the past, we have always It is believed that the German'riddle' cipher machine generates the corresponding code randomly, but the results of the research show that this idea is wrong."

"Oh?" Ai Tingo looked curious. He is an old intelligence officer, and naturally knows how important the work of cracking the cryptographic machine is.

"Our cryptographic experts believe that the'riddle' cryptographic machine should use four-dimensional data plus a key to determine the corresponding code pattern," Victor held up the letter paper, shook it, and said, "If nothing happens, This telegram contains four-dimensional data, and the last uncle'Tok''s last name represents the corresponding key."

"So..." Ai Tingo said puzzledly.

"So, this message is very important," Victor said. "This is the first relevant message we have intercepted so far."

The tone paused, and he said again: "It can be seen that there is a secret informant who can interpret this code lurking in the Urals, and similar informants were not captured when we won the battle of Stalingrad. Because the two informants there boarded the retreating plane before the Germans surrendered."

"report!"

As he was talking about this, Sophia's voice came from the door.

Victor glanced at the door and said, "Come in."

"Send this to the Intelligence Analysis Center," when Sophia came closer, he handed over the letterhead and said, "Let our codebreakers see what they mean."

The letterhead asked the names or surnames of four people. Of course, this cannot really represent the names of these people. If nothing else, this should be a password, especially the first four, which should represent the four virtues. Letter.

"Yes!" Sophia responded, turned and walked towards the door.

"So, Victor, what do you mean?" Eitingo asked when Sofia had left the house.

"We need this whistleblower," Victor said, "I mean, we need him to work for us, and we must let him work for us without disturbing Berlin."

Aitingo frowned, all engaged in intelligence work, so he could understand what Victor meant.

As Victor said before, since there is a secret informant lurking in the Ural region, it means that there is a high-level German intelligence organization in the region.

As the head of the counterintelligence department, Eitingo must dig out this intelligence organization. This is his job and his responsibility.

But Victor also said that this secret informant is very important, and he has very critical information in his hands. Therefore, the intelligence department of the National Security People's Committee needs to let this secret informant serve him.

At the same time, in order not to disturb Berlin and prevent the Germans from changing the encryption method of communication, the counterintelligence department cannot directly destroy this organization, and all actions must be carried out under the condition of guaranteeing top secret.

There is no doubt that this will increase the difficulty of the counterintelligence department to the greatest extent. After all, they have no knowledge of this intelligence organization. They only know a Skilyak who is absconding, and the other is the captured wireless telegram. .

"Victor, it seems a bit difficult," Eitingo said after a long silence. "And, I'm worried that Skilyak will take the opportunity to escape."

"Compared to Skilyak and the two documents he stole, this whistleblower is of higher value to us," Victor said without hesitation.

Eitingo was silent. He was in charge of counterintelligence work, not intelligence work. If something went wrong, Skilyak escaped, related documents leaked, and caused damage to intelligence agencies. In order to lose, Comrade Stalin would not go to Victor's trouble, but to find his trouble.

But for Victor, he really didn’t mean to pit Eitingo. To be honest, if the National Security People’s Committee can really control this hidden informant, the benefits it can bring to intelligence agencies will be tempting. Yes, because it means that the Soviet intelligence service will reach a whole new level in radio communication deciphering.

For this goal, any risk is worth taking, even if some German intelligence personnel are sacrificed for this.

"Let's do it, Eitingo," Victor clearly recognized his concerns. "On this matter, we can submit a report to the People’s Committee for National Defense to clarify the whole matter, so that even in the future If something goes wrong, you don’t have to take responsibility alone."

This is a multiple choice question. You must know that once this report is formed and submitted, then there will be problems in the future. Of course, it will be necessary for Victor and Eitingo to share it, but if there is really something to be gained, then the gain The honor will also be shared by the two.

Risks are shared, and benefits must naturally be shared. This is a matter of course.

"Okay," Aitingo didn't hesitate too much. He nodded and said directly, "I'll draft the report."

"I immediately asked the people from the intelligence working group to contact the Berlin Intelligence Station," Victor also stood up and said, "The Berlin Intelligence Station needs to make some adjustments to avoid losses as much as possible."