Struggle in Soviet Russia

The car rushed all the way to the intelligence analysis center. Victor and Eitingo took the document and rushed in almost all the way before entering the auditorium-like work hall. They saw Comrade Serov in a military uniform with a man dressed in military uniform. The casual middle-aged man speaks.

Seeing the two people coming in from the outside, Comrade Serov left the middle-aged man and walked quickly towards them, five or six steps away, and asked with some eagerness: "How is the situation?"

He came here directly after receiving Eitingo's call before. Some things on the phone must be unclear, and Eitingo hadn't got the relevant decoding data at that time, so he was waiting. During this time, don't mention how much he suffered.

How important this information obtained from the "fat fox" is, it is estimated that anyone can understand it, with it, more accurately, with the cooperation of Kabeshova, at least in the Germans. Before the anomaly, a large number of encrypted communications of the German army were completely public in front of the People's Committee of National Security.

In intelligence warfare, intercepting radio communications has never been the most difficult part. The most difficult part is how to read the intercepted encrypted intelligence, and the secret operator who controls Kabeshova, the German intelligence network, is national security. The People's Committee is tantamount to mastering a living dictionary.

Imagine how, during the war, with such an important achievement, how could Comrade Serov stay calm?

Eitingo did not speak, but directly handed the folder in his hand to Serov's hand.

"Go, go upstairs," Comrade Serov took the folder, opened it, glanced at it, and waved his hand directly.

In the entire intelligence analysis hall, there are two hundred small people working. There are many people here, which is not conducive to confidential work.

Comrade Serov took the lead and went directly to the communications confidential room after going upstairs.

The communications confidential room is a special department here. It is a place that receives telegrams from all over the world. People who can be arranged to work here are, without exception, people who have undergone rigorous censorship and have no problems with their political background.

The doors of the confidential room are all safety doors made of heavy steel plates. There are people on duty 24 hours a day. The safety doors can only be opened from the inside. To contact the people in the confidential room, you need to contact by phone. .

Although the people who can work in the confidential room can be trusted, after the three of them entered the door, Comrade Serov drove everyone out, leaving only Fedor, the chief of the confidential section in charge of technical work. ? Captain Smolnikov.

There are three rooms in the entire confidential room. The rooms are connected to each other. In the innermost room, there is a set of captured "riddle" cipher machines.

"Go, take all the wireless communication materials intercepted in the past week," Serov said to Smolnikov, standing in the doorway, "remember to lock the door when you come back."

Smolnikov gave a military salute, turned and walked away quickly.

"To that..." When Smolnikov left, he turned around again and said to Ettingo.

He was half-talking, but both Victor and Eitingo knew what he was trying to say.

"Kabeshova," Eitingo said for him.

"Yes, Kabeshova," Serov nodded, took the subject, and continued, "What is her attitude?"

"We have done a lot of work," Eitingo said. "For now, she agreed to work for us anyway, but she also made a few conditions."

"Talk about it," Serov pointed to the two chairs in the room, motioned Victor and Eitingo to sit down.

"The first is to ask for an amnesty, an amnesty for her and her family," Eitingo said. "In addition, she asked for her brother to be released and the ideological record about her and her family to be erased. She asked for Ordinary citizens receive the same treatment, including arranging jobs, allocating houses, and so on. In the end, they want a life of 50,000 rubles to help her family change their living conditions."

According to the original investigation by the Counterintelligence Bureau, Kabeshova’s family had no political problems, but one of her brothers was sentenced for wounding.

"That's it?" Serov stopped when he heard him, and couldn't help reacting in the same way as Victor.

"That's it," Eitingo nodded and said, "So, I have verbally agreed to her."

"Your decision is correct," Serov said with a satisfied nod. Not only for him, even in Victor's eyes, such conditions are very simple, because according to their previous speculation, this Kabeshova is the most The condition that may be proposed should be to leave the Soviet Union, at least to allow her family to leave the Soviet Union, and this kind of request would be difficult to satisfy her.

Why? Because what the National Security People's Committee needs is not only the information revealed by her mouth, but also the identity of her secret telegrapher, only her long-term latency is valuable.

At this moment, the phone in the room rang, knowing that Smolnikov should be back, Eitingo did not answer the phone, but went straight to open the insurance door.

It was Smolnikov who came in outside the door. He was holding a thick document. It should be the records of German communications intercepted by various special radio communication battalions on the front of the front in the past week.

Serov handed the document in his hand to Smolnikov and said: "According to the four-dimensional data and rotor code above, we modulate our cryptographic machine and translate these intercepted communication records."

Smolnikov took the file, opened it and looked at it, with a shocked expression on his face.

However, he quickly adjusted his emotions, quickly adjusted the terminal board and rotor of the cipher machine, and then directly extracted one from the pile of texts, and tapped it on the cipher machine according to the letter set above.

The text is a letter group consisting of five letters, which is very similar to a garbled code. If you look at it directly, you can't see anything.

However, as Smolnikov's hands quickly tapped on the typing keys of the cipher machine, a piece of paper was spit out from the paper exit.

Including Victor, the three people gathered around and stood behind Smolnikov, staring intently at the pale yellow printing paper that was slowly spitting out amidst the squeaking noise.

The content of this message is not long. There are only twelve groups of letters, totaling 60 letters. Smolnikov finished typing in less than half a minute. Then, he carefully tore off the piece of paper. Ready to read the above content, but was snatched by Serov behind him.

Serov took the piece of paper, stared at the content on the paper, then clenched a fist with one hand, and slammed it **** the table beside him, a flushed face full of excitement.

"How is it?" Aitingo asked, his voice trembling a bit.

Serov didn't speak, and with a wave of his hand, he handed the piece of paper to Victor.

Victor couldn't wait to take the paper over, and took a step closer to Eitingo before looking at the content above.

"The enemy is spreading south of Bogodukhov, and my right-wing threat has increased. I plan to retreat to the line of the Vorskla River. Hopefully."

Obviously, this is a telegram requesting instructions to retreat, and Bogodukhov is just south of Kursk. Last week, the six groups of the Southwest Front Army launched a powerful force against the German Kempf Battle Cluster on this line. During the offensive, at the same time, the main force of the Voronezh Front also launched a large-scale assault operation at the junction of the battle group and the German Fourth Armored Army.

The front of the Kempf battle cluster was swiftly attacked by the Soviet army, and the right wing was threatened by the Soviet heavy army group. Finally, it was forced to evacuate the area south of Bordukhov and began to retreat to the Voorskla River. .

Although this telegram is short, it reveals a lot of information. At least it is certain that the German Kempf battle cluster is not retreating. The purpose of their current retreat is to retreat to the line of the Vorskla River. , And organize a new line of defense there.

Of course, the content of this telegram is not important, what is important is that this telegram has now been deciphered!

"Select all the messages intercepted in the last two days," Serov said directly to Smolnikov without waiting for Victor to speak, "Decipher them as quickly as possible."

After speaking, he turned to Victor and the two again and said: "I'll ask Comrade Stalin for instructions. You will wait here for a while. After you get the deciphered text, go directly to the Kremlin. We want to inform Comrade Stalin of the good news. "

After speaking, he took a step and walked towards the door. After two steps, he stopped again, turned around again, and hugged Victor and Eitingo with a smile, and said, "Comrades, The entire league will be proud of your work, and I will apply for a medal for you."

Victor did not speak, but Etingo smiled and said, "This is a collective contribution."

In this matter, Aitingo contributed the most. In the past period of time, he has spent most of his energy on this matter, and the influence of this matter is really too great. With this one piece of credit, the NKVD can directly overwhelm the NKVD.

Because of this, Eitingo said the same sentence was appropriate, but Victor said it was not appropriate.

"Haha," Serov was obviously happy. He laughed and nodded in agreement, "Yes, it's the collective contribution."

After speaking, he stopped staying, turned around again, and went straight out.

Yes, as Serov said, for this matter, he can apply for a medal, a collective medal, from the People’s Committee of National Defense. Moreover, this medal is 100% fixed. God knows he is getting the news. After that, how happy Comrade Stalin will be.