Struggle in Soviet Russia

"Guchenko is a secret telegrapher sent by the People’s Committee of Foreign Affairs to Ottawa four months ago," Anna said. Encrypted messages in order to establish contact between Moscow and Ottawa. Before going to Ottawa, he was in charge of secret telegraphers in London for a period of time."

At this point, Anna stopped, and a pair of pale blue eyes turned to Victor.

Victor's eyes twitched, and even though Anna didn't say something more specific, he still understood the implications.

Since the various divisions of the Foreign Intelligence Service are distributed all over the world, they naturally don't have many ways to transmit information to Moscow. The most common one is through the Soviet embassies, consulates or offices in various countries.

The intelligence stations stationed around the world, every time they obtain valuable information, in order to ensure the maximum confidentiality, they often choose to transmit it to the organizations stationed in the alliance, and then these organizations stationed in various places, Pass to Moscow.

If Guchenko is only a staff member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs embassy in Ottawa, even a secret telegrapher, its value will not be very high. Even if it is instigated by the Canadian side, there is no way to provide the other party with too much valuable intelligence information. .

But the problem is that this person has previous experience in London, so the problem is very complicated, because the London Intelligence Station is very important to the Foreign Intelligence Agency. The Foreign Intelligence Agency obtained nuclear weapons research and development technology from the British. A lot of the information is passed through the embassy in London. In other words, this Guchenko has at least some relevant information in his hands.

At the same time, it is precisely because of the special status of this Guchenko that after he is transferred to Ottawa, the Foreign Intelligence Agency will implement certain monitoring on him.

"Go on," Victor said, sitting upright, putting his hands on the desk.

"Previously, after we noticed the close relationship between Guchenko and Elanis, we started investigating the identity of Elanis," Anna continued, "but it wasn't until three days ago that this woman and Saint Laurent were found. At that time, we submitted an inquiry letter to the Special Office, asking the Special Office to provide information about Guchenko’s family members."

At this point, Anna stopped again.

Victor frowned and turned his head, and gave her a dissatisfied look.

"This morning, we got a reply letter," Anna lowered her eyelids and said, "According to the reply letter provided by the Special Office, we learned that Guchenko’s wife and son had already flown to Almaty a week ago. Then I went to China via Almaty."

"hiss……"

Victor took a deep breath. He glared at Anna, then turned to his side, stretched out his hand to open the drawer on the right side of the desk, rummaged through it, and found a book with red soft leather, similar to a quadruple invoice. small notebook.

Seeing Victor take out this special little book, Nino hurried over and was about to reach out to get a pen in the pen holder, but Anna was one step ahead. The woman took the pen, took off the cap, and sent it to Victor in both hands. before.

Victor just opened the soft skin of the little book at this time, he took the pen from Anna's hand along the way, and wrote directly on the first page of the little book.

It is not accurate to say that it is the first page, because the tear marks on the side of the small book can be seen, this small book is just like the invoice book, one page is torn after one page is written.

This kind of small book is standard. In the past, it was used by the NKVD. With the National Security NKVD and the NKVD, this stuff went to the NKVD. Its function is to issue a killing order under certain circumstances. The National Security People’s Committee’s Counterintelligence Bureau, the Ideological Security Bureau, the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, and the Special Division can use this thing to kill people. Follow relevant judicial procedures.

Of course, this so-called "not going through the relevant judicial procedures" does not mean that there is no need to go through the procedures. It means that the relevant procedures can be supplemented, that is, the person will be killed first, and then the deceased will be charged.

In most cases, this item is issued to hunt down defectors. Because time is urgent and it is too late to go through the procedures, Victor can first issue a copy of this item and arrange for someone to be sent to the supervisory committee or the procuratorial agency. While arranging people to perform tasks.

For example, this time, this Guchenko is not an agent of the People's Committee of National Security. Although he has business ties with the People's Committee of National Security, he is an employee of the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs.

At the same time, considering that although Guchenko is not a national cadre, he is a national civil servant engaged in a special occupation. Therefore, this "hunting order" will not be sent to the procuratorial organ, but will be sent to the supervisory committee.

After the Supervisory Committee gets this thing, it will immediately set up a temporary organization similar to the task force, and issue an order to the People’s Committee of the Interior to find out this Guchenko’s network. Then, it will identify his relatives, friends, family and relatives. Even colleagues at the upper and lower levels are temporarily controlled.

At the same time, the Supervisory Committee will communicate with the National Security People’s Committee as soon as possible to understand the relevant case, that is, to figure out why the National Security People’s Committee will issue such a document, and whether it is necessary to issue it. .

Let’s take Guchenko as an example. If the Supervisory Committee thinks that this “kill order” is a big deal after communicating with Victor, then they will hold Victor accountable. Although it will not cause Victor to lose his position, it will also allow him to take good care of him. Disgusting. But if the Supervisory Committee believes that this "kill order" is necessary, then it will naturally follow the normal procedures.

In the era of Victor’s previous life, whether it was on the Internet or in film and television dramas, it was preached how powerful the National Security Committee was. It seemed that everyone could be killed or killed at will, but in fact it was not the case. Although the power of the Central Supervisory Committee has been weakened many times, its role in monitoring the National Security People's Committee and the People's Committee of the Interior has always existed. The difference is only the strength of the supervision.

In fact, in the decades of Soviet history, the struggle for power and power limitation between the Central Supervisory Commission and the national security agencies seems to have never ceased. What is interesting is that if you look at the history of the defection of Soviet agents, It is easy to find a rule, that is, every time the Central Supervisory Committee has the upper hand, or the People's Committee of the Interior and the People's Committee of National Security are weakened, it is the period when agents defect most frequently.

In Victor’s previous life, the NKVD was abolished again in the early days after World War II and merged into the NKVD. At the same time, Kuznetsov was responsible for overseeing the national security work and fought Beria vigorously. During the same period, Soviet agents frequently defected, and Guchenko was one of them. His defection exposed the Soviet Union's theft of information on British and American nuclear weapons research and development, which not only caused severe damage to foreign intelligence agencies, but also gave the British and the United States a pretext for attacking the Soviet Union.

From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Andropov, who was promoted to a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, put forward the idea of ​​returning to collective leadership and strengthening the socialist legal system in order to "take one step forward," and strengthened restrictions on the KGB. . During this period, there was another wave of defections, such as Viktor Ivanovich Sheimov, Oleg Gortyevsky and others, who successfully defected during this period.

Of course, this may not be regarded as a rule, it may be just a random incident that happened under a certain background, but the real reason...who knows?

Because his previous life did not pay much attention to the affairs of the Soviet Union, Victor did not know how famous Guchenko was in the history of his previous life. Therefore, he was not very concerned about this potentially risky defecting event. Heart.

According to Anna’s report, Guchenko does have the possibility of absconding and mutiny. Of course, in his capacity, if he does mutiny, it will have a great impact on the Foreign Intelligence Agency, but the problem is that there is only this kind of risk now. But the risk has not yet become a reality. If the Canadian intelligence station can respond quickly, the chances of Guchenko being taken down are very high.

In addition, Guchenko is not a member of the People’s Committee of National Security. He belongs to the People’s Committee of Foreign Affairs. If this guy defected, it would certainly affect the work of the Foreign Intelligence Service, but it was the People’s Committee of Foreign Affairs who needed to bear the responsibility. Even if it is necessary for the National Security People’s Committee to bear certain responsibilities, what really needs to be done is the special part that Comrade Feijing is responsible for.

Now, what really made Victor a bit of a headache was the signs of infighting displayed by his subordinates.

Listen to what Anna said before. She said that the request letter about Guqinke was forwarded to the special department "three days ago", and the reply letter from the special department was sent "this morning". In other words, Anna emphasized that it was particularly delayed for two days in this matter.

Although Victor is not an old political fritters, he is not a junior in politics. He can still detect the calculations of his subordinates.

To put it bluntly, the group of people under his leadership knew that there were contradictions between him and Feijing and Eitingo. If you put it in the past, when Serov was the chairman of the National Security People’s Committee, people like Anna might not dare to instigate anything, or at least not dare to be too obvious in departmental fighting.

But now it’s different. Serov is gone. Their immediate boss has become the chairman of the committee and is in power. Therefore, the morale of these guys under Victor has risen. Shaking face, they are about to fight first.