Struggle in Soviet Russia

The Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff will set up an intelligence and information sharing unit within the Standing Committee of Nuclear Weapons, which will regularly and timely submit the latest information to the Intelligence Division specially established by the Standing Committee. This is what Berwusin requested. As the official in charge of the Standing Committee of Nuclear Weapons, He also wants to make some achievements, even if this project is not taken seriously now.

"Although there are some differences between the work of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff and the work you did in the Internal Intelligence Bureau, there are also many connections between them." Vilov left. When Beria and Victor were left in the office, Beria, the spy chief, said.

He had said this before, and now he repeated it again. Obviously, it was not meaningful.

In fact, Victor understands what he means. Beria has always wanted to merge the General Staff Intelligence Bureau into the intelligence agency of the People’s Committee of the Interior. For this reason, he has called the People’s Committee for National Defense and Comrade Stalin many times. Reported, but never got permission.

To be honest, before the outbreak of the war, the foreign intelligence department of the NKVD was not so much doing intelligence work as it was an assassination agency specializing in dirty work, such as hunting and killing people like Trotsky. Basically, they were presided over by the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the People’s Committee of the Interior.

After Beria took over the leadership of the NKVD, he has been trying to make some changes in this regard, but the establishment of a huge overseas intelligence network is obviously not an overnight task. Therefore, although some achievements have been made in the past two years , But it's not worth boasting. Therefore, Beria hopes that the Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff will be merged to enrich the external intelligence work of the Committee.

In front of Victor, Beria’s two repetitions actually conceal a meaning, that is, the functions of the General Staff’s Intelligence Bureau and the NKVD’s intelligence functions overlap. This potentially deeper meaning is that since The functions overlap, why not merge them.

Faced with such a statement, what can Victor do? He is not a decision maker. Can the General Staff and Intelligence Bureau be merged into the NKVD? Can he decide? Therefore, keeping silent is the only thing he can do.

"Now, you go to preside over the work of the General Staff Intelligence Bureau, I have a suggestion," Beria continued.

Victor leaned forward slightly, making a look of listening.

"The Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff should strengthen cooperation with the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the Committee," Beria said. "There should be a kind of intelligence sharing between the two departments... well... a linkage mechanism. In this case, I would like to The overall situation of the work should be beneficial. Of course, I have not actually dealt with specific issues in intelligence work, and I lack experience in this area. Therefore, you and Comrade Feijing need to do more on the details. comminicate."

Speaking of this, he paused, and then smiled again: "You may not be familiar with Feijing. He has a more serious character and he is not stern, but he is a good person. If I have time in the past two days, I will introduce you to him. Hehe, they are all comrades doing intelligence work, and they may become colleagues in the future. It is always good to have more contact."

"What you said is," Victor nodded and smiled. "Actually, I always think that mutual communication and information sharing between intelligence agencies is very important. There is a problem of information fragmentation in intelligence information, which means that it is very seemingly useless. The scattered pieces of information, once gathered together, may point to a sensitive and important piece of information. According to this theory, some pieces of information that are useless to the General Staff’s Intelligence Bureau are likely to be used by the intelligence agencies of the People’s Committee of the Interior. Very important. In view of this, the cooperation between the two departments is also very necessary. I even hope that a comprehensive intelligence analysis center can be set up between the General Staff Intelligence Bureau and the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the People’s Committee of the Interior, dedicated to analysis and processing. Fragmented intelligence obtained by the two departments."

"Oh?!" Beria sat upright, leaning against the back of the sofa chair. He showed an expression of interest and applauded, "Comprehensive intelligence analysis center? This is a very novel idea with specific details. Implementation plan?"

"It's just a preliminary idea," Victor said, shaking his head. "I haven't considered it in depth. In fact, when I was presiding over the internal intelligence work of the Committee, I was aware of some shortcomings in our intelligence work, such as various intelligence. There is a lack of communication and information sharing between departments. Therefore, I had an idea at that time, that is, to set up an intelligence analysis center with the authority to obtain information on top of each intelligence department, and to separate intelligence acquisition and intelligence analysis. At the same time, in a broader scope, strengthen the ability of intelligence analysis."

Beria's eyes were staring at Victor's body with an inexplicable brilliance. Victor bet that this guy is definitely not thinking about how the intelligence analysis center is beneficial to the intelligence work. If nothing else, he thinks. How should this intelligence analysis center be brought into the leadership of the People's Committee of the Interior and be brought under his control?

In fact, this idea was not invented by Victor himself, but in the history of his previous life, the intelligence work of various countries began to change in this direction after World War II. For example, the joint conference system of the US intelligence agencies, and even the joint chiefs of staff system in the United States, etc., the system itself means this.

Seeing Beria staring at him all the time, as if waiting for him to continue speaking, Victor could only elaborate this idea again. In fact, this type of intelligence analysis structure was used by Victor himself in the past, and that was the intelligence analysis team he formed when he was in charge of intelligence work in the west. The system is the same, but the intelligence analysis center is much larger than his intelligence analysis team.

"Very good, very good, Comrade Victor Viktorovich, this is a very constructive idea." When Victor explained some of the detailed thoughts, Beria nodded and applauded, "Victor, I I ask you to form a report on this idea as soon as possible in the recent period and hand it to me directly."

"Yes!" Victor hurriedly responded.

"The Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff is just your temporary work place," Beria continued. "You also know that this time you are transferred, it was Comrade Shaboshnikov who personally made a request to Comrade Stalin. No one It can be changed. However, you shouldn't stay there for too long. When I have a chance, I will find a way to transfer you back."

"Yes, Comrade Lavrenji," Victor nodded.

It was almost noon when he came out of Beria's office. At this time, the snow that began to fall in the early morning hours had also stopped.

Considering the time, Victor gave up the idea of ​​going to the General Staff and went directly to the residence opposite the square.

In the bedroom on the second floor of the small building, the messy big bed in the morning has been cleaned up, quilts and everything have been put into the cabinet, and the women’s pajamas worn by Olica last night have been washed and hung on it. Entrance to the bathroom.

Victor was a little embarrassed. Although he has dedicated attendants here, those attendants only take care of his daily life, and will not clean up his bedroom. Of course, he will not wash his pajamas for his mistress. No need to ask, they should be in the morning. It was Safina who came, and she did all these things.

However, this shame did not stay in his heart for too long, let alone make him feel ashamed. He even thought about finding an opportunity to introduce the three people around him to know each other, maybe one day in the future, he could be a big hit. Sleeping together is also uncertain.

It must be admitted that the reborn Victor is not the same as any Bolshevik party member in this era. In today’s Soviet Union, no matter how much political instability has gone through, no matter how serious the factional struggle within the party is, he is realistic. , People with basic party spirit still account for the majority. There may be people who are greedy, or there may be speculation, there may be people who are not worthy and capable, and there are even quite a few corrupt elements, but there is a passion, and people who are loyal to the Bolshevik Party and the Union still occupy the overwhelming majority.

As for Victor, he is capable and hardworking. He can't do corruption and bribery. Greed is not a big deal. But one thing is terrible. He has no so-called loyalty to the Bolshevik Party or the Alliance. Had it not been for the Germans to be extremely ruthless with his background in the NKVD, he would have even done things like surrendering to the enemy on the battlefield.

Therefore, he will work hard, but he will not pay too much attention to the issue of his own life style. In addition, he has no principle to speak from the factional standpoint. The reason why he chooses to maintain a respectful attitude towards Beria is not Because he agrees with what Beria's proposition, but because the spy chief has risen rapidly in recent years and has gained the trust of Comrade Stalin more and more, that's all.

However, Victor’s difficulty was that the memory of his previous life told him that Beria did not get a good end. He was cleaned up immediately after the death of Comrade Stalin, and none of his cronies got a good end.

Therefore, he now has only two choices: either find a more secure backer, so that one day in the future, he can get a chance to rebel, or he will follow Beria with all his heart, and one day in the future, follow this The big spy chief threw his opponents into jail.

There is no doubt that these two choices are full of risks, but if you think about it carefully, you can understand that Victor’s rebirth was originally a fact full of risks. This era, this country, is for anyone. , Are not safe.