Struggle in Soviet Russia

Entering December, the temperature in Moscow has shown a weird upward trend. The daily minimum temperature of minus three or four degrees will give people the illusion that winter is about to pass and spring is coming.

Of course, this warming up is only temporary. According to the forecast of the Meteorological Department, this warming weather will last at most three to five days, and there will be a sudden drop in temperature afterwards. It is estimated that the temperature will drop sharply by Tuesday next week. Six or seven degrees.

In the building of the National Security People’s Committee on the boulevard, a frowning Victor walked into his office. He took off his coat and handed it to Nino, who was approaching him, and hung his military hat on the hat rack by the door. , And then walked quickly back to his desk, before sitting on the chair, he reached out and took the black phone on the table.

The black phone is an internal line of the People's Committee of National Security, which is used to communicate with various departments under the Committee. The call center responsible for the connection is also in this building, which is more convenient to use.

Victor’s phone call was made to the Political Security Bureau. He asked about the situation of the handover of Polish prisoners of war. Later, he would report the relevant situation to Comrade Stalin in detail.

At the end of last month, the Polish government-in-exile, with permission from Moscow, soon organized a so-called investigation team to Smolensk, controlled by the Soviet army, to investigate the truth of the Katyn Forest tragedy. This investigation team is not only composed of Poles, it also includes Americans, British and Canadians. They stayed in Smolensk for a week, but no results came out in the end.

Of course, they may have obtained the results, but they have not been announced. The truth of the investigation has been concealed. Even Poles cannot pursue the so-called justice. The fact is that the investigation team has a total of nearly forty people, but only two of them are representatives from Poland, and the number is not even as large as that of the Soviets.

The British and American representatives of the investigation team are not interested in the truth of the Katyn Forest tragedy. What they are really interested in is those Polish prisoners of war who are still being held in prison camps. After consultations with Moscow, there are nearly 100,000 Polish prisoners of war. Prisoners of war began to be transported to the Iranian border area at the end of November.

These prisoners of war will be transported to the Middle East via Iran and Iraq. The British plan to use these Polish prisoners of war as their main force and form an anti-fascist army to strengthen the allied forces.

The NKVD is responsible for the transfer of prisoners of war, but the NKVD led by Victor is also involved in this work. The main task of the latter is to place spies and intelligence teams in these transferred prisoners.

There are too many Polish prisoners of war to be handed over to the British, so it is not that difficult to follow the spy and intelligence team.

The call with the Political Security Bureau lasted for more than ten minutes. When Victor hung up the phone, he realized that Sofia was standing in front of him at some point.

"This is the summary of intelligence sent by the Intelligence Analysis Center today." Seeing Victor put down the phone, Sophia handed over the document in front of him and said, "There is a piece of intelligence from the New York Intelligence Station that is more important. first set."

Victor nodded, reached out and moved the thick stack of documents in front of him, then opened the top document and read it carefully.

The content of the document makes Victor feel a little unbelievable, because the content involved in this intelligence is related to a weapon development project that the Americans are preparing to promote, and this weapon development project is closely related to the "Manhattan Project" that the Americans are currently engaged in. Related.

Since the Foreign Intelligence Agency has strengthened its penetration of American scientific research institutions, people from the North American Department have established several intelligence teams and intelligence stations in the United States. In the several penetration plans they implemented, the penetration of the "Manhattan Project" project is undoubtedly Is the top priority. So far, people from the Foreign Intelligence Service have not only penetrated into the core area of ​​the "Manhattan Project", which is Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but also penetrated into the Los Alamos Laboratory led by Oppenheimer. In addition, Hanford Plutonium material production plants and laboratories in Berkeley, Chicago and other places also have spies from the Foreign Intelligence Agency sneak in.

Nowadays, every step the Americans have made in the research of nuclear projects can be understood by Moscow in two weeks to one month, and a large amount of intelligence input has also provided great convenience for the Soviet Union’s own nuclear weapons research and development projects.

However, today’s intelligence has nothing to do with the American nuclear bomb research and development project. It is mainly based on a new idea of ​​nuclear reactor technology: according to the intelligence, just two weeks ago, the United States’ joint chiefs of staff met. The Army put forward a new proposal, to be precise, a research plan for a new tank.

The U.S. Army chiefs had a whim and suggested that the by-product of the "Manhattan Project", the fission reactor, should be applied to the Army’s tank technology. In other words, it is to build a nuclear-powered tank powered by a fission reactor. . Of course, this "great" plan was not invented by the military itself. Behind the entire project, Chrysler is promoting it.

The New York Intelligence Station of the Foreign Intelligence Service considered this information to be very important, so it immediately gave feedback to Moscow. Similarly, the intelligence analysis department also considered this information to be very valuable, so it was sent to Victor as soon as possible. superior.

But for Victor, when he saw the information in front of him, he only felt that there were countless alpacas whizzing past in his mind. He really couldn't see the great value of this information.

Sometimes, the so-called new technology research and development is really funny, and the brains are so big that people can't figure out whether the brains are opened or the brains are filled with water.

Nuclear-powered tanks? What kind of magical technology came up by a strange genius? Not to mention whether this thing can be successfully developed. Even if it is successfully developed, Victor can't understand what is the difference between such a tank and the nuclear explosion truck in the red alert. To put it bluntly, it is not just a game A walking nuclear bomb?

Victor does not know how others think, but in his opinion, such a research project is simply of no value. If the Americans are determined to develop it successfully, Victor would be more willing to offer them some blessings.

After reading this information roughly, Victor just put it aside. He didn't think it was necessary to report it to Comrade Malinkov.

Leaving this seemingly valuable, but actually useless information aside, Victor was quickly attracted by the information below.

"Is this also sent yesterday?" Picking up the file, Victor asked, looking up at Sophia.

"No, it was delivered this morning," Sophia tilted her head and said, "The Counterintelligence Bureau needs your approval before we can take the next step."

"Comrade Aitingo signed?" Victor opened the document and turned directly to the last page. When he asked, he had already seen Aitingo's signature at the end of the document.

"Yes, it should have been signed," Sophia also saw Eitingo's signature on the document, but she still gave an answer for sure.

Victor nodded, turned the document back to the first page, and read it carefully.

This document relates to an espionage case being investigated by the Counterintelligence Bureau, and because it involves important personnel of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Eitingo will inform Victor of the investigation progress of the case.

When any department expands, all kinds of people will inevitably come in. The same is true for the National Security People’s Committee.

Since Victor took charge of the Foreign Intelligence Agency, this department can be said to be the fastest-expanding department of the entire National People’s Committee for Security and Security. That's not even those outside informants.

The number of people is large, and occasionally one or two traitors or internal traitors appear. It is not unexpected. Fortunately, in addition to focusing on intelligence work, Victor has always attached great importance to anti-espionage work, especially for foreigners. Anti-espionage work within the Intelligence Agency.

This time, the counterintelligence department is looking at a major officer named Oleg Mikhailovich Nismachini. This person belongs to the Eastern European Division of the Foreign Intelligence Service and has been working in Warsaw. The head of the Warsaw Intelligence Station.

The Warsaw Intelligence Station is not a place to wait. It can be said to be the rear of the German front. The strategic channel for the German military to transport materials to Belarus is in this direction. Therefore, the intelligence obtained here is also very important to Moscow.

However, although Nismacini was a spy lurking in the Soviet foreign intelligence service, he was not serving the Germans. According to the investigation by the Counter-Spyware Agency, this person was serving the British intelligence service, and he He has served the British for more than four years. In other words, this person was bought by the British before the war broke out.

Reading Nismacini’s personal files, you can find that this person first served in the NKVD, and was later transferred to the General Staff Intelligence Bureau. Since 1938, he has been transferred to Warsaw and has not been there since. Moved places.

Although the Counterintelligence Bureau has the evidence of this person's contact with British intelligence personnel, there is no evidence to prove that he provided intelligence to the British, let alone what kind of intelligence he provided to the British. Therefore, it must be arrested. To arrest, first obtain Victor's permission.