Soviet Union 1991

As Victor said, when they arrived at the police station, senior Interpol personnel were already waiting for them at the gate, so Bourne was waiting for the arrival of his subordinate Winterson with an embarrassed look on his face. Almost as soon as Victor was dragged out of the car, Interpol's Byrne took out a sealed document from the Secretariat and threw it into Winterson's chest, speaking in a low voice and suppressing his emotions as much as possible. Said, "Let him go."

"Why? We finally caught him." Winterson frowned and took a look at the document. It was indeed an official document signed by Interpol, and there was no falsehood in it.

"Why?" Bourne suddenly raised his voice. He glanced at Victor behind him, who was looking at him with a half-smiling expression. He said to Winterson, who was unaware of the current situation, "I'll do it. Tell you why, just minutes after you caught him. Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze called Interpol directly, and a few minutes later even Soviet Prime Minister Pavlov called the Secretary-General directly to say that we had arrested the wrong person. Do you think this would alarm the Soviet Foreign Minister and the Soviet Prime Minister. , what kind of person is he?”

"Don't forget that Interpol has no right to intervene in the muddy waters between politics and military affairs. We have no right to participate in the political privacy between any executive committee members. Do you understand Winterson? Otherwise, why do you think this top job The signed documents from the executive agency will be dropped within minutes of your capture."

"But he is obviously what we want..." Winterson tried to argue in front of the superior, but was rudely interrupted by the latter.

"There is no but, it's all just a misunderstanding." Boss Bourne directly unlocked Victor's handcuffs and replied apologetically, "I'm sorry for the unreasonable things my subordinates did to you. I hope Mr. Victor can forgive us for our mistakes.”

"Of course I won't care, and I hope he won't care at the same time." Victor took his briefcase and after making sure that the documents inside were not stolen, he left the police station with the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia who was present.

Before leaving, Victor waved goodbye to the smiling Byrne and the sulky Winterson, "Goodbye, oh no, I don't want a friendly Soviet citizen like me to be treated as an Interpol agent again." A murderer on the most wanted list.”

After Victor left, an aggrieved Winterson turned around and asked his boss Bourne, "He is a murderer! Why let him go? Is our statistical list fake?"

"It's not up to you to decide whether he is the murderer or not, Winterson." Looking at this young and promising subordinate, Bourne lit a cigarette and began to educate him slowly, "Do you really think that some Wouldn't there be some national leaders behind the guy who joined Interpol? From the Soviet Union's series of actions, we can see that Victor's profound background is beyond our imagination. Even the opposition leaders in Sierra Leone have It’s Victor’s friend.”

"Okay, let's end this matter here. I don't want to get involved anymore." Bourne threw away the cigarette butt and muttered dissatisfiedly, "I will retire in a few years, and I don't want to get involved in such a bad situation now." Go inside."

Victor, who was taken away by the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia, got his things back. Fortunately, he had not missed the last flight to Tehran. He would cross the Iranian border to Erbil.

"This incident is a warning from the CIA to you, Comrade Victor. Remember to protect your identity in other countries in the future. After all, the party will not always be able to fish you out in time." Soviet Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Nilokov stared forward and spoke to Victor intently.

"The CIA also sent their agents to Erbil, but I didn't expect them to declare war on us so quickly. But the PKK, which owed me a favor before, is now the time to repay it." Byrne He said to the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia beside him, "So I want to know who the agent sent by the CIA is?"

"I heard it's a guy named Simien. You've been in this business for so long, have you ever heard of him?"

Hearing Simien's name, Victor narrowed his eyes. Old hatred and new hatred surged into his heart at the same time. He lowered his head and took out a photo from his briefcase, which showed him shaking hands and chatting with the Minister of Defense. of Simeon.

"At a previous arms defense exhibition in Europe, Simien once said that a low-level arms dealer like me didn't deserve to talk to him at all. I wrote this sentence down and hope to return it to him one day."

Nilokov nodded and replied in a bureaucratic tone, "It seems that you are already at odds with each other. I hope you can handle this matter well and not disrupt the high-level deployment in Iraq. , if it doesn’t work, the GRU and the KGB will step in to assist you.”

Nilokov, who graduated from Moscow State University, has always looked down on these underground workers who took sideways paths. He believed that these people were just investors chasing capital and could not be called communist fighters at all.

Victor shook his head, "This is my war, and there is no need for intelligence agents to intervene. But the CIA letting this guy go to Iraq to sell arms was a mistake in itself. How could they have thought of letting a person who knows so many secrets Showing up openly and openly in the turbulent Iraq.”

"What do you mean?" Nilokov turned his head and asked in surprise.

"If President Mario or the American people knew that the CIA's top brass were selling weapons to their country's enemies, what would they think? It wouldn't be as simple as resigning. The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security would all be involved in the investigation, and they all wanted to punish the CIA to death. Because of the Ames spy case, the CIA's trust in the top brass had already fallen to the bottom. If there was another black arms sale incident that affected the credibility and image of the U.S. government, I guess the CIA would only be reorganized."

This was indeed a very vicious plan. While the CIA was still cheering for its unexpected income, they didn't know that their agent's private revenge betrayed everyone. Once Simien leaked the matter, all the CIA's top brass would be in trouble. Nilokov, who was beside him, was a little uneasy. He didn't expect that a small misunderstanding would lead to such a huge contest. (To be continued.)8

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