Struggle in Soviet Russia

Victor just put down the hand of the military salute, heard the words, hurriedly saluted again, and said loudly: "Yes, Comrade Stalin, this is Victor Viktorovich."

"I remember you, yes, I remember you," Comrade Stalin smiled. He pointed to Victor and said, "Lav Lianji lacks talent in employing people. However, your presence makes me feel bad about his work. There has been a slight improvement."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Mikoyan next to him. The latter smiled and nodded, jokingly saying: "If you were heard by Comrade Lavrenji, he might be a little emotional, haha."

Even with Victor's political consciousness, he could hear that Mikoyan's seemingly unkind joke was ridiculing Beria's inability to accept criticism, even Comrade Stalin's criticism.

For Victor, this person at the level of the gods is fighting, and he is not qualified to participate in anyway. Therefore, keeping silent is the best way to deal with it.

Comrade Stalin didn’t seem to take Mikoyan’s words to heart. The smile on his face remained undiminished. He continued to look at Victor and said: “The previous intelligence work of the NKVD was not satisfactory. The performance of the bureau has been better. Comrade Victor, now you are mainly in charge of the intelligence work of the NKVD. I want to hear what you think."

Victor was considering this issue before, but he has no clue for the time being, but in front of Comrade Stalin, he certainly can't say that. Only people with no political experience will tell the truth in front of the leader.

"That's it, Comrade Stalin." With his brain running fast, Victor really thought of some words to deal with in just a few seconds. He coughed and said, "Combined with the fact that I was working in the West. I plan to implement a new model combining grassroots intelligence stations and expanding the informant system."

"Oh?" Comrade Stalin seemed to be very interested in this so-called "new model". He turned his head and glanced at Mikoyan.

"Talk about your thoughts carefully," Comrade Stalin made a gesture when Mikoyan got down the steps, inviting Victor to walk.

The new model that Victor said is not very new. Even in the past, in the intelligence system of the NKVD, there was an informant system. The so-called informant is the person who provides clues. But before that, the intelligence department of the NKVD was very strict in censoring informants, especially in the part of political censorship. Those with bad backgrounds and positions are unlikely to become informants of the NKVD. In other words, the informant was actually confirmed as a full member of the NKVD.

According to Victor's plan, the intelligence department will expand the development of informants. At the same time, the informant will no longer be subject to a strict review system, and the informant will no longer be regarded as a full member of the committee. These informants can be ordinary soldiers, ordinary people, or even prisoners, people with problems of background, etc. In short, the committee will devolve the power to develop informants to grass-roots intelligence stations, and those of grass-roots intelligence stations. Any intelligence personnel can develop certain informants according to their own needs.

Victor believes that the focus of intelligence work is to collect intelligence, and the main direction of the intelligence agency's work should be to collect information and collect important information by unscrupulous means, rather than maintaining the purity and political correctness of the intelligence team. The intelligence department must figure out the concept of inner and outer. For inner members, that is, full members, their position and loyalty must be strictly guaranteed, but for those outer members, their identity and position are not the main ones. Maybe those criminals, Those who have problems will have more opportunities to access important and critical information.

Based on this, Victor suggested to re-adjust the organizational structure of the grassroots intelligence station. A grassroots intelligence station can have two to three supervisors. Each supervisor is responsible for leading three to five formal intelligence personnel. Those formal intelligence personnel are on the development line. There is no limit on the number of people. They can contact one or two informants, or they can contact hundreds of informants.

In order to ensure the security of the intelligence station, the intelligence personnel should be isolated from each other. The supervisor and each intelligence personnel should adopt a single-line communication method, and the person in charge of the grass-roots intelligence station must strictly control each supervisor. If a problem is detected with a supervisor, measures must be taken immediately. To this end, each grass-roots intelligence station should also be assigned three to five armed personnel to deal with unexpected situations at any time.

Victor’s goal is to build a grassroots intelligence network that is comprehensive in terms of points and lines and covers as wide a range as possible through such a model, taking the grassroots intelligence station as the point, the supervisor as the line, and a large number of informants as the face. However, after such a grass-roots intelligence network is completely rolled out, the internal intelligence department of the NKVD will be able to spread its vision within the scope of the entire alliance.

After listening to his brief introduction of some ideas, Comrade Stalin patiently asked a few questions. Victor relied on his experience in intelligence work and his quickness to answer well. All of these made Comrade Stalin very satisfied.

Victor did not know that in the history of his previous life, the NKVD during the war also adopted this model, and in just one year from 1942 to 1943, the NKVD developed a number of Millions of informants. Subsequently, the National Security Committee, which was independent from the NKVD, took over this huge network of informants, thus realizing the monitoring of the entire alliance without any blind spots.

In the history of the previous life, the person who led this work was the young and promising Comrade Abakumov.

"This plan sounds feasible, Comrade Viktor Viktorovich," Comrade Stalin said with a serious face under the steps in front of the building. "I hope it can bring some changes to the intelligence work of the NKVD. "

The tone paused, and he continued: "I will give you two days to form a specific report on this plan. Comrade Lavrenji has gone to Leningrad. You can give me this report directly. See it in a moment. As for the funding issue you mentioned, although our current conditions are very difficult, in view of the importance of intelligence work, I will negotiate with the comrades of the National Defense People’s Committee to ensure your needs as much as possible. "

"Yes, Comrade Stalin," Victor hurriedly stood up straight and made a military salute.

Comrade Stalin nodded, and walked forward. Not far from the front was his car. Poskrebshev was already waiting by the car.

Seeing Comrade Stalin got in the car, the car started to move, and gradually moved away, Victor let out a long breath. To be honest, despite the good tone and expression of Comrade Stalin, he was very easy-going, at least not so serious, psychologically, Victor still felt a lot of pressure.

Victor never believed in such things as personal aura. In his opinion, the reason why Comrade Stalin put such pressure on him was because he knew how heavy the authority of the other party was. To put it in place, Comrade Stalin wanted him to If you die, you only need to say a word, no, you don't even have to say a word.

When Victor got in the car, he was the only one left in front of the building. Varenka started the car and drove slowly out of the Kremlin, but in four or five minutes, he arrived in front of the building on Lubyanka Square.

Victor got out of the car, shook his military coat, and then walked towards the entrance of the building. Because he was thinking about the plan, he didn't pay much attention to those who greeted him along the way.

In order to deal with the question raised by Comrade Stalin, he wanted to sell a new plan to expand the informant group, and this plan was approved by Comrade Stalin, and he was required to give a concrete and feasible plan within three days. , Hand in directly.

A draft is completely different from a specific and feasible plan. The draft only needs to say what it is going to do and what effects it will achieve. However, when it comes to a specific plan, it must be more detailed and specific. When it comes to feasibility issues, more details must be involved, and even a series of personnel issues must be determined.

To be honest, to come up with such a plan within three days, it is not enough to rely solely on Victor himself. He needs to mobilize the cadres of the entire internal intelligence department to do this together, and specific issues must be handed over to specific departments to finalize .

Since the entire internal intelligence service is to be mobilized for this work, one thing that is certain is that even if Comrade Beria is in Leningrad and Mrs. Chero is in Transcaucasus, they will certainly learn about this as soon as possible. Yes.

Yes, Comrade Stalin did say that this plan must be handed over to him directly, but Victor would not really do it stupidly, but to Beria and his immediate leader Serov. Don't say hello. This is the performance of the first political brother, and it is also a way of losing his future. Naturally, Victor will not make such a low-level mistake.

Therefore, when facing this kind of problem, you must not lose your head immediately and lose your direct leadership. Instead, you must calm down and still follow the usual work process and report the matter to Serov first. , Think of a way to contact Beria far away in Leningrad, and breathe in with him. There are many excuses, and they are all ready-made. For example, I don’t know if there are loopholes in such a big scheme for the first time, so I want to ask the leader to check it out.

After the two leaders have notified them, we will finally consider Comrade Stalin's question. If nothing else, neither Beria nor Serov will prevent him from reporting the plan to Comrade Stalin personally. After all, they are not political brothers. NS.