Struggle in Soviet Russia

On Lenin Square in Moscow, Victor’s car slowly stopped in front of the main entrance of a milky-white three-story building. This building looked a little special. Above the tall main entrance were three-faced portraits of Marx, Engels, and Comrade Lenin. On both sides of the main entrance, there are two soldiers in uniforms in charge of guards.

The special significance of this building is that although it is in Moscow, it is not a department of the Soviet Union. Of course, the main work of the department working in this building still needs to be guided by the Bolshevik Party Central Committee.

Yes, the department in this building is called the "Executive Committee of the Communist International", and its leadership is the Communist International, which is the Third International.

In fact, since the outbreak of the war, for nearly a year, the actual operation of the Communist International has come to a halt under the influence of the Anti-Fascist War. Although its departments are still there, they no longer have any meaning.

In Moscow, many people are proposing to dissolve the "Communist International". The propaganda to the outside world is to give more autonomy to the Communists and Workers' Parties in various countries to develop the anti-fascist movement, but in the final analysis, it is actually to avoid irritation. After all, the current situation is different for Britain and the United States and other allies. The contradiction between the alliance and the imperialist countries such as Britain and the United States has been reduced to a secondary position, and the main contradiction has become the contradiction between free democracies and fascist countries.

In the past years, the Executive Committee of the Communist International was a very hot department. It also received a large amount of financial support from the alliance every year, but since the outbreak of the war, it has been completely deserted here. It is like being thrown into a corner. No one came to patronize an old newspaper in the house.

Victor got out of the car in front of the main entrance, leaving the guards and Valenka who accompanied him to wait outside, and he walked up the stairs by himself, and after showing his credentials to the two guards, he walked slowly Enter the main entrance of the building-Victor's ID used here marked that he was from the General Staff Department of Communications and was the deputy director.

As Victor was transferred to the General Staff Intelligence Bureau, the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the NKVD and the General Staff Intelligence Bureau have undergone a series of renames and reorganizations. The former head of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the NKVD was Merkulov. Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin. The Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff was renamed the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff. In order to cover his identity, Victor could use the deputy status of various departments and bureaus under the General Staff.

What is interesting is that after Feijing took over the work of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the NKVD, the first thing he did was not to adjust personnel, nor to make any rectifications, but to directly move the Foreign Intelligence Bureau out. Lubyanka No. 2 moved to Yasenevo, which is tantamount to separating this important department from the NKVD. I don't know how he did Comrade Tomberia's work.

Entering the building of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, Victor walked up the stairs directly to the third floor, and finally reached the door of the chairman's office. On the door of the office, the nameplate of Comrade Chairman: Georgi Mikhailovich was hung. · Dimitrov.

Reaching out and knocking on the door, Victor was about to reach out and push the door open, but the two closed doors had already been opened from the inside first, and a young man in his thirties was standing at the door. Inside, he looked at Victor outside the door in surprise.

"I'm Victor Viktorovich from the General Staff," Viktor took out his certificate, handed it to the young man, and said, "Comrade Georgi Mikhailovich has been contacted before, please ask. ....."

"Ah, is Colonel Victor here?" Before he could finish his words, there was already a somewhat old voice in the room. "Please come in, please come in. I have been preparing since I received the call yesterday. Finally waited until you showed up."

Hearing this sound, the young man blocking the door hurriedly stepped aside and let Victor in.

Stepping in from the door, Victor saw that in this not very spacious office, an old man with silver hair but still back was standing up from behind the only desk.

Without saying anything, Victor hurriedly stood up straight, saluted the old man with a standard military salute, and said, "Chairman Georgi Mikhailovich, I’m sorry to disturb you."

No way, the qualifications of this old Bulgarian man are too old. In 1902, he joined the Bulgarian Social Democratic Labor Party. He once led the Bulgarian revolution and was arrested by the Nazi police in Berlin. He was shocked. The Berlin "Parliamentary arson case" in the world is what he revealed in court.

After the old man fled to the Soviet Union in 1934, he was entrusted by Comrade Stalin to take charge of the work of the Communist International. He was not affected even in the treacherous purge.

"Hehe, come and sit, come and sit," Dimitrov said, standing behind his desk, waving his hands, "all for work, not to be bothered."

Victor stepped to the edge of the desk, sat down in the chair pointed to by the other party, and said, "Comrade Chairman, the purpose of my coming today must have been revealed to you by the Chief of Staff."

"Yes, yes," Dimitrov is already sixty years old. Because of the hardship he had suffered in the early revolution, he originally looked older than his actual age, and he already had obvious Parkinson's symptoms, the left hand is always trembling.

"I have prepared things for you," he said with his trembling left hand, wiping the half-meter-high file on the table, "It's just that the international communist movement has entered a low ebb in the past two years. The party organizations in many countries have been disbanded or suppressed. It is hard to say how many people can be found in the data."

"It's okay, we will screen for more specific situations," Victor said with a smile after taking a look at the thick file.

The Communist International is a coalition. To put it more concretely, it is a joint organization of the Communist and Workers' Parties of all countries in the world. The various party organizations in the organization are united around the Communist International and accept the guidance of the Communist International in many things.

Although the international communist movement has entered a low ebb in the past two years and the Communist International is also facing the fate of dissolution, Victor really valued this not. What he valued was the human resources of the Communist International. This is for the General Staff Intelligence Bureau, which is engaged in intelligence work. , Totally a huge treasure.

In fact, in terms of intelligence work, organizations such as the Communist International have inherent advantages. Since this organization is composed of the Communist Party and Workers’ Party from various countries and regions, its members can be said to be truly distributed in Many countries on five continents. Needless to say, even in Germany, although the German Communist Party and the German Social Democratic Party have been banned by the Nazis, Ernst Thalmann was arrested, and Jon Scheer died, but they went underground or concealed their identity. However, there are still many party members who are still fighting against fascism. For another example, in the United States, due to the economic crisis before the outbreak of the war, a large number of left-wing people appeared in the United States, and there were three or four organizations that believed in communism and joined the Communist International.

In Victor’s view, these people are the best targets for development. In addition, they are all locals and have the identity of their own people. There is no doubt that they have the best identity cover when engaged in intelligence work. As the new head of the General Staff Intelligence Agency, He has no reason not to use such a force.

What are the difficulties in doing a good job of external intelligence work? Undoubtedly, the most difficult part is the training and recruitment of spies. It is different from internal intelligence work. The latent personnel and counterintelligence personnel of internal intelligence work are special agents. Although they need to master many skills, they can be cultivated through their own efforts.

The spy in foreign intelligence work is two different concepts from agents. The most important thing for a spy is to hide. He doesn't need to understand many different languages, and he doesn't need to be able to drive airplanes or tanks. What he really needs is a reasonable one. Identity, sneak into a specific department to provide specific information for the online intelligence personnel.

They may be ordinary people in daily life, they may be employees of a certain unit, scientists or researchers of a certain scientific research department, but no matter what, they must have an identity familiar to those around them, and these things, It cannot be achieved by personnel training.

Spies like Richard Sorge are famous all over the world. Their fame is not because of how many skills they have mastered, but because their identities are hidden deep enough.

Victor, who was in charge of the General Staff Intelligence Bureau for the first time, the first thing he wanted to do was to expand the intelligence bureau’s overseas intelligence network, and to achieve this goal, the best way is to use the member roster of the Communist International directly in the target country. Look for people who lean towards the left and who have a specific identity. As long as these people, even if only a small part of them, can be included in the spy list of the Intelligence Agency, his achievements will be sufficient to satisfy the General Staff and the People's Committee of National Defense.

Standing up again, Victor took the top file, opened it, looked at it briefly, and asked, "Comrade Chairman, do you have a backup of these data?"

"No," Dimitrov said, shaking his head, "you know, it's not allowed to keep backups of data like this. This is our policy."

"That would be great," Victor smiled, and then asked again, "So, can I take them away now?"

Dimitrov hesitated for a moment. After a few seconds, he sighed slightly and said, "Of course, I hope these things can still play a role."

"Yes, Comrade Chairman," Victor said with a smile.