Chapter 1435: Taking over the Counselor Department

“Worried mother.” Alexeyev put down his briefcase, gave Foltseva a big hug, and inquired with a smile, “Haven’t been drinking, have you? Has your sister looked after you yet? I’ll have to ask her.”

“No drinking, as long as you’re back safe and sound, I don’t need that sort of thing. I’m a one a strong weaver.” Foltseva stretched out her arm and gestured, pretending that she had a sense of strength, “There are a lot of things over in London, but ultimately it’s a foreign country, it’s fine to have experienced it, don’t go to work abroad in the future.”

“Good!” Alexeyev full of promise, directly sit down not rusty at all, here is originally his home, there is nothing to be rusty, then silent for a moment, “I have seen Sir.”

“Alyosha, it’s nothing to do with you, it was me who was not firm in my position at that time. I really shouldn’t have let you know about it.” Foltseva blushed, expressing regret for having told the child’s life when she was physically and mentally weak before, “I’m sorry, you must have been very troubled while you were in London.”

“Troubled for a while, but I’m still strong.” Alexeyev replied with a grimace, “It doesn’t change anything, we serve a different country and national relations are not very friendly.”

Chesty Alexeev didn’t put words in his mouth, on the one hand he was afraid that his mother would have a hard time because of the antagonistic relations, on the other hand, countries that are not very friendly are not impossible to work with.

It’s like this time on the issue of Israel, he came back and really had to pay attention to it.

The conversation on the issue of Israel, originally informed Foltseva, the Culture Tsar was silent for a moment and replied very seriously, “With my understanding of him, he will not lie to you on such matters. Characteristically he possesses both boldness and prudence, and when it comes to international situations he will use the former attitude.”

Probably not just in international situations either, or how else did he get here? Was it the result of negotiations between an Englishman and a Soviet? Aliksheyev thought so, and his heart became even more cloying, the Potsdam Conference, so it seems that it was indeed negotiated.

After satisfying Foltseva’s curiosity, Alexeyev is not talking about London, just said some just to satisfy his mother’s curiosity, he has completed the posting, there should not be the opportunity to meet in the future, naturally there is no need to mention strangers all the time, asked his mother what are the big events in the country recently.

“There are no major events domestically, but internationally, Nixon’s visit to China has caused the Central Presidium to discuss the situation, a situation that was beyond our expectations. This result we thought about, but we didn’t expect it to happen so soon.” Foltseva sighed, this was also the most recent international event.

“This matter?” Alexeyev also remembered his biological father, in fact the day the two met was the day Nixon visited China.

Involving the situation in East Asia, the supreme authority also leaked out just a few words, of course that was mainly to ridicule the Soviet Union, ridicule the history of Russia’s foreign relations, either resistance to increase the iron rod thickened, or like a licking dog just to know Hui.

Because of nuclear weapons technology, the United States and the United Kingdom have flipped over, tearing up previous agreements, the Soviet Union even dared to teach nuclear weapons technology hand in hand, and will certainly regret it later.

One year the border conflict, the next year the Mi6 helicopters were exported as if nothing had happened. Alexeev knew that Allen Wilson was provoking, but so soon Nixon visited China. He also had to recognize that, to some extent, the enemy had a point.

Alexeyev did not know at this time that his old father, who was obliged to provoke the internal relations of the Soviet Union, was making an impassioned speech at a Foreign Office meeting on the historical significance of expanding Sino-British economic and trade relations.

To provoke the internal relations of rival camps, that all should be done, but my Great Britain has its own national conditions here, must catch up with this time of economic and trade development, the value of the pound needs to be linked to productivity.

Nixon’s political legacy was overthrown by Reagan most of the United States for a long time did not care about what the demographic dividend, but the United Kingdom can not not care about, at present can not enter the temporary use of Bangladesh to deal with deal with, once the time is ripe, that is a day can not be delayed.

The Soviet Union should adhere to the guidelines of sniffing out and eliminating traitors, the United States should adhere to the principle of clear distinction between enemy and self, but I should show the independent flexibility of the diplomatic field.

“Without getting into all that, this return must have been a lot of work on Mother’s part.” Alexeyev shook off the tumultuous thoughts and sought confirmation from Foltseva whether there was not a cultural tsar’s operation among the hang-ups he had ended this time.

Foltseva also admitted with a pained nod, “I’m really not getting any younger, and since you’ve chosen to go into work in Lubyanka, that department I don’t know how to describe, how can I be at ease if I don’t let you move upwards quickly.”

“Working in the country? That would be the General Directorate of Domestic Defense.” Alexeyev nodded and asked, “That department?”

“Right now there are three departments for you to consider, Department Three, Department Six, and Department Eleven of the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence.” Foltseva had obviously made arrangements, “While the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence still has the Operations Execution Department, that department does things that you should never touch.”

The Operations Executive Department was engaged in assassinations, Foltseva did not want her child to come into contact with this department, the reason why she made sure to let her son climb a little faster, was it not because the KGB department was not safe. The KGB and the predecessor Ministry of Internal Affairs, which leaders were left in peace.

Before the war, not to mention, one of them shall not die, after the war, most of the leaders of the downfall is also dishonorable, Xie Leping and Semichasne has been considered the best end, do not know what will happen to Andropov later.

But her child chose this department, Foltseva ultimately did not succeed in stopping it, and now can only let their children try not to enter the part of the hands stained with blood.

“Departments three and six of the Directorate of Domestic Defense Intelligence? Department Three is surveillance from Germanic and Nordic countries. Department Six is the underdeveloped countries outside of Europe. These two departments?” Alexeyev wasn’t very willing; the Directorate General of Domestic Defense Intelligence was naturally important, no less important than the role of the Directorate General of Foreign Intelligence, but the gold content of the subordinate departments was average.

Departments of the Directorate of Domestic Defense Intelligence, the really important ones are not the six departments of the first five continents and regions according to the geographical division, but the further back the more important they are, the seventh department is the department of the Directorate of the largest number of people, is responsible for the whole of the USSR’s foreign tourists, the monitoring of the major tourist attractions and places to visit, as well as and the countries of the tourism organization to contact, to set up a representative of the organization of the USSR’s tourist routes, and in the hotels in the various tourist locations and petrol stations. The Department of Tourism.

Department VIII is the technical department, responsible for computer research and development in the USSR. The ninth department was responsible for foreign students, the tenth department dealt with the media outside the country, and the eleventh department worked with groups of Soviet nationals going abroad to confirm the reliability of these people.

Department Twelve. It’s the KGB’s anti-corruption division, responsible for monitoring governments and corporations and investigating instances of graft.
The twelve departments of the Directorate General of Domestic Defense Intelligence, three and six of which could be arranged? But Alexeyev, obviously, wasn’t willing to go in and waste his time.
“I’ll go to the eleventh department of the first general directorate, this department is more special, although it is an external department, but in fact, it is similar to the domestic work, and will not often go abroad.” Alexeyev thought about it and decided that it would be better to work in the General Directorate of External Intelligence, deciding to work in the Department of Counselors, which was easy to arrange.
The eleventh department of the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence was actually responsible for is was the work of the Soviet allies, coordinating the intelligence agencies of the Soviet allies to cooperate in collective action, it was fair to say that it was guidance.
Nearly two hundred diplomats were also members of this department, from Havana in Latin America, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, and Sofia in Eastern Europe, to Damascus and Aden in the Middle East, and Kinshasa in Africa.
“The Department of Counselors, which mainly directs the work of the Allies, does most of its work in Eastern Europe, just as well.” Foltseva breathed a sigh of relief, he still didn’t want his son to be abroad all the time, but it was still acceptable within the confines of Eastern Europe, “And you should get married sooner, you’re not too young anymore, it puts my mind at ease as well.”
Kryuchkov presided over Alexeyev’s promotion on Andropov’s behalf, returning from the UK Alexeyev was promoted to Colonel, both were appointed Head of Department XI in the General Directorate of Foreign Intelligence, responsible for liaising and coordinating the Soviet Union’s contacts with the various Allied countries.
Promotion to colonel at this age, already a step away from general, except for the group of Shelepin who rocketed after the war, can be considered very rare. It was also rare within the KGB, but it wasn’t unacceptable when one thought of Brezhneva’s husband, Yuri Mikhailovich Churbanov, who had rushed straight to colonel in a year.
At least compared to Brezhnev’s ride-along, Alexeyev had literally cracked a couple of major espionage cases, and was in every sense of the word meritorious enough that age was no longer a big issue.
“The President is very much looking forward to the fact that Alyosha will be able to make proud achievements in his post in the Eleventh Department.” Kryuchkov, as Andropov’s close friend and confidant, spoke like this in a sense representing the views of Lubyanka’s number one.
“Comrade Kryuchkov, I will do my best.” Alexeyev assured with a serious face, and waited until Kryuchkov had left and immediately got into the swing of things, picking up the phone and saying directly, “This is Alexeyev, I need information on the Middle East, especially on the Palestinian-Israeli issue.”
“The potential of Xiangjiang has not yet been tapped, I hope that trade in East Asia is a torrent, a torrent that moisturizes the body of the British Empire, and where it passes, it is as if the desert turns into an oasis.”
British Foreign Office’s Asian economic and trade conference, Alan Wilson swore and shouted slogans, before and the good Dahl than than chatter? That is all a minor problem, Sino-British relations are not Sino-Soviet relations, diplomacy can not be rigid, to show full flexibility.