Chapter 52 The KGB Chairman's Concern
In his office, Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was going through a pile of documents that his secretary had just brought in. Since becoming chairman of the National Security Council (KGB) in 1967, Andropov has been transforming the world's most famous intelligence agency in his own way. Although the KGB under his leadership has as many as 700,000 employees and the same number of spies, the KGB with a large number of personnel is the most efficient government department in the entire Soviet Union.
Andropov's office, although large, is unpretentious, and apart from the necessary portraits of Brezhnev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and portraits of Lenin and Stalin, there are no fine oil paintings to be seen here. There is no resplendent decoration here, the walls are just pasted with ordinary wallpaper, and even the furniture is ordinary. Andropov's desk is piled high with paperwork, and on his desk are five telephones, one red and four black. The red one is used to contact the supreme leader Brezhnev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the other ones also have their own purposes.
As he grew older, Andropov's body began to suffer from many problems. He suffered from high blood pressure, diabetes, and a poor heart. He also suffered from intestinal diseases, arthritis, and gout. Have long-term kidney disease. His wife, Tatiana Filippovna, had specially instructed his secretary to remind him to take a break every half hour of work.
Half an hour soon passed, and Andropov's secretary Lyudmila walked into Andropov's office. Andropov was an easy-going person, and many people commented that he was a helpful A well-bred, scholarly person. He wouldn't be furious when his secretary suddenly broke into his office. Therefore, as long as it is necessary for work, Lyudmila can enter his office without asking for instructions.
Andropov looked up at Lyudmila and realized that it was probably time, so he picked up a document and walked to the sofa. Lyudmila quickly reminded: "Mr. Chairman, you need to rest more."
"I know Lyudmila, just for a while!" Andropov smiled at Lyudmila's kind reminder. Lyudmila turned and left helplessly, closing the office door from the outside. Andropov sat on the sofa in a comfortable posture, continuing to flip through the documents in his hand. This is a document reported by the personnel who carried out the Young Eagle Project. The Young Eagle Project was a top-secret program within the KGB. The main content is to send young KGB cadres who are politically innocent and have ordinary family relationships to secretly investigate the corruption of local officials. Andropov arranged for his cronies to carry out this plan in secret. Unlike most officials in the current Soviet Union, Andropov is a clean and self-disciplined person. Whether it is for his family or himself, he always has strict requirements, and he does not engage in privileges or seek personal gain. As head of intelligence, he knew all too well that corruption and the privileged were corrupting the country. Although Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, did not take this seriously, Andropov still hoped to change this situation.
As the plan continued to deepen, some reports were gradually collected to the KGB headquarters. Under the atmosphere of the entire officialdom, the work of these dispatched cadres was generally difficult. Moreover, the support that the KGB headquarters can give these guys is limited, because this plan does not conform to the ideology of Brezhnev, the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. This is just Andropov's personal wishes. Andropov is like Farmers, too, scatter these seeds into fields, hoping that someday some of them will bear fruit.
Andropov flipped through the thick report, which was the progress of the Young Eagle Project in the past week. When he turned to the page of Gorky City, his fast flipping hands stopped. This is a letter Reporting the report of his immediate boss, the evidence listed above is very detailed, and Andropov is very clear that the report that can be handed over to him will naturally not be unverified. But what really caught his attention was that the information was too detailed.
The details are almost as if the reporter saw it with his own eyes. Having been engaged in intelligence work for so many years, Andropov knew very well how difficult it was. Andropov glanced again at the speaker's name, Alexei Alexievich Chernenko, whom Andropov remembered. Andropov has an amazing memory, as long as he wants to remember things, he will not forget them. It seems that these young people do have the ability to investigate in such detail.
Looking at the amount of money in the report, Andropov felt a surge of anger in his heart. General Secretary Brezhnev was too lenient to those corrupt officials. These guys received the salaries of the Soviets. But in private, he used the power in his hands to make a fortune, and even defected to the enemies of the Soviet Union. Every amount of money here is a huge sum of money for ordinary people. Andropov's own salary is only 1,200 rubles, which is not even enough for these guys to pay for a meal. These guys must be given some color. The results of the hard work of the subordinates cannot just be stored in the KGB archives and wait to be dusted. He wrote a line on this report, "Give first-class help if necessary, otherwise continue to wait and see."
Andropov returned to his desk, first dialed the phone number of his secretary Lyudmila, and he ordered on the phone: "Lyudmila, give me a person's information, his name is Alek Sergei Alexievich Chernenko, originally from the Leningrad branch, is now sent to the city of Gorky."
Lyudmila was very efficient. In less than five minutes, a detailed report was placed in front of Andropov. It records in detail all the information about Chernenko from elementary school to university, and after he joined the work, as well as a detailed kinship table.
Andropov looked at this document. Chernenko's resume was very simple. He had excellent grades since he was a child, and was finally admitted to the law department of Leningrad University. After graduation, I participated in a one-year KGB training after inspection, and then successfully joined the KGB Leningrad branch. After that, my work was ordinary, and there was nothing special about it. If he hadn't joined the KGB, I'm afraid his life would be very boring. Just like an ordinary person, he spends his life busy. Andropov thought to himself, "Let's see what kind of surprise you can bring me, little guy."
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At the same time, Alexei Alexievich Chernenko was also sitting at his desk looking at the first thing that the two mysterious people gave him to do. Information on the injury case.