Chapter 278
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"Leningrad Air Traffic Control? Where did a commercial jet leave last night from apron 3? What? No such plane? Impossible? I have conclusive proof that there was one Leaving the third apron at 9:30 last night, there is no way your flight records do not have this plane..." Balanikov complained angrily to the staff of the Leningrad Air Traffic Management Bureau.
"If you don't believe it, come and see for yourself! There is no such plane in the air traffic control records. I don't know where you heard it from. I can tell you with certainty that it never took off like this. A plane." The people from the Air Traffic Management Bureau responded unceremoniously, so what if the other party is the KGB, what era is it now, the era when the KGB was domineering has long passed. The Air Traffic Management Bureau has no obligation to cooperate with the KGB's unreasonable demands.
Since the time when the plane landed in Red Square, the Soviet Union has invested heavily, and the western air defense network, which is said to be indestructible, has completely become an international joke. Gorbachev no longer wanted to believe the nonsense of the military and intelligence services. Shortly after the Red Square incident, the heads of the Soviet Ministry of Defense and the KGB resigned one after another, and their successors were not recognized as excellent leaders in military or intelligence work, but mediocre people who were promoted by surprise.
The reason why Gorbachev did this was to weaken the power of the military and the KGB, because the top officials of these two departments were promoted from the bottom deputy ministerial cadres, so they naturally did not The right to enter the Politburo, which Gorbachev used to drive the KGB and Ministry of Defense out of the Politburo. Since then, the treatment of the KGB military has taken a sharp turn for the worse.
As the Soviet Union ended the war in Afghanistan and lost its leadership in Eastern Europe, the originally hot Soviet foreign troops and foreign intelligence agencies became bloated. Due to the sharp reduction in business and cuts in funding, the KGB and the Ministry of Defense had to start experienced their own painful weight loss process.
Originally, the four new-generation Marshal Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers were used by Seriosha to trade with Brazil, India, China, and Argentina. A large number of ships in the Pacific Fleet were dismantled and transformed into ocean-going fishing boats. A large number of tanks and armored combat vehicles stockpiled in response to NATO's attack were also taken away by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation for clearance. Some were sold to Iraq in exchange for oil, and some were removed for agricultural use. machinery or engineering machinery. The marshals of the Ministry of Defense were heartbroken by this, but they couldn't say nothing to Seryozha's request. Because those troops who retreated from Eastern Europe and Afghanistan are now working on those economic projects organized by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
The same is true for the KGB, which used to be a one-in-a-million elite. But now, when the Soviet Union stopped its external expansion, they became dispensable people.
It is not difficult for those elites who come back from Eastern Europe to find a job in the foreign trade industry in Mediterranean Trading Company with their excellent foreign language skills and years of living experience abroad. But some of the KGB are too old, whether it is a private enterprise or other state-owned enterprises, there are few suitable positions to accept them,
Their lives fell from heaven to hell in one fell swoop.
Who made this country into what it is today, of course, those moths who have violated the interests of the people and the country. As long as Balanikov is still in the KGB, he will not give up his efforts. Air Traffic Management Bureau not cooperating? So what, and the military! As long as it is taking off and recording, it cannot escape the military's radar. Those people want to hide the fact that this flight exists. How can it be so simple?
"Hello, is this the Western Air Defense Command of the Ministry of Defense? I am the head of the KGB's domestic intelligence department. I would like to know about the planes that took off from Leningrad Airport at 9:30 last night. Yes, all of them! Please send them as soon as possible. Give me this report. Yes, it's important..." If units like Air Traffic Control don't care about the KGB, what about the Ministry of Defense? They are brothers and sisters with the KGB now, will they also perfunctory the KGB?
Balanikov quickly got the radar records of that night, and from them, he got the information he wanted almost effortlessly!
"Hello, is the Gorky branch office? I want you to investigate. A commercial plane landed at Gorky's airport yesterday. I want you to go and see if the plane is parked in a hangar somewhere. Yes, I just want to check it out and don’t say anything to the public!” Balanikov cautiously contacted the Gorky branch, and after he sent instructions to the other party to request assistance, the Gorky branch immediately took the order from the headquarters as a big deal.
It is almost impossible for such a large plane to disappear out of thin air. Sergesha was afraid that the disappearance of a group of international celebrities from Leningrad would attract the attention of those who cared, so he deliberately disappeared from the Leningrad Air Traffic Management Bureau. The flight records of these planes were expunged from the flight records. But Balanikov's insistence was beyond Seryozha's expectation. Seryozha has not yet been able to command the Soviet Union's western air defense network to serve him. Of course, if he really ordered the Ministry of Defense to do so, it would be an unwarranted fire!
The Gorky branch quickly responded to Balanikov's translation, and Balanikov could hardly believe it. According to the Gorky Branch Bureau, eight planes landed on the runway of Gorky Airport one after another that night. Now these planes are under strict surveillance and locked in the hangar of Gorky Airport.
After Balanikov hung up the phone, a long-lost smile appeared on his face. This time he would not let that cunning prey escape again.
Balanikov left No. 11 Dzerzhinsky Square almost without thinking, and he booked the fastest plane to Gorky. Then I didn't even have time to prepare my luggage, so I rushed directly to the Moscow airport. He can't wait to fly to Gorky right now, find those planes, and hide them in the hangar. He wants to see who has the power to call the godfather of the mafia in Italy to the Soviet Union Come. By the way, it seems that a heavyweight figure of the Italian mafia died in Gorky ten years ago. Is it all a coincidence?
Balanikov's brain had never been so active. On the way to the airport, Balanikov kept imagining the truth of the matter. He was really curious as to what kind of people were behind this organization with hands and eyes in the sky.