(3rd Update)

"You're saying it's a bit whimsical to let those pieces of waste regain power in the three Baltic states?" When President Mario heard about Gates' plan, his first thought was to refuse, so much so that he forgot that he was originally going to blame Gates for his strategic propaganda mistakes.

The latter excitedly paced back and forth in his office, pitching his idea to President Mario, "No, it's not a whim, it's something that can be put into action." We all know that although the Soviet Union suppressed the demands of the original Baltic people in its strong and high-handed policy, this did not mean that the Estonian people had given up resistance. Now they need a spiritual leader to lead them, and I think it's time for the government-in-exile to re-call the people to riot. ”

"Riots? Are you sure that helps? "President Mario is a little skeptical of Gates's ideas, and he is not free to let the CIA muddy the waters of Eastern Europe like President Bush, but tightly chokes the CIA's purse. For Mario, he wouldn't do an action that didn't work.

"I just want to know, what kind of effect can the CIA achieve with so much money, even providing weapons? The Pig Bay incident? Or the Los Angeles riots this time? ”

President Mario used the term Los Angeles riot to warn Gates that if his intelligence work failed and he did not achieve the results he wanted, the terrible results would happen. If it doesn't work out of Los Angeles, just wait and feel the president's wrath.

Gates suddenly became nervous, he didn't expect the president to force himself to make a "military order". He had just wanted President Mario to sign his own account for the funds generated by the operation, but he didn't expect him to make himself make a promise in the form of coercion. For a moment, Gates felt that he had walked into a dead end, or a dead end where the road had been cut off.

"Of course, it is guaranteed to achieve the results that the president is satisfied with." Gates gritted his teeth and gave Mario an ambiguous answer, neither admitting nor denying it. Leave a little room to speak in the future. He insisted because the C.I.A. had been planning the operation for almost four months, and had even been in contact with potential civil opposition forces in the three Baltic states, who could launch an armed insurgency as long as the United States was willing to provide weapons.

So this is one of the reasons why Gates dared to take such a risky action, thinking about turning the three Baltic states into another version of the Pig Bay incident, and causing a new round of national crisis in the Soviet Union at a lower cost than overthrowing Castro. Gates thinks it's a risky trade.

"Good." Mario surprisingly didn't bother too much, but signed his name directly to Gates' approval papers. He handed the document to Gates and said, "I hope you don't let me down, Gates." Whether or not the Soviet Union can make a big mistake in national policy this time is up to you. ”

President Mario belongs to the kind of person who should not think about a good life if I don't have a good life, and the United States suffered a lot in the Los Angeles incident, so the national question of the Soviet Union must not be left behind. If there is a fire in my backyard, I must let the Soviets start a fire in the backyard once.

"I'm not going to let the president down." Gates said firmly, and his hands trembled a little as he took the documents handed to him by the president. This is an event that will go down in history whether it succeeds or not. When the time comes, the CIA will make a big picture of the incident and let everyone know that they have paid a terrible price for the Soviet Union.

After Gates left the president's office, he finally took a long breath, originally if President Mario did not agree, he privately mobilized CIA funds to carry out the political struggle of the three Baltic countries, and he even took out a part of the secret circulation funds to Vytautas, fortunately, the president's final word made him not have to worry too much about this problem.

And then it is just a matter of finding a way to deal with the problem of the three Baltic states. As soon as Gates returned to the CIA. In the office hall, he clapped his hands excitedly and shouted at the employees who were working hard. "Don't be stunned, everyone is going to take action for me, and finish up the game that has been designed before, we have got the president's permission, boys, let's do a big job."

Almost everyone cheered. They were waiting for this moment to come, and these people hadn't planned such a major operation for a long time. The C.I.A. even mobilized a third of its personnel to take charge of the Soviet operation, which Gates codenamed "The Free World Strikes Back," which was intended to be revenge for the Soviet Union's previous actions.

After the Beslan incident, Gates wanted to give the Soviet bear another slap in the face. At the very least, Gates will have to deal another blow after a victory. In order to stabilize their career and move upwards. Back in the office, Gates received a call from Vytautas, who told Gates the good news with an irrepressible excitement.

"Yes, Director Gates. We have been in contact with secret organizations in Lithuania and Latvia. Although the Soviet military and police departments have been constantly tracking them down for more than a year, their main forces have not been broken up and they still maintain a certain scale. We can ship weapons from the Polish border to Lithuania and Latvia, and the liberation groups still secretly control those ports, ready for a counteroffensive. ”

"Good." The good news was definitely the most moving thing for Gates to hear in the past few days, and he told Vytautas, "I want to know how many of them there are and how many weapons they have ready to attack." ”

"Their main force is probably about 1,000 people, the vast majority of whom are young people who oppose the Soviet government, and some are former Soviet soldiers of Lithuanian or Latvian ethnicity. However, they are in a bad situation, because of the Soviet rule, the vast majority of people do not have guns, and only a small number of people have small-caliber pistols. Vytautas replied.

Hearing that the main force was actually young people who had not received any military training, Gates questioned their combat ability, "In this way, you smuggle some of the young people to Poland, where they will receive new armed training." ”

As the first front of the anti-Soviet and anti-Russian front, Poland and the Soviet Union had an almost hereditary feud, and this was the seed that was planted from the time of the First Republic. Because of this, the CIA was able to legitimately set up its own safe houses and training bases in the local area, armed and trained anti-Soviet elements. And after Poland's independence in 1989, it was naturally willing to get closer to NATO and the United States, and Poland's ambition was not to become a Central European power again and restore the First Republic? Now that the opportunity to oppose the Soviet Union is in front of you, Poland has joined the stealth quest to challenge the red polar bear without even thinking about it.

The CIA's consideration was to train some of the Polish youth to become excellent snipers, and even after the failure of the uprising, they could use the assassination of leaders to harass the Soviet regime for a long time. Anyway, the CIA never trades at a loss, and they calculate just right every step of the way.

"Okay, we'll have the Resistance pick out some good people to go to Poland for training." Vytautas replied. After discussing some other important details with Gates, he hung up the phone and began to prepare a new plan.

At the same time, Gates also dialed the CIA's director of strategic operations for Central Europe, and he briefly proposed that a group of professional soldiers should be hired to form a combat mercenary to cooperate with the resistance personnel of the three Baltic countries to carry out armed turmoil. Gates stressed that it is better to have some guys with simple backgrounds and never get involved with KGB spies.

Unbeknownst to the CIA, while they were in full swing of their conspiracy, the same intelligence document was sent to Yanayev's desk, and it was the recent actions of the secret Baltic Resistance that were recorded, through which the Soviet Union had a clear understanding of the intricate secret forces of the three Baltic states.

CIA Director Gates even overlooked the crucial fact that every step he took was exactly as he had imagined, completely unaware of whether the plan was going too well, whether the enemy was incorrigibly stupid, or whether he was stepping into a more sophisticated trap. (To be continued.) )