Chapter 605: Propaganda and Public Opinion Fraud
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Marshal Ogarkov had a very evil nickname in both the CIA and MI6, "Goebbels of the Red Empire". Pen ~ Fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info As the number one person who plays Western intelligence in propaganda and intelligence warfare, Marshal Ogarkov has done a very good job of keeping secrets about the ballistic missile technology of the Strategic Rocket Forces, and of course it will not be far from being transferred to the position of chairman of the KGB. That being the case, Yanayev continued to let Marshal Ogarkov play his spare time and let the Western intelligence agencies once again fall into the trap already laid by the Soviet Union.
In mid-June, an article appeared in the daily newspaper "The Communists" entitled "A Sharp Weapon for Breaking the Western Anti-Missile Situation -- Iskander," in which it was mentioned that the Strategic Rocket Force was deploying new counter-missile weapons to break the threat posed by NATO. The report is accompanied by an unusually vague picture and a small piece of information.
But just 20 hours after the publication of the report, the Soviet Politburo suddenly ordered the confiscation of the newspaper in the streets, and the police searched all newspaper sales offices in Moscow and confiscated any newspapers they had not yet sold. However, many subscribers to the newspaper Communists had already received the newspaper from the postman, but the Soviet government's move caught the attention of the CIA, who managed to even put a lot of effort into getting their hands on the paper. The CIA believes that the newspaper must contain very important intelligence information.
CIA intelligence analysts who are well-versed in Kremlin studies finally targeted the Iskander report, which was more suspicious than the others, and the name Iskander officially entered the eyes of senior leaders, including CIA Director Tenet. Also let them investigate against Iskander.
However, everything the CIA did fell into the trap orchestrated by Marshal Ogarkov, who had the main medium of political deception propaganda was radio broadcasts, rumors, preparations for outdated receptions, and press conferences. Ogarkov used almost every available factor to fool the West.
The CIA noted that the Soviet Foreign Ministry had recently made statements on the Eastern European and anti-missile issues with increasing frequency and harshness. Even in diplomatic terms like the USSR was ready. At the same time, it also made the CIA a little puzzled, the actions of the Soviet Foreign Ministry were closely in line with the strategic intentions of the high-level, could it be said that the Soviet Union was now ready to deal with the anti-missile system.
For this reason, the CIA leader, Director Tenet, has met with President Mario several times in private, asking for increased intelligence reconnaissance of Soviet high-altitude reconnaissance planes, as well as intelligence infiltration by spies. However, President Mario, taking into account the situation, rejected Director Tenet's proposal.
After that, a small move of the Soviet Union aroused the vigilance of Director Tenet, that is, Marshal Ogarkov, who had long ceased to serve in the Strategic Rocket Forces, suddenly visited the Kolomna Soviet Machine-Building Design Bureau, and he said in an interview during the interview, "The latest achievements of the Kolomna Design Bureau will effectively promote the aviation safety of the Soviet Union and make an indelible contribution to the development of the Soviet Union's Strategic Rocket Forces." ”
At the same time, Marshal Ogarkov came to mention a name, Sergei Pavlovich Nepobetimme. Chief engineer of the USSR Design Bureau of Machine-Building, general designer of the Oka missile. These are all deliberately made dramas for the West to see. It is to make them think that the current Soviet Union has once again possessed top-secret weapons that can strike the West.
The information that Marshal Ogarkov revealed in front of the TV set intentionally or unintentionally became the key to the CIA's interpretation. Plus the previous summary of intelligence analysis. Director Tenet decided that the Soviet Union may now be developing some kind of weapon specifically for anti-missile systems. And it is quite possible that this weapon has already achieved significant results and is tentatively named Iskander. Director Tenet called this Soviet plan the Iskander plan.
Not only that, but in response to NATO's strategic reconnaissance, Marshal Ogarkov also pretended to deploy Iskander missiles to the border area with Poland so that NATO reconnaissance planes could discover their "tracks."
Sure enough, NATO's reconnaissance planes patrolling the Polish border soon detected the Soviet Union's sudden deployment of missile positions in uninhabited plains, and these seven-meter-long missiles of unknown model greatly stirred NATO's nerves. Just after the reconnaissance plane was preparing to conduct a more in-depth reconnaissance, it was intercepted by Soviet Su-27 fighters in the air, and after several failed reconnaissance attempts, the missiles that appeared in the border plain area disappeared inexplicably, as if they had never appeared.
However, at this time, the entire Moscow top brass remained tight-lipped. And Tenet understands that the more such an attitude of the Soviet Union, the more it shows that this so-called Iskander program has become a secret trump card of the Soviet Union, or a trump card specifically aimed at NATO's anti-missile system.
Now the intelligence services of the West have completely followed Marshal Ogarkov's train of thought, so much so that they do not know if they have fallen into a trap.
At this point, Director Tenet couldn't sit still at all, and if this was the case, this trump card in future negotiations would change the whole situation quietly. Turning NATO's advantage in an instant. It has to be said that the Soviet plan did seem perfect, but the clues along the way betrayed the presence of missiles. The newspaper, in particular, laid bare the strategic intentions of the Soviet Union at a glance.
It was already a sunny morning in Langley, and Tenitra opened the heavy curtains, and the first rays of sunlight caught his eyes, and the blinding light made him a little unable to open his eyes.
Director Tenet had been in his office for a whole night, and the blackboard was plastered with all kinds of intelligence information, including photos of reconnaissance planes, newspaper clippings, and important places that he had outlined with a red pen, and finally all the clues focused on the word Iskander.
The mystery is solved, and he can confirm that the Soviet Union did indeed possess a terrible secret weapon.
Director Tenet clenched his fists and muttered, "It seems that I must remind President Mario to act, or the Soviets will get ahead of us." In this way, Bulgaria and Romania will lose all their efforts! (To be continued.) )