The Military-industrial Scientific Research System of the Academic Master Chapter 709

Chapter 709 The three of us

 Compared to China, which is the manipulator behind the scenes and therefore fully aware of the whole situation, and the United States, which is the culprit and does not know the whole picture but can understand most of the joints, the EU's response is somewhat slow.

Mainly because since the Balkan crisis broke out at the end of March, they have changed from talking about the situation in the Balkans to being the soy sauce.

The situation was completely dominated by the Allied Command in Campania and the Allied Air Command Center in Emilia Romagna.

The main purpose of the US military launching the Allied Forces Operation was to disrupt Europe and run on the euro. In addition, it has long realized that these European allies are extremely unreliable. The intelligence briefing to them is basically equivalent to sending it to Lubyanka Square at the same time.

Although the Cold War is over, the inertia is still there, so it is naturally impossible to be open and honest with European "allies".

 In this case, most European countries actually rely heavily on their foreign media to obtain information on the front line.

ˆAlthough it is called a "media", a considerable number of its staff are almost semi-open intelligence agency agents.

In normal times, there seems to be nothing wrong with relying on this method, even because he is on the front line and can rely on his status as a reporter to go on a rampage on certain occasions. The speed of obtaining information is compared to that of the Allied commanders who rely on long-range reconnaissance and electronic warfare methods. The department needs to be a little faster.

 But last night, for reasons well known to all, these media…

However, as a senior French intelligence officer, his contacts in Europe are much richer than those of Ding Gaoheng.

 Because intelligence agents from these two countries also disguised themselves as media, and therefore stayed in the same hotel as French TV crews.

This contact, but there is a problem with the contact -

So, as usual, he first notified the Inter-Ministerial Intelligence Committee, and then contacted his subordinates and asked them to contact intelligence personnel in the Balkans through "special channels" to confirm the local situation.

At this time, Sanson finally began to realize that something was not quite right.

Allied aircraft are not allowed to fly south of 45° north latitude.

After all, he is an intelligence officer. For France, the United Kingdom and the United States are also "very suspicious allies." Some things can be kept secret, but they must be known.

This is completely different from the nature of the media broadcast signal being cut off.

Abnormal situations like this tonight are obviously a signal that the US military is performing a special mission.

So he called an acquaintance working in Brussels and asked if there would be a large-scale military operation that night.

 The results were not surprising at all.

 In fact, at this point, it is impossible for a normal person to imagine that his family was directly hit by six aerial bombs.

 In this case, it seems that there is only one possibility left...

If it is really attacked by the other party's security agency, basically everyone will not be able to escape.

 Can't contact all of them.

 It's just that this is not the case.

 This further confirmed Sanson's conjecture—

You must know that intelligence agencies rely on military satellites for communication. Although the satellites themselves belong to France, the communication frequency band characteristics are in line with NATO standards.

Then, the broadcast signal suddenly stopped.

Same with Sanson.

Of course the British were also there, but in the eyes of Sanson, a Frenchman, the Angsa barbarians on the other side of the strait were really not one of his own.

No matter what happens, the U.S. military cannot interfere with the communication tools it uses.

 In fact, even at this point, he still did not think about the fact that his family was killed. He was mainly worried about whether he was controlled by the local counterintelligence agency.

Furthermore, technical personnel from the General Directorate of External Security assured that the satellite was in normal working order and that there were no problems with their communication with intelligence personnel in other parts of the world.

The intelligence committee was also unable to contact frontline personnel.

It should be said that his guess is correct to a certain extent.

Hence, Sanson's first reaction was to contact his counterparts in Germany and Italy.

 Our intelligence officers should have been praised.

At first, Sanson didn't take it seriously. His first reaction was to call a friend who worked at a national television station.

 It's not that this agency is very capable in terms of capabilities, but that their director Yannick Sanson, like Ding Gaoheng, was watching TV because of insomnia at 23:47 local time.

 The first person to realize that something was wrong was the French Directorate General for External Security.

 Then I quickly received news that the source of the broadcast signal suddenly disappeared.

 The problem is not with the signal, but with the people or equipment.

Next, Mr. Director continued to make the same judgment as Ding Gaoheng, and logically believed that electromagnetic interference may have been released due to military operations.

He simply wanted to know what mission the Americans were performing tonight without telling their allies, even at the expense of interfering with radio and television satellites.

The other party even asked him for help asking what the reason was.

There is also a Spanish media in this hotel, but they are really just media and are not involved in intelligence work.

Having worked in intelligence agencies for most of his life, he certainly knows that when the U.S. military conducts military operations that truly involve core secrets, it will not share intelligence with its allies. At most, it will only report it after the fact.

  Lost contact.

 Sansong had been suffering from insomnia and couldn't sleep, but after being so startled, he didn't even feel sleepy at all.

  The answer was that not only was there no large-scale military action at night, but a request from the US military was even forwarded.

 Being promoted by the other party's security agency is a huge dereliction of duty by the leadership of the intelligence agency.

 Hence, Sanson's first reaction was to suppress the matter first.

Although the intelligence officers were arrested, and they were arrested together with unknowing real media staff, it was a major event that could shock the people, and it was impossible to really hide it.

 But at least we can find a way to throw the blame away.

 Early morning local time the next day, 0:20.

Under tremendous pressure to shirk the blame, Sanson rushed from home to the General Intelligence Bureau's office half an hour later and held a video and telephone conference with two other colleagues who were also forced to work overtime because they were worried about taking the blame.

After some routine bickering and incompetent rage, the three of them realized that the biggest trouble at the moment was that after the Allied operation began, they had cut off official communication channels with the Balkans.

 In other words, even if you want to negotiate terms with the other party now, you can't talk.

“Perhaps... we can try to find a third-party country to coordinate?”

Sanson was the first to try to suggest.

 “Third-party countries? What about?”

 Simone Crosetto, director of the Italian Foreign Intelligence and Security Service, shrugged, obviously not very optimistic about this idea:

“And more importantly, we have no leverage.” Originally, opinions within the EU on the Balkans were not unified, and quite a few people believed that a strategy of maximum pressure should be adopted in order to maximize interests.

Once you really break your skin, there will be no room for maneuver.

However, overconfidence and the Americans' fanning the flames from behind still caused this relatively rational voice to be drowned in the end.

 Crosseto was one of the important supporters of this point of view.

Nowadays, the way I speak is naturally a bit strange.

"We will talk about the exchange of intelligence personnel later. The top priority is that we must understand as much as possible about the situation. It is not only our agents who have lost contact this time, but also many people from several media outlets. We cannot hide it for too long. If we don't know everything when faced with questioning, the situation will be in trouble..."

The head of the Federal Intelligence Service, Volker Luedler, is a German in the traditional sense. He is old-fashioned and unsmiling. Seeing that the other two colleagues seemed to have a tendency to fight among themselves, he quickly made peace in the middle:

"When the two Germanys were reunified, in order to express goodwill, our intelligence agency recruited some Stasi members. Although the arrangements were for work that did not touch the core business, we can still use these connections to cooperate with our old rival the Federal Republic of Germany. Contact the Security Bureau and ask them to act as an intermediary.”

Even during the Cold War, both sides of the Iron Curtain maintained fairly smooth channels for information exchange, let alone now.

"But...it is also possible that the FSB was behind this incident. You must know that the TV broadcast signal was suddenly cut off, and all our media and intelligence personnel lost contact almost at the same time. Such a high-level counterintelligence operation could only rely on the Balkans It may be difficult for regional security agencies to do so.”

Sanson is still a little worried:

 “If we contact each other like this now, will it happen...”

 He was still a little worried about losing face.

 Crosseto seizes every opportunity and continues to be weird:

“It doesn't matter, anyway, we have often lost people like this in the past half century, and we don't care if we lose them once or twice more..."

Rudler knew that now was not the time to quarrel, so he quickly intervened before Sanson Hongwen:

“Anyway, we don't have any evidence yet, and we're not even sure what happened.”

“Besides, even if the Russians take action, we can first listen to their conditions...”

 After some coordination, the three people finally managed to unify their opinions.

 In fact, from the perspective of Rudler, who knows the Russians better, this matter does not look like the handiwork of the Federal Security Service.

 There are agents hidden in the media, which are basically known to the Russians.

But no matter in terms of ability or willingness, the other party has absolutely no reason to take action at this time point.

Moreover, he does it without any discernment.

 The way he behaves is too rough.

Moreover, the role that the intelligence personnel of the three countries can play is actually not much different from that of the real media. There is really no need to go to war...

But as to what other possibilities there are, Rudler really can't guess.

 More than a hundred people, all lost contact.

If it weren't for being controlled, could it be possible that they all died?

Just as he was thinking this, the phone on Sanson's desk suddenly rang on the other side of the meeting.

Logically speaking, when this kind of leader is in a meeting, unless there is something shocking, his subordinates will not call in.

The latter was about to turn off the voice system when he heard the phones ringing from Crosetto and Rudler.

 The three of them picked up the phone almost at the same time.

“Director, we just received news from our staff in Brussels.”

The slightly anxious voice of his subordinate came from Rudler's phone:

"Our intelligence station in the Balkans suddenly experienced a violent explosion just before midnight. The casualties are currently unknown. According to the current information, it is likely that a bomb dropped by a US B2 bomber... But this The bomber did not seem to have returned, and it was probably shot down by air defense forces..."

Lüdler never expected that the possibility he had just thought about would come true. His mind suddenly buzzed, his vision went dark, and he almost lost consciousness.

 After finally recovering, he quickly raised his head and looked at the TV screen in front of him.

Even though all three of them turned off their voices, the other two looked like they had seen a ghost.

 The news they received should be the same...

 The news spread to the top levels of major EU countries in a very short period of time.

 In fact, at this point, their speed of information acquisition is still far ahead of those in Beijing and Moscow, which are thousands of kilometers away—

After the B2 was shot down, in order to completely blow up the wreckage and rescue the pilot, the US military dispatched the entire deck of the Roosevelt and launched a very high-intensity attack wave. Therefore, although the overseas agencies of the latter two were also aware of the explosion, However, due to strong electromagnetic interference, there was no way to transmit the information back to the country in the first time.

In addition to being anxious, we can only take risks and go out in all directions without clear instructions to see if we can collect some useful information.

 However, in the following hours, the EU countries did almost nothing except holding an emergency meeting of leaders and saying a few nonsense words at the press conference.

 This is actually understandable—

 European countries are already highly dependent on the US military for their defense.

However, this time the culprit was the other party.

 Who can we turn to to seek justice?

 Until almost morning, the United States gave an explanation that "an anti-aircraft missile missed its target and then hit by mistake."

Everyone knows that this statement is nonsense, but for European countries that dare to be angry but dare not speak out and do not want to make the matter bigger, it is a relatively easy choice to calm down the matter.

As long as you put the blame on the enemy, you will be innocent.

 Originally, everyone was ready to cooperate.

As a result, within a few hours, several international media outlets that were not too concerned about the excitement exposed a clear photo of an unexploded bomb—

 Three GBU31.

 At present, only the US military is using it.

Now, even covering the lid is a luxury.

In order to quell domestic public anger, all countries had no choice but to make further decisions to suspend participation in allied operations.

Then…

 The state of brain death continues to be maintained.

 And this also caused them to miss their last opportunity to seize the initiative...

 (End of this chapter)

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