USSR 1991

The middle-aged man looked at the other party with a condescending attitude, and said without any emotion.

"Simeon Wise."

Chapter 394 Two Arms Dealers Go to War

Simeon Wise.

Spokesperson for several American arms giants. The chairman of the arms club at that time was still tenured for life. During the Afghan war in the 80s, he was the liaison between Western Congressman Charlie Wilson and the guerrillas of Muzahiddin in Afghanistan. He was also the one who changed Afghanistan. The weapon supplier of Mr. Charlie in the war pattern.

In comparison, Talabal is just a tribal veteran of the local Sunni faction. In fact, he dare not offend these murderous monsters of the CIA. province of Barr.I had no choice but to call another money transaction location and ask them to prepare all the previous US dollars and submit them to the contact person of the CIA.

Then Simeon also made a call to inform the operator at another location that all the weapons could be given to them. After the other party confirmed the amount and amount, the transaction thousands of miles away was concluded.Simeon is just playing the role of the mastermind behind the scenes. After all, he can't let others find out that the CIA is secretly supporting the enemies of the United States behind the scenes behind the backs of senior US government officials.

Simeon put down the phone, reached out to shake hands with the other party in a friendly way, and said with a smile, "We are very much looking forward to working with you again, and the CIA must also be very happy to see our deal. Oh, and, the CIA I don’t really like that our trading partner has an affair with other forces that want to get involved in the Middle East, so don’t do anything stupid.”

Tarabale just glanced at him and said nothing.Everyone knows what other forces mean. The "Kurdish Crescent Belt" where Kurds gathered in Surmaniyah, Abil and Duhuk provinces has almost become the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union's arms sales and military aid. , Even neighboring Turkey is nervously staring at every move in this area.I am deeply afraid that the full-fledged Kurds will unite with the Turkish Workers' Party to launch an independent nation-building movement.

"Get a life back, hoo." The mercenaries sitting in the car breathed a sigh of relief, they didn't expect that the CIA representative beside them would resolve a crisis with just a few words.

While the others were talking and laughing, Simeon still maintained his indifferent expression, looked at the excited crowd, and just shook his head slightly, "This arms deal is just the beginning, we The beginning of a declaration of war on Soviet power."

The car fell silent instantly, and everyone looked at Simeon, hoping that he could continue talking.

"The Soviet Union controls the largest export of black and gray arms in the world today. There are many countries that envy this piece of cake. It's just that the leaders of these countries who are controlled by votes dare not export violence and blood in a fair manner like the Soviet Union. , I can only sneakily pray not to be caught. Now the CIA wants to break the rules of the Soviet Union, and the gray arms trade controlled by the Soviet Union, the CIA also wants to take a share."

"Do you know what the biggest problem is when two arms dealers go to war?" Simeon said to the person next to him, "that is, there are endless bullets between the two sides. This is bound to be a protracted war. And the first The one to be sacrificed is Victor Bout."

Victor spent time in Saudi Arabia sorting out his fake passport information before heading to Iraq.As one of the largest international arms dealers, Victor owns a huge fleet of Antonov cargo aircraft. His Seth Airways transports a large number of Soviet-made weapons to areas of armed conflict around the world every year in exchange for a steady stream of foreign exchange and diamond.There is also an invisible war among the five permanent members.

When Victor saw the news from the KGB Intelligence Agency, he was still sorting out relevant documents.After quickly reading the information on the paper, he took out the lighter and burned the paper to ashes.

"Well, it's interesting. I didn't expect the CIA to choose the Sunnis instead of the Shiites. Did you see the weakness of the Shiites?" Victor replied to himself.In the next quarter of an hour, he will go to Erbil, which is the capital of the Kurdish Autonomous Region. During the Iraq war, through the Soviet Union's careful operation, it became an independent zone without any control.

After the Turkish Strait was opened, almost the entire Black Sea became the back garden of the Soviet Union. The joint trusteeship system of the Strait resulted in Soviet ships passing through the Turkish Strait without being subject to boarding inspections by the Turkish side, and they were transported to Kurdish autonomous provinces via Iran.This simply facilitated the Soviet Union's arms sales in the Middle East.

Just when all the formalities were ready, the door of the hotel was suddenly knocked open, and a group of police officers rushed in. Victor very wisely raised his hands above his head and knelt on the ground.The police officers with MP5 pointed their guns at Victor. After everything in the room was under the control of the police, the police in suits and leather shoes came in.

"What's going on?" Victor said.

But the other party didn't talk nonsense to him, and said directly, "We are personnel of Interpol, Mr. Victor, you are involved in illegal arms smuggling, come with us now. You have the right to remain silent now, but you Every word spoken will be evidence in court."

At this time, Victor chose to remain silent. He looked at the police officers with live ammunition all over the room, and wondered if he had been betrayed?

If he was betrayed, it would indeed be a big problem. He looked around and gave up the idea of ​​running away.He somewhat regretted why he rushed into Saudi Arabia in the first place. The most important question now is, who betrayed him?KGB?Victor was the first to veto such an idea. Now Iraq and Libya are good opportunities to make money, and the top management will not do such stupid things.

Jealous of your peers?This is very possible. Victor helped the Soviet Union establish the largest underground arms empire. It is impossible not to be jealous of his peers.

During the process of being escorted from the hotel to the police car, Victor didn't say a word. He knew that the KGB guys were watching him secretly, and maybe they had already started to use various diplomatic means to carry out the rescue mission.

Under public circumstances in other countries, the KGB will not take the lead in using force to rescue.

"The rest of your life will be spent in prison, Mr. Victor. A scum like you will still be running back and forth between the court and the prison, if I guess correctly." The police escorting Victor Staring at Victor's face, quite proudly.Interpol spent three years looking for evidence, but did not expect to locate Victor's information through an anonymous report email.

"Then I'll tell you what's going to happen next, Mr. Police." Victor raised his legs, stared at the other person's face, and said with a smile, "When you arrive at your destination, you will find a A person with a much higher rank than you stands at the door. He will not encourage you to catch a wanted criminal. He may directly ask you to hand over the extradition to the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia who is standing next to him, and take out a bunch of bureaucrats to overwhelm you. Zhang’s documents to tell you the legality of what he did. Anyway, wouldn’t Interpol end up extraditing the prisoner back to the place of nationality for trial? Then it is reasonable for me to hand it over to the Soviet government.”

"What do you want to express?" asked the policeman in charge of the arrest.

"Nothing, I just want to say, you will never catch me." Victor sighed, he stretched the handcuffs in front of the policeman, and pouted at the policeman, "How about we make a bet? Wait The person who opens the door to greet you next time will not be congratulating your boss, but the leader with an embarrassing face."

Chapter 395 Unknown Hero

As Victor said, when they arrived at the police station, the senior inspectors of Interpol were already waiting for them at the gate, and the leader, Chief Bourne, was waiting for his subordinate Winterson with an embarrassed expression He arrived, and standing beside him was the indifferent Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Almost when Victor was dragged out of the car, Bourne of Interpol directly took out a stamped document from the Secretariat and threw it on Winterson's chest, trying to suppress his emotions in a low voice Said, "Winterson, you must let this man go."

"Why? We managed to catch him." Hearing the officer's answer, Winterson stopped doing it instantly, but when he looked down at the document, his face turned very pale. This is indeed Interpol The document officially signed by the organization does not contain any false elements.It seems that what Victor said in the car before is indeed true.

"Why did you let him go?" Byrne suddenly raised his voice. He glanced at Victor behind him. The other party was looking at him with a half-smile expression. He said to Winterson who didn't know the situation, "Let me tell you why. Within minutes of you capturing him, Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze called Interpol directly, and minutes later even Soviet Premier Pavlov called the Secretary-General directly, Said that we arrested the wrong person. What kind of person do you think the suspect who can alert the Soviet Foreign Minister and the Soviet Prime Minister is."

"Don't forget that Interpol has no right to intervene in the muddy waters between politics and the military. We have no right to participate in the political privacy between any member of the executive committee. Do you understand Winterson? Otherwise, why do you think this highest Signed papers from the enforcement agencies are issued within minutes of his being caught by you."

"But he obviously wants us to..." Winterson tried to argue in front of the chief, but was interrupted roughly by the latter.

"It's nothing but, it's all just a misunderstanding." The boss Bourne directly uncuffed Victor and replied apologetically, "I'm sorry for the unreasonable things my subordinates did to you. I hope Mr. Victor will forgive our mistake."

"Of course I don't care, and I hope he doesn't care." Victor took his briefcase and after confirming that the documents inside were not stolen, he left the police station with the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia present.

Before leaving, Victor waved goodbye to the smiling Bourne and the sullen Winterson, "Goodbye, oh no, I don't want a friendly Soviet citizen like me to be treated as an Interpol agent again." The murderer on the most wanted list."

After Victor left, the aggrieved Winterson turned around and questioned his boss Bourne, "He is a murderer! Why let him go? Is our statistical list fake?"

"It's not up to you to decide whether it's the murderer, Winterson." Looking at this young and promising subordinate, Byrne lit a cigarette and began to educate him slowly, "Do you really think that some Will there be some national leaders standing behind the guy who went to Interpol? From the series of actions of the Soviet Union, it can be seen that Victor’s profound background is beyond the imagination of us small characters, even the opposition leaders in Sierra Leone A friend of Victor's."

"Okay, let's stop here. I don't want to get involved anymore." Byrne threw away his cigarette butt, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "I will retire in a few years, and now I don't want to get involved in such a mess. Go inside."

Victor, who was taken away by the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia, got his things back. Fortunately, he has not missed the last flight to Tehran, and he will cross the Iranian border to Erbil.

"This incident is a warning from the CIA to you, Comrade Victor. Remember to protect your identity in other countries in the future. After all, the party cannot fish you out in time every time." Soviet Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Nilokov stared ahead, talking to Victor without squinting.

"The CIA also sent their agents to Erbil, but they didn't expect them to declare war on us so soon. But the PKK, which owed me a favor before, is now time to pay back." Byrne Said to the Soviet ambassador to Saudi Arabia next to him, "Then I want to know who is the agent sent by the CIA?"

"I heard it was a guy named Simeon. You have been in this business for so long, have you heard of him?"

Hearing Simeon's name, Victor narrowed his eyes. Old hatred and new hatred welled up in his heart at the same time. He lowered his head and took out a photo from his briefcase. It was shaking hands and chatting with the Minister of Defense. Simeon.

"At the arms defense exhibition in Europe before, Simeon once said that a low-level arms dealer like me is not worthy of talking to him. I wrote down this sentence, and hope to return it to him one day."

Nilokov nodded, and replied in a bureaucratic tone, "It seems that you have already had a quarrel, and I hope you can handle this matter well, so as not to disrupt the high-level deployment in Iraq. , and if that doesn't work, the GRU and the KGB will step in to help you."

Nilokov, who graduated from Moscow University, always looked down on these underground workers who took sideways, thinking that these people were just investors chasing capital, and they could not be called communist fighters at all.

Victor shook his head, "This is my war, and I don't need agents from the Intelligence Agency to intervene. But it was a mistake for the CIA to let this guy go to Iraq to sell arms. How could they think of letting someone who knows so many secrets They are appearing aboveboard in the turbulent Iraqi territory."

"What do you mean?" Nilokov turned his head and asked in surprise.

"If President Mario or the American people know that the CIA's top executives are selling weapons to their country's enemies, what will they think? At that time, it will not be as simple as taking the blame and resigning. The U.S. judiciary, The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security will be involved in the investigation. These people want to kill the CIA. Because of the Ames espionage case, the trust of the CIA at the top level has fallen to the bottom, and this will affect the credibility and image of the US government again. The Black Arms Sales Incident, I guess the only thing left for the CIA is to be reorganized."

This is indeed a very vicious plan. When the CIA is still cheering for its unexpected income, it does not know that their agents' private revenge has betrayed everyone.Once Simeon reveals the matter, all the senior officials of the CIA will be unable to bear it.And Nilokov next to him was a little unsteady. He didn't expect such a huge contest to be involved in a small misunderstanding.

When it comes to the struggle between the CIA and the KGB, this is no longer a level that I, an ambassador abroad, can get involved in.At this time, Nilokov chose to shut up, sometimes pretending not to hear anything in order to live longer.

And Victor continued, "In this way, not to mention in the short term, even in two or three years, the expansion of the KGB will be far greater than the contraction of the US intelligence front, and the Middle East will become our competition with the US. The main front. If Iraq is conquered, it means that the entire plan of the United States here will fail. The intelligence war and the arms war will become two important pawns that affect the political situation in Iraq."

For the first time, Nilokov realized how ridiculous his view of Victor was. He shook his head, mockingly rejected his previous ridiculous view, "I thought you were just a group of people who promoted the party and the country to obtain black income. It’s just intelligence personnel, a pawn in the hands of the KGB.”

The vehicle stopped in front of the airport hall, and Nilokov and a group of security personnel were notified that they could not leave until Victor was sent on the flight safely.Before getting out of the car, Victor turned around and said to Nilokov, "There is nothing wrong with saying that we are pawns, but our arms sales are the epitome of the underground contest between the United States and the Soviet Union, so Comrade Nilokov, now Do you still think that we are just a group of arms dealers who have nothing to do with the overall situation?"

When Victor got out of the car, he muttered softly, "We are just a group of unsung heroes who will never appear on the list of martyrs."