"KGB", a noun that once scared the Western world. Its full name is the Soviet National Security Council, and there is also a name that is familiar to everyone, KGB .
, one of the four major intelligence agencies in the world, was reorganized and disappeared with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, in the 1950s and 1990s, it was a super intelligence organization with more than 500,000 staff and 250,000 overseas spies, and its surveillance network covers the world.
KGB's strength and influence are recognized as strong, but at the beginning of its establishment, they also planned a failed spy case. With careful layout and strong investment, they were actually opposed by the other side.
Why did this female spy who had been lurking for 13 years fail miserably? Looking back on this thrilling spy history, it is as shocking as the plot of the movie.
Angela Linate, a very outstanding fancy skydiver in the 1950s, was born in an ordinary family, but with her talent and unremitting efforts, she successfully entered the national team of the former Soviet Union. As an athlete, her strength is unquestionable. She has won the championship in the World Championships many times and is known as the "Skydiving Queen."
She has a beautiful appearance, a slim figure, and a far-reaching reputation. She was surrounded by countless people at that time and was a new star in the sports world. In 1954, Linate once again went to Rome, Italy to participate in the World Championships and once again won the championship in the fancy skydiving event. This can be said to be her golden peak.
But just a few days after the game, the sports star suddenly went straight to the local government department, demanding to meet the other leader, and said something surprising.
Linate said that she met a man who was also a fancy skydiver during many competitions, George Phoenix, and George is an Italian. They are deeply in love with him. Linate is determined to get together with George, and she likes Italy very much, so she is preparing to transfer to Italian nationality after marrying George.
But after the Soviet Union learned about this, it was considered a treason. Linat was very worried about his personal safety and feared that he would be persecuted, so he applied for political refuge from the Italian government.
In the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union at that time, many people on both sides were either bribed or fled to the other side's camp for refuge.
Although most of these are scientific researchers, Italy, as a solid ally of the United States, attaches great importance to Linate, a very influential public figure. If it can be successfully accepted, it will be a blow to the Soviet Union.
Of course, because of Linate's identity, the Italian government also conducted a detailed investigation into the incident. From Linate's identity, background, experience, to her connections and relationship issues with George, all aspects were verified clearly. So it was soon officially announced that it would agree to Linate's request for refuge and accept her as a legal Italian citizen.
In the following time, both the Soviet Union and Italy made statements. The Soviet Union seemed very shocked and angry about this incident. They expressed their efforts to arrest the treasonable woman and return to China.
, while Italy directly hired Linate as a lifelong athlete and coach of the Rome skydiving club, and treated them with excellent treatment in all aspects, and publicly promoted it. Obviously, the better Linate, the more painful it will be to hit the Soviets.
In fact, Linat was a Soviet spy, and not an ordinary spy. She was sent to Italy and was responsible for the construction of the entire European spy network. As early as the motherland, Linat was already one of the small leaders of the KGB, and had the title of "female tsar" within and had a rich resume.
Linate had already used his feminine charm to approach and capture the famous Italian skydiver George Phoenix, and then co-starred with the Soviet Union, and was finally accepted by Italy.
Linate holds a list of personnel provided by the KGB. This has been carefully screened out for a long time and is considered to be highly likely to win over by the Italian government, military and all sectors of society.
, and Linate also had a large amount of funds provided by the Soviet Union, so after Rome gained a foothold, she began to use money from all directions to constantly buy insiders, quickly weaving a big net like a female spider.
Not long after, she officially married George. Obviously, Linate's husband is certainly not an ordinary person. Because of his excellent abilities, he often goes to NATO and some air bases in Italy to guide skydiving skills.
George is completely irresistible to Linate's charm. He is simply obedient to his beautiful wife. He was soon instigated by Linate and became an accomplice.
So in the following time, George took advantage of his position to steal confidential information.
You should know that during the parachuting process, the person is at a high altitude and has a very wide field of view. You can see the very complete terrain structure below, which is simply the best environment to grab base information.
So under the guidance of his wife, George loaded a very small micro camera in his safety helmet. When passing through any secret base during parachuting, he would take many photos. When he was talking to officers and politicians, George would carry a thin recording device on his body to ensure that all conversations were recorded without falling.
Because of his outstanding contribution, George later received a round of professional training from the Soviet Union, which was almost a training for him as another country's intelligence officer.
On the other hand, Linate has already secretly gradually built a huge intelligence network covering almost Europe, centered on Rome, and many other KGB agents are also scattered in various countries and regions such as Greece , Morocco , Cyprus , Spain, etc. They are collecting secret information of local governments through their own methods, and then delivering them to Linate, and then sending them to the Soviet Union.
The methods of these people conveying intelligence are shocking. With the technological level of the Soviet Union leading the world at that time, they either hid information in extremely small containers, wrote in invisible ink, posted folded tiny paper behind stamps, or conveyed with high-frequency telegrams. In short, they were numerous and very secretive.
Because Linate has provided a large amount of important information for a long time, the Soviet Union has never let her return to China, so she has been lurking for many years, and naturally it will not be smooth sailing among them. She has encountered two major crises in total.
A crisis came from her husband. At that time, George was accidentally noticed by Italian intelligence personnel when he met a Soviet officer. They immediately launched a round of strict investigation and surveillance against George. However, Linate learned of the news through an informant lurking within the Italian government, so he instructed George to interrupt all activities and keep a low profile.
After all, the Italian security department was just skeptical before. Under the strict surveillance of George for several months, they failed to find any conclusive evidence and quickly stopped.
Another crisis was because in 1956, a business counselor in the Soviet embassy in Austria was instigated to defect. After his successful escape, he explained some of the confidential information he explained included some of the KGB arrangements. He warned the Italian government that they had been strictly infiltrated by the KGB.
The Italian government attached great importance to this situation and soon ordered the security department to secretly review all people close to the Soviet Union, and George and Linate were naturally among them.
However, Lina has a high status, and the KGB quickly notified the situation, and she once again became dormant like hibernation, avoiding this investigation without any danger.
After being hidden for a long time, Linate came out of the darkness again, continued to deepen the European intelligence network, and sent countless extremely important intelligence to the Soviet government, including the aerial photos of the Apennine Peninsula military base, one of the most important fortresses of NATO at that time, were successfully sent by Linate and her husband.
Originally under Linate's precise layout, although she might not be able to return to China safely, she would not be exposed at least in a short period of time. However, in 1967, a major change occurred.
Stalin was the supreme leader of the Soviet Soviet government before and was also a famous leader in Soviet history , but behind his talent and martial arts was a very bleak family life.
His wife Caterina committed suicide. Among the three children, the eldest son was abandoned by him and died in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany.
The second son never received the care of his father since he was a child. Later, because of his mother's spirit of death, he became corrupt and even wrote to Mao Zedong to make government remarks. Therefore, he was exiled by Stalin and finally died of alcoholism.
And the youngest daughter is Svetlana, who is the most beloved child of Stalin, but the latter's arrogant and full-time job made Svetlana very scared, especially when she fell in love with a middle-aged writer when she was sixteen, but her father directly imprisoned her lover in prison for espionage.
At the same time, Svetlana has been under the surveillance of the KGB for a long time, which was also imposed on her by her father on the grounds of care. Although her situation improved a lot after Stalin's death in 1953, after the misfortune of her marriage, Svetlana completely lost her nostalgia for her motherland.
So in 1967, after a long time of planning, she left the country on the grounds of sending her deceased husband back to India and began her own defection journey. The Soviet Union was shocked. If the trip was successful, the losses caused would be immeasurable.
On Svetlana's route, one of the stops is Rome, and she will stay here for a day. Originally, Linat could not plan a large-scale raid, but now that happened, her superiors ordered her to stop Svetlana, whether it was kidnapping or assassination.
Under the emergency order, Linat immediately contacted the group members to hold a meeting. After strict planning, they finally planned to plan a fake car accident halfway and rob Svetlana of the chaos. The plan was properly arranged, but on the next night, a group of Italian secret police officers directly surrounded the Linate house and broke into the door and arrested the couple. With the conclusive evidence of the crime, Linate had no way to deny it. After Svetlana was successfully arrested, she discovered that its agent had fallen. However, Linate had already left the Soviet nationality, and they had no way to save people. They could only prepare to bomb an Italian military base marked in the previous intelligence by venting their anger.
But when the fighter arrived, I found that the base was full of model buildings, and it was already empty at this time, which was an obvious scam.
At this time, Linat, who was already in prison, didn't even know that his long-time trusted husband George was actually an Italian double-faced spy. As early as after the two got married, he was secretly instructed by his own security department.
So later, Italy threw out a series of true and false information, allowing George to quickly gain the trust of the Soviets, so that he could access all the transmitted information and take everything into his hands.
The reason why Linate has not been arrested for a long time is that this can maximize her value and even steal some Soviet intelligence from her. When Svetlana defected, both sides showed all their trump cards, and Italy directly removed Linate and the complex intelligence network behind it.
By this time, Linate's lurking had lasted for more than thirteen years. After hearing the truth, she became desperate and knew in her heart that everything was irreversible. Before more torture, she directly broke off a button on the collar - this was the special prison uniform given to her by the KGB secret line entering the prison, where the buttons contained highly toxic cyanide.
Just like that, the "skydiving queen" and "KGB female tsar" died tragically in a secret prison in Italy. For an agent, perhaps the ending was so cruel. Only one foul-year plan left.
