On February 18, 1959, Colonel Peter Popov, the General Staff Intelligence Bureau of the Soviet Army ( Gruu ), was secretly arrested by KGB at home.
Popov was the first traitor in Gruu history. In 6 years, he sold a lot of confidential information to the CIA. The high level of information was so high that the senior Soviet army was stunned.
Popov, born in a peasant family, has a poor family, has a low education, and is rude. He has won awards for his bravery in combat. He was transferred to Gruu in 1947 and was sent to Austria in 1952 to work in intelligence.
Many people in Gruu believe that Popov lacks the sense of smell and judgment required by intelligence personnel, but he has a high opinion of himself and always looks at others in a fighting heroic manner.
In Vienna , he met the Austrian beauty Kohanek and was soon fascinated by her.
Although Popov is a country bumpkin, Kohanek does not dislike him and can listen to him telling battle stories for several hours in a row.
In fact, Kohanek is a fishing bait deliberately placed by the CIA. Soon, Popov was half-rejected and became a CIA spy, code-named "Elegant Gait".
The CIA attached great importance to him and established a special team code-named "SR-9" to specialize in this line.
Popov lived up to expectations and betrayed a large amount of confidential information from the Soviet army. The CIA has never treated him unfairly in the aspect of
money. Once, he even agreed to Popov's request and bought a cow cow for his brother! So much so that a joke circulated within the CIA: In the Soviet farm, there was a cow belonging to the United States!
Speaking of Popov's arrest, it is also ridiculous.
In 1958, Popov returned to the Gruu headquarters and served as the Director of General Affairs.
On December 23, a special chemical agent was found on the floor of the conference room of the Second General Administration of the KGB.
This is a special chemical that the KGB regularly sprays on the soles of Western diplomats through the embassy’s “maids” to track their joint lines and objects.
How did it hit the KGB's own floor?
checked, it was brought by Popov who came to the meeting.
The Second General Administration of the KGB immediately conducted 24-hour monitoring of Popov.
On January 4 and 21, 1959, Popov contacted Langeli, the html entourage member of the U.S. Embassy, twice, and received 15,000 rubles of activity funds.
htmlOn February 18, Popov was arrested.
After the interrogation, the KGB asked Popov to continue contacting Rangeli.
On September 16, Lanzeri, hidden in the dark, boarded a bus and prepared to connect with Popov.
On the bus, Popov kept rubbing his eyes, suggesting that he was being monitored.
But Lanzeli was not clear about it. When he handed over spy items such as secretly written potions to Popov, he was caught on the spot and was later deported.
In January 1960, in order to kill a warning, Popov was pulled to the Gruu building, and in front of his former colleagues, "splash gasoline like a beast..."
Even so, the senior Soviet army still had no regrets, and then sent all Popov's family to the labor camp.
Because Popov not only betrayed more than 80 Gruu spies lurking in the West, including the beautiful major Tailova and others, but more seriously, he even betrayed the report of the Soviet Union holding "snowflakes" and "breakthrough" exercises.
This is the secret in Su Jun secret.
"Snowflake" exercise
On September 14, 1954, at the Totsky nuclear test site in Orenburg Prefecture, the Soviet army held the first military exercise to use nuclear weapon in actual combat to test the combat capabilities and equipment performance of soldiers when the nuclear war broke out. A total of 212 troops participated in the
exercise, using 300 aircraft, 600 tanks, and 500 cannons. The camping site stretched for 42 kilometers, and the exercise preparations lasted for 3 months. Thousands of kilometers of trenches, trenches, and anti-tank trenches were dug, and hundreds of firepower points and underground shelters were built.The reason why the exercise location of
was selected for Totsky was because the terrain here is similar to Western European , with forests, grasslands and various animals, which is conducive to testing the real use scenarios of plutonium bomb . The
nuclear exercise has a gentle and romantic code name "Snowflake", but it is an authentic disaster and nightmare for all the participating officers and soldiers.
At 9:33 am, a plutonium bomb code-named "Tatyyanka" has a power of 40,000 tons, and exploded in the air 350 meters above the ground.
20 minutes later, 45,000 soldiers shouted and rushed into the heart. The pilot flew the fighter plane and passed through the smoke and dust that had just dissipated from mushroom cloud ... The total number of ammunition consumed on the day of the exercise was more than when the Soviet army attacked Berlin .
The soldiers looked around and saw their eyes full of burnt land, houses, crops, trees and animal corpses. Within 300 meters of their hearts, they turned into ashes.
During the two-day exercise, the soldiers did not take any effective protective measures.
After the exercise, due to confidentiality needs, all officers and soldiers and local residents did not undergo physical examinations.
All the people participating in the exercise signed the signatures by themselves, ensuring that military secrets will not be leaked within 25 years. After
, officers and soldiers suffering from various radiation diseases could not even tell the attending doctor about their radiation experience, and their medical records were also destroyed.
"Breakthrough" exercise
On September 10, 1956, another mysterious nuclear exercise called "Breakthrough" began at the Shemiparathinsk test site in the Soviet Union's Republic of Kazakhstan.
In the morning, a 38,000-ton equivalent plutonium bomb detonated in the air 270 meters above the ground. 43 minutes later, 272 officers and soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 345th Regiment of the 105th Airborne Division, wearing gas masks and protective suits, descended from the sky in 27 helicopters.
They passed through huge mushroom clouds and landed on the scorched land that smelled of death.
These fearless Soviet soldiers need to complete a difficult task: to occupy the gap in the enemy's defense line that the plutonium bomb exploded before the large forces arrived. The purpose of the
exercise is to summarize the lessons of the last "Snowflake" exercise, to figure out how long it takes to send combat troops to the scene after the plutonium bomb is released, and how far away it needs to be kept from the Explosion Heart.
The most important test is to test how long combatants can last for battle before they are exposed to enough deadly radiation. After the exercise ended, the exercise report signed by artillery Marshal Negelina wrote: "The lethality of the plutonium bomb in the exercise can effectively tear open the enemy's ground defense line. After 15 to 20 minutes of explosion, airborne troops can be put on 400 to 500 meters away from the explosion center."
This is the second and last practical military exercise of the Soviet Union using nuclear weapons. It has been strictly blocked as top-secret intelligence for a long time.
Unexpectedly, all these secrets were revealed to the Americans by Popov. No wonder the senior Soviet army leaders hated him to the core.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the US media released part of the two exercise reports, and the mystery of the Soviet nuclear exercise was officially unveiled.
Russian Labor Daily pointed out that by the time the 45,000 participating officers and soldiers of Totsky had only 2,000 survived when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, half of them were rated first-class and second-class disabled. More than 3,000 villagers and residents around
A total of more than 3,000 people died of radiation diseases.
In 1994, a monument was erected on the nuclear test site of Shemiparathinsk.
Every September 14th, people miss the officers and soldiers who passed away from nuclear radiation at test sites such as Totsky and Shemiparathinsk.
