Although the huge benefits made Morgan understand Shepard, it does not become a reason for Shepard to escape responsibility. After all, the CIA is a huge organization and is responsible for other departments. Therefore, they want the CIA to take care of Shepard for them. If you take this responsibility, simply paying money will definitely not be enough.
"So, what else do we need to do, a coup or an assassination?"
"Don't do that, do what you do best!"
"What's the meaning?"
"It means that you have to make a trip for me next! Or you can go and explain to the Intelligence Committee for me why Chad's boss changed people, causing our investment of 13 million to be wasted?"
"Well, actually it's not wasted. Habre's family made an unknown amount of thirteen million by plundering people's wealth. Now only a few of the family have run away, and the others have been chopped down by the Chadians. Brain, that money is of no use!"
"Are they still two different things? Young man, if you do something wrong, you have to pay a price. If it were my agent who was a daring guy like you, I would send him to Greenland to catch Soviet spies. There is no guarantee that he would be caught. The kind that comes back!"
Greenland is located at the junction of North America and Europe, connecting the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Because the entire island is severely cold all year round and has a typical polar climate, it has a small population and is not an important military stronghold. Naturally, there are no Soviet spies there, so go there. Catching Soviet spies over there means, in disguise, being exiled to Mobei or going to Siberia for labor camps. Going there means that your career has come to an end.
"So, what's the most important thing? Are the Soviets coming?"
"Almost, I want you to go to Saudi Arabia!"
"Saudi Arabia?"
"That's right, Saudi Arabia!"
When it comes to Saudi Arabia, Shepard's first impression is of those wealthy princes with a piece of cloth on their head. Compared with them, being born in Rome is nothing. After all, Romans may also be able to transform into mules and horses. But the wealthy prince, even if he is down and out, can still be extremely wealthy.
He brings twenty luxury cars and private jets with him when he goes out, has gold-plated elevator toilets, and keeps ligers as pets. It can be said that there are endless stereotypes about Saudi Arabia.
However, Shepard is not going to Saudi Arabia to serve the prince. Such good things are not yet his turn. He is just a contractor expert in the entire team. He is responsible for what he goes to, that is, eating, drinking, and drinking. Eat eat.
As for why this team is going to Saudi Arabia, this matter has to start with a small incident that happened in 1979. As for what it was, it was of course a nightmare place that the Soviet Big Brother will never forget in his life - Afghanistan. It’s a small thing!
Since the Khrushchev period in 1954, the Soviet Union has begun to provide strong support to Afghanistan. It not only helped Afghanistan develop agriculture, but also built a large amount of infrastructure. Then in 1973, the former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, Daou, known as the Red Prince, Germany also staged a successful coup that turned the country into a republic.
However, the subsequent reforms carried out by Daoud failed to help the country become prosperous and powerful. Instead, they offended all strata in the country because of their impracticality. From the traditional Afghan rural areas to the Afghan People's Party supported by the Soviet Union, they were all dissatisfied with him.
In 1978, the April Revolution broke out in Afghanistan. President Taraki of the pro-Soviet Afghan People's Democratic Party came to power and was prepared to unswervingly let Afghanistan continue on the path of socialism.
Although this path is correct, compared with his predecessor Daoud, Taraki, who serves as the Communist Party leader, appears to be quite radical. How radical is that? He plans to use five years to complete the work that the Soviet Union completed in 60 years.
During the Daoud period, various unrealistic radical policies led to the proliferation of domestic opposition, and Taraki also imitated Stalin's methods of conducting great purges, which led to the outbreak of a large-scale armed rebellion in Afghanistan. , it was difficult for Taraki to suppress the rebellion, so he could only ask the Soviet Union for help.
However, after taking into account Afghanistan's complex social environment and the influence of deep-rooted religious beliefs, the Soviet Union rejected the request to send troops and only provided a large amount of arms and food to the other side.
But what the Soviet Union did not expect was that
Not long after Taraki returned to Afghanistan, he was betrayed by his own government's second-in-command, Hafizullah Amin, who eliminated Taraki while he was still discussing with the Soviet Union how to eliminate himself.
Amin was not welcomed by the Soviet Union. Originally, the Soviet Union tried to unite with Taraki to defeat Amin first, but unexpectedly, Amin took the lead and killed Taraki.
The Soviets naturally refused to give up on this, because if Amin just carried out a coup, that would be fine. As long as it did not threaten the Soviet strategy, it would be okay to tolerate some disgusting things, but this guy still tried to resist the father of the Soviet big brother. It really annoyed the Soviets to prevent the Soviets from controlling Afghanistan's intelligence agencies and secret police and from controlling its military.
Because Afghanistan's geographical location is extremely important, it involves the Soviet Union's southward strategy. If Afghanistan is captured, the Soviet Union can continue to control Afghanistan, thereby controlling the Middle East and the Indian Ocean, threatening the oil-producing areas of the Middle East and encircling Europe, and interacting with its Pacific strategy. echo.
And then, Amin became even more bold and began to hook up with the Americans when there were Soviet troops stationed in the country. The Soviet Union could tolerate everything before, but it really couldn't bear such an obvious betrayal. Go down. Read the book
Subsequently, under the orders of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, General Akhromeev, a senior officer of the Soviet army, formulated several operational plans for the invasion of Afghanistan, and then Brezhnev, then Chairman of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, approved them According to the plan, the Soviet Union sent 100,000 troops to overthrow Amin and re-establish a stable pro-Soviet government in Afghanistan.
Subsequently, on December 27, 1979, the Soviet Union deployed Task Force 154, composed of elite special forces, to drive T62 tanks and Shilka self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and easily blasted away the Dalaruman Palace where Amin was located. After killing Amin, the Soviet armored group that had been waiting at the border for a long time entered Afghanistan, and a tragic war that no one expected broke out!
After the war broke out, opposition from various countries swept in like a wave. Many Arab countries that also belong to the same cultural circle spontaneously began to donate money and materials to support the Afghans in fighting the invaders. Naturally, this included the wealthy Oil Saudi Arabia.
The most active aid to Afghanistan is of course the United States, the eternal rival of the Soviet Union.
