Chapter 709 The Three of Us (Page 12)

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, although it does not know the whole picture but can understand most of the joints, the EU's response is somewhat slow.

The main reason is that 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 had long realized that these European allies were extremely unreliable. The intelligence briefing to them was basically equivalent to sending it to Lubyanka Square at the same time.

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

Under such circumstances, most European countries actually rely heavily on their foreign media to obtain information from the front line.

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

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

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

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

Moreover, technical personnel from the General Administration of Foreign Security assured that the satellite was in normal working order and that there were no problems with their contact with intelligence personnel in other parts of the world.

Sansong was still a little worried:

"Now if we contact each other like this, will it..."

This further confirmed Sanson’s suspicion——

Under tremendous pressure to shirk responsibility, 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.

Now, even covering the lid is a luxury.

Disconnected.

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

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

In this way, there seems to be only one possibility left...

Who can I turn to to seek justice?

Currently only the US military is using it.

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 Intelligence Committee was also unable to contact frontline personnel.

"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 the answer when faced with questioning, the situation will be in trouble..."

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

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

It's not the signal that's wrong, it's the people or the equipment that's wrong.

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

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

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

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

This is actually understandable——

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

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

Crosetto seized every opportunity and continued to be weird:

Crosetto was one of the important supporters of this view.

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

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

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

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

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

……

"A third-party country? What about, for example?"

In fact, from the perspective of Rudler, who knew the Russians better, this matter did not seem to be the work of the Federal Security Service.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, we have often lost people like this in the past half century. We don't care if it happens again or twice..."

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

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

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

Because the intelligence agents of these two countries also disguised themselves as media, they stayed in the same hotel as the French television staff.

Then, the broadcast signal suddenly stopped.

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

"And more importantly, we have no leverage."

Originally, the opinions within the EU on the Balkans were not unified. A considerable number of people believed that a strategy of maximum pressure should be adopted in order to maximize interests.

Three GBU31.

then……

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.

An abnormal situation like this tonight is obviously a signal that the US military is performing a special mission.

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

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

If they were really attacked by the other party's security agency, basically they wouldn't be able to escape.

And he still does it without any discernment.

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

Originally, everyone was already ready to cooperate.

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