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Yugoslavia straight into renewed exile. Shtemyenko followed him, again
reduced to the rank of lieutenant- general. (Some survive vicissitudes
better than others: under Brezhnev, Shtemyenko was again reinstated.)
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Now once more the post of chief of the GRU was held by a member of the
KGB, Ivan Serov. Henceforth everything would go according to Lenin's
teachings. Serov, on his appointment, automatically turned into an arch-
rival and enemy of the KGB, and was not in the least interested in the
fusion of these two organisations. But since he had been a general of the
KGB, the Army could not exploit him against the Party and the KGB. That was
not all. In order to control the Army in the interests of the Party, General
Golikov, the former chief of the GRU, was appointed chief of the Political
Directorate of the Soviet Army. Golikov was a former Tchekist and political
worker and he was ready to serve anybody who desired his services and to
report only the data which would please the leadership. Such a person was
eminently suitable as far as the Party was concerned.
Serov's successor as chief of the GRU was Colonel-General of the KGB,
Petr Ivashutin. General Yepishev, who had been from 1951 to 1953 Deputy
Minister of State Security, succeeded Golikov as chief of the Political
Directorate of the Soviet Army. In a word, the crocodile was again firmly on
the leash.

Chapter Three
The Pyramid
If we approach the term GRU in a formal way in order to explain
everything that is covered by those three letters, we shall get a very
impressive picture but one that is far from complete. To look at the GRU in
isolation from its subordinate organisations is to look at Gengis Khan
without his innumerable hordes.
The GRU may formally be described as an immensely powerful intelligence
organisation forming part of the general staff and acting in the interests
of the higher military command of the Soviet Union. On its strength there
are more than five thousand senior officers and generals who have specialist
academic qualifications in intelligence matters. The GRU has its illegal
representatives in every country of the world. In addition, officers of the
GRU operate under cover in every country of the world as diplomats, military
attaches, trade representatives and so on. Both the illegals and the
undercover officers independently from each other carry out the recruitment
of agents, who then, under the direction of the GRU steal top-secret
documents, axe governments and kill statesmen. The central apparatus of the
GRU processes espionage information coming from a thousand secret agents and
it also carries out cosmic, electronic, air and sea intelligence on a global
scale.
But we have not mentioned the most important point yet. Up to now we
are talking about Gengis Khan but not his hordes. What is more important is
that, in addition to all this, in addition to carrying out intelligence work
in the interests of the general staff, the GRU is also the superior
directing organ of the gigantic formation called Soviet military
intelligence.
Organisationally, the Soviet Army consists of sixteen military