The Wolf and the Kremlin

Chapter 20: The Black Wolf

This little narrative has not yet fulfilled the promised inclusion of Area-51. There is another possibility for the black wolf (actually their are extensive possibilities for black Putin. In fact Putin fan-fiction in the right hands could like justify an entirely new Manga genera but I will confine myself to one more scenario and leave the rest to the Russians)

While it is obviously true that American military fantasy is fantasy, fantastic weapons have a way of inspiring military commanders. Hollywood only promotes a weapon system so many times before some general or anther decides that he wants it. Currently the US is working on everything advisable and inadvisable from rail guns to the space force with killer drones somewhere in-between. And one recurring theme probably dating back to the days of Darwin's theory of evolution is the supersolder . In fiction, genetically and physically enhanced warriors with near supernatural abilities. In real life genetic splicing for the purposes of enhancement is currently beyond know technology and biomechanical interface is far from even equivalent to the natural form. The only creditable experiment in genetic engineering of the perfect soldier is the more or less, presumably, accidental one conducted over the last ten thousand or so years by the Germans. They were in fact so successful in engineering warlords by the process of elevating the most successfully belligerent of men to associate with the descendants of those of kindred attainments that by the 15th century they managed to get a war going that lasted 30 something odd years and nearly lead to their extinction.

By the time the CIA was born presumably direct experiments in genetics, especially after the German model, had been banned. The CIA however as the dominate power in NATO could draw from the entire block candidates for its ops programs. It is even hypothetically possible that the CIA in their eagerness to corral more if not innocent but at least unsuspecting victims started drawing from the astronaut program. While the CIA only has limited ability to recruit field agents directly it is notorious for requisitioning men from other branches of the service. Technically a high elliptical orbit terminating in a meteoroid shower could drop into Siberia along with all the other meteoroids. Probably even during the cold war Russia did not monitor meteoroids that closely. Stealth tech existed in the 80's which probably means it started in at least the 70's. Naturally dropping agents in from outerspace would be less in vogue with the UN than the average SciFi writer. Of course it was the 80's and the entire Starwars program seemed to be a little challenged when it came to the principle of not militarizing space. Russian speaking naval officers who qualified for the astronaut program could have been rerouted through naval special operations school and with further training from the CIA prepared for operations against the Siberian arsenal. Effectively this would mean the Spartan Helljumpers were a real program. (Of course the training facility would be located in Area 51) This scenario is of course not only strenuously denied by the CIA but extremely improbable, like everything the CIA strenuously denies.

Technically, it is also extremely improbable that the CIA may have also constructed programs based on the ancient art of repositioning ranking assets in the target state to locations, like the afterlife, where they could no longer fulfill their previous functions. The CIA of course denies that it has, or has had any so called black ops programs since the last one was canceled in around the 1960's. And Hollywood has only made a new movie about the non-existent black ops programs featuring the CIA about twice a year since the 1960's.

If the CIA did come up with anything as momentous as the attempted collapse of the Soviet Union through the surgical removal of certain Soviet assets, they would no doubt have drawn on the entire base of Russian-speaking field agents. Obviously their most elite agents would not only be among the first to be selected for deployment but they might even have been given ranking positions. If the CIA did unleash their brave new weapon on the Soviet Union with devastating effect, at some point the coincidence between unfortunate accidents in the KGB and the explosive spread of protests would like have given senior Russian officials some cause for suspicion. So the scenario plays out something like this...

Russians get around to insinuating that if the CIA doesn't stop playing with their new weapon Russia is going to go ballistic, and if anything happens in Moscow that will be dead-hand kind of ballistic. The Russians also demand that balance be restored. The CIA wont give up its merry new allies but agrees not to add them to NATO. Balance is more of a problem, balance is when the US has a weapon and Russia has the SAME weapon, Gorbachev looked to be a man who liked balance. However in this case the weapon is not the blueprints for a machine, the weapon is the Son of a Bitch who has just finished dissecting most of the Soviet Union by means officially renounced by all civilized countries (not to mention the currently somewhat ignorant inhabitants of the American Congress). If the weapon is not turned over to the Russians not only will a gazillion flying things descend on American cities, Congress, currently naively celebrating the liberation , will have to be informed why, and how the hell they authorized the funds. Technically the CIA could have been forced to turn part of their officer corp over to the Russians and technically these might just have turned out to be the unfortunate white Russians who had finally managed their revenge on the Bolsheviks.

Gorbachev may have realized that if he outright asked for a hostage there would be misgivings. If however a ranking position in the Kremlin, the Holly Grail of the CIA ops in Russia, was dangled as bait; It is just possible that the CIA would have leapt at it. Furthermore just as long as the CIA thought they had scored they might not just have trussed up and delivered Gorbachev's favorite hostage they might also have been willing to pay handsomely for the privilege. Given how notoriously honest and generally incorruptible Russian public officials are, wads of American dollars shoved into right back pockets might have gone an extensive way to ease concerns about the new KGB Colonel. Just as long as all parties believed they were winning it was all Kumbaya and the CIA probably even had money left over to finance their President's popularity with the Russian economy. That was until Vladivostok started eating Silicon Valley and Bush decided he needed to keep the US from getting evicted from Germany.

In the end, the unfortunate CIA operative would have to be either assassinated by his own agency or abandoned to the KGB, which technically should have amounted to the same thing. If he was brought back to the States he would only talk and the media would have been all over the topic of why the operation was canceled; Iraq would never had looked worse.

Chapter 21: In the End

Ultimately the Wolf's real origins may or may not ever come to light. There are a few things that are certain or nearly so. Putin never really existed; he is the creation an elite operative from an unknown fraction and the old counter-intel division of the KGB. The original operative who assumed the role has been replaced by a look alike by other powers determined to control Russia. The objective of the new powers is the destruction of Russia. Whether the military has a somewhat justifiable reason for accepting the removal of the President or not the President has been illegally removed. It is relatively easy to find look-alikes, as any search for celebrity doubles will show, even without artificial augmentation. Body doubles have been common for centuries, Stalin's body double is particularly famous and frequently did speeches. With plastic surgery two men who already look alike can be made almost identical. Furthermore since the replacement of Vladimir Putin almost certainly started at least by the time he left the presidency in 2008, there have been years for the body double to be worked in gradually as the Real President receded. Given how much the Russians rely on Putin it is not surprising that factions in the Russian government determined on a puppet Putin as the means to power. However as much as the face and even the voice could be copied or mimicked a man's soul is not so easy. The new fake Putin has so little resemblance to the real Putin in character that it is hard to believe that the Russian's really fall for this. Where the real Putin pursed white Russian nationalism the fake pursues islamic ethnic-cleansing of Russians out of Russia under the name of Macron style multiculturalism . Where the real Putin refused to publicly transfer blame, either to the navy or to his predecessors, during the Kurask disaster even when both were blatantly at fault; the fake Putin is gibbering foul names at one of the most distinguished Russian military units because they had a problem with being bombed by their own airforce. Where the real Putin fought to end the rape of Syrian children by the islamic state the fake Putin names a terrorist any who oppose this same religion marching on jihad through ethnic Russian villages to do as islam dictates to Russian children. Who are these terrorists terrorizing, child rapists? As for getting in front of bullets, Russia's islamic allies have been doing everything in their power to shove Russia in front of American ICBMs with help from their own barrack hussein bin laden. When the muslim terrorist attacked Russia the real Putin hunted down the terrorists. When the muslim terrorists attack Russia the fake Putin goes on jihad after Ukrainian children demanding that the rules of engagement be changed while standing in union with the muslims to whom he opens the boarders. Where the fake putin toasts the slaughter of Russians on both sides of the Ukrainian war with the sodomizers of iran and the bloated CCP kim thing; the real Putin kept fighting against the war, even after the KGB tortured him till he was in so much pain that the western press was celebrating his brain tumor .