Binary code Mystery number three - стр. 5

To get there with the group that was meeting there covertly, Rutra contacted Sergei, a GRU officer that Hent had recommended to him as an assistant; someone he had "worked" with on virtual reality operations. It was a real person from the OAM department. There was no time to investigate why Rutra didn't know that.

Rutra did not hold general meetings, as was the rule at Zero. He didn't have time to do it because of his schedule, and the lists were controlled by the records department, whose head, an old, battle-hardened general, Rutra trusted completely. He shuffled the deck so that the staff of one department did not know who was in the other.

According to the legend in this operation, Sergei was a radical oppositionist, a nationalist, so he very quickly introduced Rutra to "his own" as an ardent anti-Semite. According to the rules of the secret organization – no one in the subsequent chain of contacts should have known the real data of the new associate. He had to be introduced to his superiors by an active member of the brigade who had the right to recruit. This was done without the knowledge of the person being checked. After the new member was verified by his superiors, if he was approved as a member of the team, he was given a secret name, a legend of origin and activity. Rutra learned from Sergei that the "bosses" were interested in influential personalities, preferably connected with the special services or the military-industrial complex. Rutra was presented to them as an employee of the Foreign Intelligence Service, who, because of his patriotic and world outlook views, had fallen into disfavor with the command and was ready to support and help true patriots in saving the Motherland for the sake of liberating Russia from the "yoke of invaders". For this Rutre was invented a wonderful legend, which was not particularly different from the true one, as in post-Soviet Russia there were more than half of them. Namely – labor and political activity of his parents, associated with the Communist Party, the military past of his grandparents, and his Komsomol past. Since the past of the Zero employees was simply "erased" from history and another one was invented instead, Rutra was not afraid of being exposed: the past matched. According to legend – Rutra was given a secret name: Yuri Gagarin (or Cosmonaut).

After the third meeting with the "like-minded" Sergei set them a task: they needed to find out – who was secretly meeting behind their backs and where. Sergei's specialization was a bit off, as he was only doing this domestically to improve his skills for such events abroad, so Rutra started meeting with "his friends" without him. He soon found out that the "especially literate", as they put it, and financially able were going to another convention. Rutra asked to meet with them, to which he was told that he needed a recommendation from "someone close to him." When asked if Sergei's recommendation was not enough, he was explicitly told that it would be a good idea to back up this recommendation financially. Rutra agreed, with a counter-condition: to help him to play a play to borrow money at interest from a Jew with the Ukrainian surname Andreenko, whom they were to "screw". This was an excellent way of showing them a positive side.