Трагедии советской разведки

The history of foreign intelligence in persons, starting from the reign of Peter I and ending with the period of the Cold War. About a hundred names and destinies pass before the reader: confidants of Peter I - P. Tolstoy and A. Khilkov; World War I intelligence officer Colonel A. Redl; P.M. Makarov, known to everyone from the film “His Excellency’s Adjutant”; R. Mercader, who killed L. Trotsky; residents of the young Soviet Republic A.M. Orlov and D.A. Bystroletov; talented intelligence officers of the Great Patriotic War R. Sorge, Y. Golos, A. Kharnak and the post-war years - R. I. Abel, H. Felfe, the Cohen couple, K. Young, super agent K. Philby and the entire “Cambridge Five”, as well as many others. From the various, most often tragic, fates of intelligence officers, a holistic picture of the activities of the Russian special services throughout the history of their existence emerges.