Book by Lieutenant General of the NKVD P.A. Sudoplatov, one of the leaders of the intelligence and sabotage service, who, with the coming to power of N.S. Khrushchev was slandered as an unwanted witness and was erased from the history of the security agencies for many years, talks about previously unknown episodes and secret operations of Soviet intelligence officers during the Great Patriotic War, about counteraction to the German intelligence services, about nuclear espionage, about the difficult relations between intelligence and counterintelligence of former allies in the anti-Hitler war. coalition.