Soviet intelligence colonel (CDMP3)

Alexey Alexandrovich Rostovtsev is a retired colonel who served in Soviet intelligence for a quarter of a century, of which sixteen years old - abroad, writer, author of many books and publications, member of the Russian Writers Union.
... counterintelligence and intelligence gave me an inexhaustible material for my literary exercises for the rest of my life. In my stories - the cruel truth of the operational work, which must be done with clean hands. For considerations of conspiracy, I replaced the nicknames of agents, the installation data of the defendants, and shifted the temporary and spatial framework of events. Everything else is true ...
Alexander Rostovtsev, colonel of Soviet intelligence