Main opponent. The secret history of the last years of the confrontation between the CIA and the KGB

According to the reviews of many experts and the press, this is one of the most detailed and “close to the truth” of the last time in the history of intelligence. Its authors are a personnel intelligence officer, in the last years of his career the head of the Soviet/Eastern European department of the CIA, and a famous journalist, illuminating the problems of national security in New York Times.
The book contains the exciting chronicle of the "Spy Batalya" between the CIA and the KGB with an emphasis on 1985-1986. The reader learns about the CIA agents from among the employees of Soviet intelligence services and defense enterprises, about the KGB agents in the US intelligence services and about those issued by those secrets. In this regard, the story with the “underrever” - Colonel of the KGB Yurchenko and, on the other hand, the actions of the Mole in the CIA Oldrich Eims, are touched upon. The role of the CIA is shown in the implementation of secret operations to assist Afghan rebels. The story of the historical duel of the CIA and the KGB is completed by chapters dedicated to changes in their relations during the collapse of the USSR and the entire socialist system.
For a wide range of readers.
2nd edition, corrected