Soviet foreign intelligence. 1920 - 1945

When in December 1920 a division of foreign intelligence (a foreign department) was created in the structure of the Cheka, then we had to organize intelligence work from scratch. Despite this, by the beginning of World War II, Soviet foreign intelligence was one of the most powerful in the world and could compete on equal terms with recognized leaders of that time - British and Germanic.
For the first time, for the first time in detail and reliably, most of the operations of Soviet foreign intelligence from the moment it was created before the beginning of the Cold War. Biographies of managers, personnel employees and valuable agents. The structure of the central apparatus and residences abroad