Special services of the USSR in a covert war

Vladimir Efimovich Semi-Constantine, party and statesman, the chairman of the KGB in 1961-1967, was from among the “young reformers", who declared themselves during the“ thaw ”and shifted from the political Olympus in the era of“ stagnation ”. The first of the leaders of the KGB, who regularly met with valuable agents of Soviet foreign intelligence and the only one who in their memoirs spoke in detail about the work of non-allegresses. And also about how it was possible to avoid the transformation of the Caribbean crisis in the Third World War and what role Soviet foreign intelligence played in this.
Assessing the work of intelligence, opposing each other at the height of the Cold War, he not only compares their professional efficiency, but also asks deeper questions - whether spying is mental at all, and what the state and personality have to pay for penetration In other people"s secrets