Chronicle of the Secret War and Diplomacy. 1938-1941

The legendary Soviet intelligence officer and saboteur Pavel Sudoplatov carried out various secret instructions of Stalin. From November 1938 to June 1942, he was one of the leaders of Russian foreign intelligence. Thanks to this, he was dedicated to many details of the Soviet secret war and diplomacy. How did Stalin find out the upcoming meeting of the leaders of France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany, which actually became the prologue of World War II? Who was the initiator of the Soviet-German Pact about non-aggression? What preceded the Soviet-Finnish war? What did Soviet intelligence reported in the spring of 1941? With whom and under what conditions did Stalin plan to conduct separate negotiations in the fall of 1941? The answers to these and other questions in this book are given by one of the most successful scouts in the history of the USSR.