GRU legends. Chlobustov O.M.

This book talks about people who played a significant role in the history of Russian military intelligence. The first of them is P.I. Ivashutin was the head of the Smersh military counterintelligence department of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, Minister of State Security of the Ukrainian USSR, deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR, and finally, the head of the Main Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the USSR. The circumstances of his service show readers the confrontation of Soviet intelligence with the German and American special services, Ukrainian nationalists and other opponents of the USSR. The book also tells about the fate of scouts-GRU Colonel Georgy Nikitovich Bolshakov and resident of the KGB of the USSR in Washington, Hero of the Russian Federation (1996) Alexander Semenovich Feklisov, against the background of American-Soviet relations of the 1950s and 1960s. Particular attention is paid to the reasons and the prerequisites for the occurrence of the Caribbean crisis and the role of Soviet intelligence in its resolution.