Joseph Gigulevich. Nikandrov N.

an outstanding Soviet intelligence officer, a native of a modest Lithuanian Karaite family, he selflessly defended the republic in Spain; participated in the elimination of Trotsky; He was our resident in South America during the Second World War, the organizer of sabotage to disrupt the supply of strategic goods to fascist Germany; He created a unique reconnaissance network that produced valuable information about the operations of Abwehr and Gestapo on the continent, “illuminated” the backstage activities of Western allies. For the first time, the book tells in detail about the associates of the resident for illegal work, their further fate. After the war (remaining an employee of illegal intelligence!) - Ambassador of Costa Rica to Italy and Yugoslavia, his own man in the Vatican. Having left the intelligence service, he became a major historian scientist, a leading specialist in the problems of Latin America and the Catholic Church, the author of many books and articles, including the first biography of Che Guevara in Russian. The contribution of the scout to the successes of our state is still difficult to appreciate, and the first attempt to do this is the book proposed to the reader written on a large array of previously unknown materials.