The hand of Moscow. Notes of the head of foreign intelligence. Shebarshin L.V.

Lieutenant General Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin in 29 years of service went from the operative to the head of the Soviet foreign intelligence. He was an eyewitness to the destructive “perestroika.”

This book became the result of a long, thoughtful thought about the features of the profession of a scout in general and the Soviet in particular, about the essence of intelligence as such, not today and not yesterday. The book was written by the author all his life. Diaries, sketches from travel notebooks about Pakistan, India, Iran, Afghanistan found a place in it. A number of chapters talk about the interaction of Soviet intelligence with similar services of former fraternal countries: GDR, Bulgaria, Cuba. Truthfulness, genuine pain, is permeated by the story of the August coup, which changed the idea of ​​many values ​​in the author’s mind that was customary to worship since childhood.