The secret history of domestic foreign intelligence auth. A.I. Kolpakidi. Kolpakidi A.I.

In December 2020, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service celebrated its 100th anniversary. Over the whole century of its activity, many secrets have accumulated. Some of them in their articles will reveal the authors of the collection. So, many heard about the Cambridge Five - the core of the network of Soviet agents in the UK, recruited in the 1930s of the XX century at Cambridge University. For the first time it will be told about a similar network - the Oxford Group. Another exclusive story is a story about foreign intelligence operations in China in 1967-1982. And also - a detailed story about A. S. Panyushkin, an outstanding diplomat and intelligence officer and the first chief of counterintelligence of Germany Otto Iona, who, after four years of leadership, fled to the GDR, where he spoke in detail about his work to Soviet intelligence officers.