Yuri Drozdov. Bondarenko A.Yu.

Major General Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov (1925-2017) went down in history primarily as the head of illegal intelligence-the legendary and mysterious administration “C” of the first main department of the KGB of the USSR. He came to this position “loudly”, under automatic machine guns and grenade ruptures, because the first operation, which he led, was to storm the presidential palace in the capital of Afghanistan Kabul on December 27, 1979. But why did the head of illegal intelligence lead the combat operation? And why did he delete his last name from the list of participants in the assault, presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union? The reader will find answers to these and a number of other questions in this book. In it, on the basis of the memoirs of the associates of Yuri Ivanovich, his himself and some declassified documents, it is described in detail about the intelligence officer’s interesting life: participation in the Great Patriotic War, forty -year service in intelligence, the leadership of the Office of “C”, the creation of the legendary “pennant”, and then an independent analytical Agency "Namakon".