In this part, in artistic form, using specific examples, I will show under the influence of what circumstances approaches to organizing illegal work (in particular recruitment) began to change in strategic military intelligence. How the defeat of our country in the global Cold War and the end of the ideological confrontation affected both sides of the front. You will be able to feel for yourself the state of strategic military intelligence several years before the start of the famous endless military reform. In order to independently assess in the future the necessity and radicalism of “optimization”, “reorganization”, etc. But this is not the main thing. I continue to pursue the goal of showing, albeit in artistic form, that our strategic intelligence service consists of the most ordinary people, with enormous shortcomings, vices and virtues. In addition, I wanted to emphasize that in intelligence, as in our entire army, in those years they carefully treated everything that was good in the army and intelligence of the Soviet period. We valued this greatly.