During the summit, Reagan asked the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M.S. Gorbachev to pardon the CIA agent. Gorbachev answered him: “Mr. President, I will have to disappoint you. The person you are asking for mercy is already dead: the sentence has been carried out...” This conversation between the leaders of the two superpowers put an end to the fate of one of the most vile and vile traitors in the history of the domestic special services. How they managed to expose the seasoned spy is for the first time detailed and is told objectively in this book.