Special and secret services have always existed. The highest political circles could never do without strong and sophisticated specialists in their secret arts, who, while remaining invisible to the overwhelming majority, carried out their affairs, embodying the highest political and religious will. This publication contains unique historical facts presented in the genres of documentary journalism and detective stories, captivating with their dynamic plots. The people and events described in this book testify to the variety of little-known and completely unknown structures and internal mechanisms that control the development of civilization - at least in the last few thousand years. This book is a piece of memory about a bygone era, bygone states, people and events, thanks to which our fragile, unpredictable and unsafe world exists today.