The book is devoted to the study of the project of American intelligence agencies to introduce into the mass consciousness the myth of the existence of certain secret protocols allegedly signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop on August 23, 1939, simultaneously with the conclusion of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact.The topic is considered author in a broad sense. Here is an overview of the pre-war foreign policy situation in Europe and the reasons for the conclusion of the Non-Aggression Pact and the stages of the introduction of falsified protocols into propaganda and scientific circulation. Based on the transcripts of the Nuremberg trials, the author explores the question of the primary sources of the myth of the secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop, conducts a textual and documentary analysis of the canonical version of the protocols and their variants that are in circulation.The general reader will be very interested to know who and why he began to introduce the myth of secret protocols in the USSR. And also by whom and for what purpose a humiliating confession for the country in collusion with Hitler was knocked out. The attempts of modern officials and historians to fabricate the "original" protocols, allegedly found in 1992 in the archive of the President of the Russian Federation, are exposed. The book also contains portraits of the main propagandists of this myth (Yakovlev, Wulfson, Bezymensky, Herwarth, Churchill).The author shows the connection between foreign intelligence services and modern processes in the Baltic States and Bessarabia.