The USSR was a state of total deficit throughout the seventy years of its existence, but it never lacked one thing. In defectors. But the main threat to the Soviet Union still came not from them, obvious traitors, but from the so-called “moles”, internal spies - employees of the KGB and GRU, high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council of Ministers and the Central Committee of the CPSU, recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency as secret agents. agents. By selling our strategic secrets to the enemy, they were secretly preparing for a “soft landing” in the West. But they didn’t always succeed...