The first book from the two-volume “Special Services of the Third Reich” will tell you: - about the history of the creation of the Abwehr - the main intelligence service of Nazi Germany; - about the system of foreign intelligence agencies of the Abwehr, which acted against the USSR from abroad under the cover of foreign missions of Germany; - about the actions and a brief history of each (!) Abwehrkommando and Abwehrgruppe; - about the activities of sabotage schools and the work of Soviet counterintelligence officers in them; - about methods of recruiting agents, conducting reconnaissance and counterintelligence; - about the functions of intelligence departments of German formation headquarters.