For the first time in Russian, sensational memoirs of a former Soviet intelligence officer, declared a “traitor to the Motherland” and sentenced in absentia by the KGB. Tehran. June 2, 1982. A young brilliant translator from Persian and his beautiful wife find themselves hostage to a real spy story in the style of James Bond films. Galina Kuzichkina is the wife of Soviet intelligence officer Vladimir Kuzichkin, declared in 1982 “a defector and traitor to the Motherland.” For more than 30 years she hid the fact that Vladimir was not killed in London by “sentence in absentia” by the KGB. Friends and colleagues believed Kuzichkin was dead. But Galina knew that this was not so...

Vladimir Kuzichkin step by step reveals the intricacies and secrets of the work of the most successful intelligence service in the world: - principles of employee selection; - methods of recruiting KGB agents; - organization of intelligence operations; - internal competition to the KGB.