Today, after the actual beginning of the “new Cold War,” many are interested in the question: how is the work of our intelligence officers on enemy territory? Lieutenant General Vitaly Grigorievich Pavlov served in the KGB foreign intelligence service for fifty years. In his book, he talks about one of the most secret pages of the activities of this organization - about secret penetrations into foreign objects of interest to the USSR. From this book, the reader learns about the classic operations of Soviet intelligence: “Mohican”, “Hamlet”, “Fedora”, “Prelate”, “Olympus” and many others, as well as such specific methods of the KGB as setups, re-recruitment, etc.