The tragic death of the last head of Soviet foreign intelligence, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, has become an insoluble mystery for many. There must be a lot behind the suicide of an intelligence director of this level. Valery Povolyaev is making an attempt to lift the veil of secrecy and answer the question: who was General Shebarshin? Leonid Shebarshin left many secrets outside the scope of his memoirs. The classification of secrecy will be lifted from them only after many years (if it is removed at all). But we managed to find out something already now. This is what the book you hold in your hands is dedicated to.