The memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, chief of foreign intelligence for the security service of the Third Reich, are a description of true events in which he took personal part or received first-hand information. The Sorge case, the conspiracy to assassinate Stalin, the history of Operation Cicero, the story of the personal lives of Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Heydrich, Operation Zeppelin, the Red Chapel and many other intriguing secrets of Nazi intelligence until the collapse of the Third Reich Schellenberg described without embellishment, without striving for self-justification, rather reliving the sensations of having power and self-worth. According to the general assessment of the British “spy hunters” who interrogated Schellenberg, he was a man with no concepts of honor, loyalty or propriety, a cold-blooded, always prudent realist who left nothing to chance.