This book is a story about one of the most effective intelligence officers of the GRU of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, Viktor Andreevich Lyubimov. During the Cold War, he obtained the secret of solid fuel for Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles; recruited an agent who worked at the communications center of the Supreme Commander of NATO Armed Forces in Europe, and successfully used the recruited colonel from NATO headquarters. The author reveals the secrets of the work of residents in foreign countries, describes the skill of V.A. Lyubimov and undercover work in the USA, France, the Netherlands and the GDR. How were the meetings with agents at football stadiums? How were 1093 targets identified on the territory of the USSR and Warsaw Pact countries that were subject to destruction with nuclear weapons? How was the copying of top-secret documents from NATO headquarters organized? Which GRU leader was called Canaris? Read the answers to these questions on the pages of the book. Having begun his military service in the Navy in 1943, V.A. Lyubimov has come a long way from the commander of the turret of the cruiser "Molotov" of the Black Sea Fleet to the captain of the 1st rank, the head of the 1st direction of the GRU of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, honestly serving the Motherland.