A quarter of a century ago, the former head of the Fifth Directorate (fighting the enemy’s ideological sabotage and protecting the constitutional system) of the KGB of the USSR, Filipp Bobkov, published the book “KGB and Power”, where he described in detail and frankly the complexity of the relationship between the KGB and the Central Committee of the CPSU, incl. . and political investigation. The reader first became acquainted with the peculiarities of the party leadership of the state security agencies during the “Andropov period.” This publication also includes the book by Eduard Makarevich “Philip Bobkov and the Fifth Directorate of the KGB: a trace in history.” Bobkov's activities are presented in the context of the political events of his time, the secret operations of the CIA and the ideas of Western intellectuals. The new collector's edition "KGB and Power" is illustrated with photographs from the personal archives of the authors, most of which are published for the first time. They allow you to take a fresh look at what the authors talked about.