Ovidy Aleksandrovich Gorchakov. Legendary Soviet intelligence officer, saboteur hero, translator of Stalin and Khrushchev, writer and screenwriter. The same military intelligence officer described by Yulian Semenov in the story “Major Whirlwind,” and his other hero Stirlitz borrowed some qualities from Gorchakov. “Only at the beginning of 1942 did I manage to enroll as a partisan along the Komsomol line. But the “partisans” turned out to be a top-secret intelligence unit of the Western Front, which was made famous by Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya,” recalls Ovid Gorchakov. That reconnaissance and sabotage school was led by Arthur Karlovich Sir Fire, aka Major Arturo in Spain and one of the heroes of Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” The autobiographical story “Aka Corporal Woodstock” is more a work of fiction than a documentary. The author was a member of a reconnaissance group operating in occupied Poland at the end of 1944, one of whose tasks was to collect information about the German secret missile program...