During the years of opposition of the peoples of the earth to Hitler’s claims to unlimited domination, the main front of the war took place on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. Foreign intelligence of the Soviet state security actively contributed to repelling fascist aggression in all multifaceted sectors of the secret war. And this war began for her long before its official announcement. Many years of deepening into the history of intelligence during the war period prompted the author to search for an unconventional approach to assessing her work. This is not a “intelligence and war” view, but with an emphasis on “war and intelligence.” And therefore, the military component of this dyad is widely represented in the manuscript.A. B. Maksimov is a veteran of the navy, intelligence, honorary state security officer, member of the Writers' Union of Russia. The book is published in the author's edition. Information production mark 12+