The author of this book, Oleg Maksimovich Khlobustov, is a "hereditary security officer," the largest specialist in the history of the Russian special services, who has published more than 300 different works on this topic. In his new book, O.M. Khlobustov answers a question that occupies many readers - how could it happen that the USSR State Security Committee, which rightfully belonged to the strongest special services in the world, could allow the collapse of the Soviet Union? Who, in particular, "took out" the KGB at the most dramatic moment in our history, in August 1991?..