What did the Fifth Directorate of the KGB and its regional units really do? Who, where and how listened to American presidents and for what employees of electronic intelligence posts of the Sixteenth Directorate of the KGB of the USSR were awarded military orders? How did domestic scientific and technical intelligence help create new types of Soviet military equipment? What did the employees of the 'F' line do in foreign residencies? For whom did they lay weapons and radio stations in caches and caches in Western Europe? What should have happened in the event of a "special period"? This and much more is described in a new book by the famous historian A. Sever, written on the basis of previously secret documentation of the KGB of the USSR.