Almost a quarter of a century ago, first in the West, and then in Russia, the book of the grandmaster of Stalinist political intelligence Pavel Sudoplatov "Intelligence and the Kremlin. Notes of an unwanted witness." This work immediately became a bestseller. Which is not surprising, because the author is the only one of the leaders of the independent centers of military and foreign policy intelligence of the Soviet Union of the Stalinist era who left detailed memories.