The collection of materials was compiled by a former CIA officer Philip Agee, known to the Soviet reader from the book "Behind the Scenes of the CIA," published in Russian translation in 1979, and the American journalist Lewis Wolfe. The authors of the materials of the collection, who are public figures and journalists of the United States and many countries of Western Europe, expose the subversive activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, acquaint readers with the methods and methods of its work. The book is of interest to a wide range of Soviet readers.