Only one profession - espionage - can argue with journalism for the title of the second oldest. These two classes are drawn to each other and are often successfully combined, which has many textbook examples - from Richard Sorge to Jan Fleming and Kim Philby. This book deals with the not so well-known or hitherto unknown, but no less exciting interweaving of journalism and espionage. It is based on recently declassified documents of the American and British special services - the CIA, MI5 and MI6, Soviet intelligence reports that were intercepted and decoded by the Americans as part of the Venona project in 1943-1980, the so-called Vasiliev Notebooks - notes made in the archives of the KGB and then exported to the West, and other unique sources. Essays by Alexei Kazakov are documentary, exclusive, full of information.