The author of this book, Ram Krasilnikov, headed the English and then American departments of the Second Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR - Soviet counterintelligence for more than 20 years. It was these departments that fought the intelligence and subversive activities of Great Britain and the United States against the USSR. In his book, R. Krasilnikov shows how the US CIA "participated" in Gorbachev's "perestroika." Already at the first stage of its implementation, the CIA developed plans according to which "perestroika" should be used to completely eliminate the USSR. During the implementation of these plans, the CIA used both "classic" intelligence operations and ideological sabotage, including in the highest echelons of Soviet power. The book is based on documents from the KGB and FSB and materials from the author's personal archive.