About the book: year / The idea of ​​the mailing list arose for two reasons. First, a friend called us at the Center for Intelligent Technologies who bought a book by the head of the Center, I. Poloneichik, “How to Learn and Pass Exams Easily.” It turned out that he was a former intelligence officer. He praised the book and noted that much of what is given in it was used in training at the special school from which he graduated. After this lyrical digression, he began to seek an answer to the topic “Who, in fact, allowed this to be published, and even in open form, and even with such a schoolboy title of the book?” There are no issues. 21,24.