About the book: 2010 / A unique book by a veteran of military counterintelligence. A detailed and honest story about what he saw and experienced, a rebuke to slanderers trying to denigrate Soviet history and demonize the legendary SMERSH, a refutation of anti-Soviet myths about the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence “Death to spies!” The whole truth about the work of military security officers during the Great Patriotic War - about the fight against enemy agents and traitors to the Motherland, scouts and saboteurs, defectors and “self-arrows”, desertion and alarmism, about “combing” the territory in the front-line zone and “behind-the-front work” (infiltration to German intelligence agencies and intelligence schools), about hunting for enemy reconnaissance groups and sophisticated radio games, forceful arrests and shootouts…