About the book: 2017 / Walter Germanovich Krivitsky - under this name he was known in the lists of personnel of the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army Headquarters. His real name was Samuel Ginzburg. He was one of the Intelligence Directorate's leading experts on Western European countries, taught at the Higher School of Intelligence Training, holding a position corresponding to the rank of brigade commander of the Red Army, and from 1933 to 1934 he was director of the Institute of Military Industry. Stalin's tyranny and some foreign policy actions of the Soviet leadership, the thought of a possible arrest caused great concern for Krivitsky. However, he did not immediately decide to take the extreme step of becoming a defector..