Аннотация

This is a story of the secret war waged in the USA thoughout the interwar and World War II periods by the Red Army General Staff Intelligence Directorate, OGPU/NKGB Foreign Department, People’s Commissariat of Navy’s Intelligence Directorate and the Comintern’s International Communications Division — the secret services better known as the GRU, KGB, GRU Naval and Comintern. The author shows how small-scale political and industrial information collection of 1920s gradually developed into regular intelligence activities of 1930s and then into all-out espionage of the wartime years. The article is based on a host of original intelligence documents found by the author in Russian and American archives, memoirs and works by Russian, American and British historians.