The novel by Julian Semyonov “TASS Is Authorized to Declare” is written on a documentary basis, with a boldly twisted plot involving dizzying operations by our counterintelligence agents and the disgracefully lost game of CIA agents.
Soviet intelligence operatives face a difficult and dangerous task — urgently identify a CIA agent living in Moscow and working in an institution where all information about the “African hub” is received. The quick success of this task determines not only the fates of individual people, but also the fate of an entire state — the African country of Nagoria…