Recruitment

Continuation of the book about service in one of the most powerful and closed intelligence services in the world—GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In this part, I’ll explain how, in practice, the premises for forming an operation plan are created; how the goals change, and how spontaneous, not planned in advance, risky—and not at all over-complicated—everything can be. I’ll tell how an operation plan matures, how agents are recruited for our military intelligence, and how sometimes nothing works out.

How strongly people’s sinful passions influence their fate.

This part of the book is about how methods of work in strategic illegal external military intelligence are acquired and refined: how experience is gained, how initiative develops, and what a creative approach in intelligence means. If you like reading about strategic intelligence operations with many participants in different corners of the world— with shooting, fights, and chases—then you’d better not buy my books. I’ll disappoint you badly.

Everything described is based on real events, but altered beyond recognition.