Espionage is an illegal intelligence activity of bodies (their agents) of foreign states, which, as a rule, involves the theft of officially classified information (state secrets) by the special services of other states, a spy is engaged in covert collection of information about one of the conflicting parties in favor of the other side. Close in meaning to the word "scout", but differs from it in some features of use and a general negative connotation.
A spy is usually called someone who obtains information about the enemy either by various secret methods (peeping, eavesdropping, including using special technical means), or by infiltrating the enemy, that is, presenting himself as his supporter, or a combination of both of these ways. A spy can be called both a full-time employee of foreign intelligence, and a citizen of the state, recruited by foreign intelligence and transmitting to it secret information known to him through work, service or personal connections.

Bolshwing Otto Albrecht Alfred (October 15, 1909, March 7, 1982) officer of the Nazi secret service of the NSDAP of the external SD unit, was engaged in espionage and covert operations, until the end of the war in 1945 he was recruited by the American counterintelligence corps (CIC), later worked in the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) activated an old network of German recruits in Europe, then worked in California.

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Ruth Fischer (German Ruth Fischer, real name Elfrieda Eisler, German Elfriede Eisler; December 11, 1895, Leipzig - March 13, 1961, Paris)) is a German communist, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Germany, and then the Leninbund. According to documents declassified in 2010, Ruth Fisher was an agent of the American intelligence group "The Pond" for 8 years, an agent codenamed "Alice Miller.
In 1933, with Maslov, she fled through Prague to Paris. There, together with several comrades, they created the International Group (German: Gruppe Internationale), which collaborated with Trotsky. In 1941, they fled to Cuba, where they tried to get an American visa. Only Fischer was able to get it, and Maslov was forced to stay in Havana, where he died in an accident in November 1941.
In exile, she published articles in which she opposed Stalinism. Since 1944, Fisher has published a newsletter called "The Network". In 1945, on assignment from the University of Cambridge, she was engaged in research on the history of communism. The result of these studies was the publication in 1948 of the book Stalin and German Communism. In this work, Fischer analyzed the history of the KPD in the 1920s and 1930s. Since 1955 she again lived in Paris. In 1956, her books “From Lenin to Mao. Communism in the Bandung Era” and “The Transformation of Soviet Society. Chronicle of reforms. According to documents declassified in 2010, Ruth Fisher was an agent for the American intelligence group The Pond for 8 years.

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Robert Booker "Bob" Baer (born July 1, 1952) is a CIA officer who was primarily assigned to the Middle East Sector, fluent in Arabic, Persian, French, German, English, with some Russian, Tajik, and Baloch. languages, worked on assignment for the CIA in India, Lebanon, Sudan, France, Tajikistan, Morocco, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and now writes books on issues related to international relations, espionage and US foreign policy.

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Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko (October 30, 1927, Nikolaev, Ukrainian SSR - August 23, 2008, USA) - an employee of the Second Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, since 1962 a voluntary agent of the CIA.
February 4, 1964, while in Geneva, became a defector. The details of Nosenko's escape are still debatable. As a result of his betrayal, from 300 to 400 intelligence officers were recalled to the USSR. Intelligence historian Boris Volodarsky mentions that Nosenko was under arrest in the United States until 1969 on suspicion of being a double agent. From the early 1970s he worked as a consultant to the CIA.
Nosenko contacted the CIA in Geneva while accompanying a diplomatic mission in that city in 1962. Nosenko offered his services for a small amount of money, claiming that a prostitute took $900 worth of Swiss francs from him, also claimed that he was the deputy head of the seventh department The KGB, and subject to the leaking of some classified information that is known to him, offered to pay for his services, subsequently, until his death, Nosenko lived and worked in the United States under an assumed name.

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Nikolai Fyodorovich Artamonov or Nicholas George Shadrin (1922 - December 1975), Soviet naval intelligence officer of the KGB, served in Gdynia, Poland, subsequently transferred to the CIA in 1959, then he was transferred to the United States, the transition took place on the basis of love for a Polish woman Eve Gura.
Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (July 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008) CIA Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer and writer, engaged in recruitment, subversion and sabotage in democratically elected states and genuine social justice movements.

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Boris Yuzhin (born February 21, 1942) is a KGB mole, spying for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1970s and 1980s before being caught and imprisoned, and subsequently found in a Russian psychiatric hospital in 1992 . Boris Yuzhin currently lives in Santa Rosa in Northern California on a "modest American government stipend".

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Boris Morros (January 1, 1891 - January 8, 1963) was born in St. Petersburg, emigrated with his family to America in 1922, an American member of the Communist Party, was a double agent (USSR, and FBI), worked at Paramount Pictures, where he made films, and founded a music publishing house. Born in St. Petersburg, Morros emigrated with his family to America in 1922.

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Heinz Barwich (July 22, 1911 in Berlin - April 10, 1966 in Cologne) was a German nuclear physicist. He was Deputy Director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin. At the end of World War II, he followed Gustav Hertz's decision to defect to the Soviet Union and work for ten years on the Soviet atomic project, for which he received the Stalin Prize, subsequently defecting to the West in 1964.

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John Morrison Birch (May 28, 1918 – August 25, 1945) was an American military intelligence officer in China during World War II. Bereza was killed in a confrontation with Communist Chinese soldiers a few days after the end of the war. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.

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Miles Copeland Ax Jr. (July 16, 1916 – January 14, 1991) was an American CIA officer, musician, and businessman who was active in major foreign policy operations from the 1950s to the 1980s in the Middle East.

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Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American Central Intelligence Agency pilot who was shot down by a U-2 that violated Soviet airspace while on a CIA reconnaissance mission. Powers on June 15, 2012 was posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal.

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Milton Bearden CIA officer, Bearden lives in Austin, Texas, during his 30 year career Bearden CIA was a resident in Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan, Germany, and Afghanistan, he played a role in funding and training the Mujahideen to fight the Soviet authorities , after the collapse of the USSR was appointed head of the European branch of the Soviet East, now his own company is based on the development of resources and the provision of consulting services.

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Jack Pfeiffer (1905 - 1997) CIA officer, participated in the covert 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and oversaw Cuban exiles at an intelligence training base in preparation for the April 1961 invasion of Cuba, Operation Bay of Pigs.

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Alexander Dmitrievich Ogorodnik (1939 - June 22, 1977, Moscow) - Soviet diplomat, CIA agent codenamed Trianon (Trianon and Trigon).

In the 1970s, he was the second secretary of the USSR embassy in Bogotá. In Colombia, he was recruited by the CIA under the threat of publishing compromising photographs, in which he was depicted with an employee of Columbia University, Pilar Suarez (according to some information, also a CIA agent): pregnant by him. Their love meetings were recorded on film and shown to Ogorodnik during a recruiting conversation. For fear of breaking his career, he agreed to cooperate and became an agent of Trianon.

Ogorodnik's first espionage success while still in Bogota was copying for the CIA a top-secret Soviet document "On the State and Prospects of Soviet-Chinese Relations." Secretary of State Henry Kissinger described the CIA's findings as "the most important intelligence he ever read as head of the State Department."

In December 1974 he returned to Moscow, worked in the Americas Department of the Office for Planning Foreign Policy Activities of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For two and a half years he was an informant for the CIA station in Moscow. During this period, Ogorodnik did not have access to valuable, from the point of view of foreign intelligence, information, his position allowed him to get acquainted with documents of far from the highest degree of importance.

Revealed in 1977: counterintelligence witnessed several scenes of "cache operations" involving Ogorodnik and US Embassy staff in Victory Park. It is pointed out that during Ogorodnik’s business trip to Nakhodka in 1976, employees of the Primorye Department recorded active contacts between an employee of the Soviet Foreign Ministry and members of foreign delegations (primarily Americans) who arrived at a symposium on cooperation between the countries of the Pacific basin. According to Vyacheslav Kevorkov, a Soviet intelligence source in Colombia reported that American intelligence recruited a Soviet diplomat in Bogota, but all attempts to clarify the rank, position, or even age of this diplomat were unsuccessful. However, the KGB, taking into account a number of circumstances, began to suspect Ogorodnik and he was placed under surveillance.

Ogorodnik's fiancée suspected that he was an American agent and told him about it. He lied to her that he was a deeply conspiratorial Soviet intelligence officer, and then, fearing a denunciation, poisoned his bride with poison obtained from the Americans for suicide in case of exposure.
A secret search was carried out in Ogorodnik's apartment, during which they found, among other things, containers with photographic films, instructions and a radio.
On June 22, 1977, Ogorodnik was arrested at the entrance to his own apartment in house number 2/1 on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment. In the same place, when giving a written confession, he suddenly became ill. An ambulance was called, but it was not possible to save him. According to KGB Lieutenant General Vitaly Konstantinovich Boyarov (who led the operation), Ogorodnik committed suicide using a poison capsule hidden in a fountain pen. According to another version, Ogorodnik had a heart attack. Those present believed that he had taken poison hidden in a fountain pen. Arriving doctors began to save him from imaginary poisoning, and as a result, Ogorodnik died.

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Yosef Amit (1945) Former Israeli military intelligence officer who was convicted of spying in 1987 for the United States and European NATO countries.

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Arkady Nikolaevich Shevchenko (October 11, 1930 - February 28, 1998) - Soviet diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR, in 1973-1978, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs and Affairs of the UN Security Council. In 1978 he moved to the West. In 1975, he contacted and colluded with the CIA seeking political asylum, Arkady continued to hold his post at the UN and supplied them with inside information about Soviet political plans.
The first defector is a Soviet diplomat, the highest-ranking official who defected to the West during the Cold War. In the USSR, he was sentenced in absentia to capital punishment for treason.

Boris Gurnov
Decryption. Traitor Ogorodnik was going to marry the daughter of the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
http://www.rg.ru/printable/2013/09/05/razvedchiki.html

In "RG" we talked about Lieutenant General Vitaly Boyarov. At the age of 16, he became a front-line soldier. Then he served in intelligence and counterintelligence. He worked in London, then in Moscow. It was his people who exposed the traitor Ogorodnik, who nevertheless managed to commit suicide. "RG - Week" publishes the continuation of the conversation with General Boyarov.
Why, in your opinion, did Andropov not give a shoutout for Ogorodnik's suicide?

Vitaly Boyarov: I suppose that the reason is in the relationship between our then leaders. There, behind the assurances of unbreakable friendship, unity and complete coincidence of views, someone was always "friends" against someone. But secretly no sudden movements of one that could harm the other were allowed. The loud exposure of Ogorodnik and the open trial of him, as Andropov probably understood, could have hurt the member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gromyko and the secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Rusakov.

After all, who knows what, defending himself, Ogorodnik could say at the trial about the order in the economy of Andrei Andreyevich. So it wasn't necessary at all.

With Rusakov - even worse. His daughter, as it turned out, was not only close to Ogorodnik, but even going, having received the consent of her parents, to become his wife. That would be a scandal - an American spy in slippers drinks tea or something stronger in the evenings with the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU sitting next to him in a dressing gown.

Anticipating the near prospect of this, the CIA leaders were delighted. They urged Ogorodnik to get married as soon as possible, promising after that to sharply increase the salary of their so clever spy.

All this could come up in court. I do not rule out that Andropov did not want to raise such a wave, which threatened many people, and even himself personally, with unpredictable consequences. That is why, I think, Yuri Vladimirovich was even secretly glad that Ogorodnik had gone to the other world in time. And how happy Gromyko and Rusakov were, imbued with a sense of gratitude to the KGB chief, who saved them from big troubles!

One of my employees, who visited the Foreign Ministry in those days, told me that they were absolutely sure that Andropov's people, on his instructions, had carefully "removed" an extremely dangerous person.

Vitaly Boyarov: Absolutely right. And in the movie based on the novel by Yulian Semenov "TASS is authorized to declare" almost everything was exactly the same as in life. Except for a few details. And, of course, without any mention of the name of the daughter of the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. By the way, we were forbidden to interrogate this girl during the operation. In the novel and the movie next to Ogorodnik is just the girl Olya. Yulian Semyonov understood perfectly well what to talk about and what to avoid.

Among the people who adored the political detectives of Yulian Semyonov and watched him throwing around the world, there was an opinion that he was a career officer and mouthpiece of the KGB.

Vitaly Boyarov: To some extent, one could agree with the mouthpiece. The leadership of the KGB supported creative workers, in whose works a positive image of an honest Chekist arose. Just as in the Ministry of Internal Affairs they loved authors who glorified the exploits of police officers. But the fact that Julian was a full-time KGB officer is speculation. It's just that in addition to creative talent, he was very sociable, as they say now - "charismatic". He knew how to please and quickly gained confidence in people who easily forgave some of his posturing and adventurism. He was even glad that he was considered a "KGB officer". He asked me at one of the press conferences to say the following phrase: "On behalf of the state security agencies, I am authorized to officially declare that the writer Yulian Semyonov is our man." That press conference never took place. But when I went to Andropov with a proposal to give wide publicity to the details of the Trianon case, I had a ready answer to the chief's question: "Who could do this?" I called Semyonov.

And this despite the fact that, despite the resounding success of the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring", the reputation of Yulian Semenov was then somewhat damaged. After all, when state awards, honorary titles and orders were generously showered on the creators of the television series, for some reason he was awarded only a modest camera. Funny! After all, it was Semyonov who invented Stirlitz.

Vitaly Boyarov: I was also extremely surprised. The reasons for this injustice I do not know exactly. Perhaps the decision on awards was influenced by the conflict between Semyonov and director Lioznova, who clashed in a creative dispute about which of them is the author of one of the most powerful and emotional scenes of the television series - Stirlitz's silent meeting with his wife in the Elephant cafe.

Lioznova claimed that this episode was completely invented by her. Semyonov proved his authorship by referring to the memoirs of a military intelligence colonel. He allegedly told him about a similar meeting with his wife in Nazi-occupied France.

Probably, because of this dispute, Lioznova, who was then bathed in the glory of the creator of the film image of Stirlitz, was not allowed to shoot "TASS is authorized to declare."

Vitaly Boyarov in London: the real James Bond. Only from the USSR.

Vitaly Boyarov: Semyonov did not. Despite our persuasion in favor of Lioznova, he was dead against and insisted that Grigoriev, who made his police films, become the director. He has already started working. But in the first footage he shot there was so much from the police - with endless fights and chases - that I advised changing the director. Julian again rested, and he had a serious conflict already with us: "If there is no Grigoriev, there will be no me either," he said and left.

Then we invited Vladimir Fokin, who very successfully made a film with practically no script, based on our materials of the investigation file.

In which you were the main "director"?

Vitaly Boyarov: Well, yes, at times it was like directing. Just as during the arrest of Ogorodnik, I was next to the camera "Vizir", so during the arrest of the American pseudo-diplomat on the Luzhnetsky bridge near the communications cache, I led the operation on the scene. This time I was sitting in a construction trailer on Berezhkovskaya Embankment with a night vision tank sight and a direct telephone connection with employees preparing for the capture. Those to whom it was not possible to reach the phone were in radio contact with me. We knew that the Americans were listening to our radio frequencies, and therefore we could not have an open conversation. We agreed that when I see that the American is at the hiding place, I will broadcast only one word: "plus."

Everything worked, and the very next morning Andropov signed an order thanking all participants in the operation. Then he ordered documents on awarding us orders and medals to be prepared for him to sign.

Did you receive the Order of the Red Banner then?

Vitaly Boyarov: Yes. But not at once. Andropov fell ill, did not have time to sign the award papers and went to the hospital. And his first deputy Tsvigun, who remained on the farm, slowed down the sending of award documents to their destination. Declared that you can not reward people for an operation that began with a failure. Later, together with another deputy chairman of the KGB, Tsinev, he in every possible way hampered the release of the TV movie. Just as earlier, he delayed the publication of Semenov's novel for almost a year. He said that he would reveal many state secrets.

Why did they do it?

Vitaly Boyarov: Because of elementary envy. Although a certain competition between intelligence and counterintelligence has existed always and everywhere. But the successes of our counterintelligence in those years irritated our competitors and ill-wishers too much. And giving them wide publicity in the media was doubly annoying.

Isn't the aggravation of human relations the reason why, at the very peak of a brilliant career, you suddenly left the "organs" for a completely different field of activity?

Vitaly Boyarov: No. Although some tension, which, however, did not interfere with the work, really was. Kryuchkov, who was appointed head of the KGB, in addition to the traditionally biased attitude towards counterintelligence officers, felt, it seems to me, that professionals did not consider him worthy to occupy the chair in which Yuri Vladimirovich had previously sat. He did not have the state scope of Andropov.

Our sharp skirmish with Kryuchkov "on the carpet" could not pass without a trace with the chairman of the KGB, Chebrikov, who sternly asked how they could allow the KGB officer Gordievsky, recalled to Moscow from abroad on suspicion of treason, to escape. Everyone was silent. And I got up and said that the reason was the "mess" in the relations between the 1st and 2nd main departments of the KGB. Having taken Gordievsky to Moscow, the PGU, then led by Kryuchkov, in violation of the rules, did not transfer him "under guardianship" to counterintelligence, which did not even suspect that the traitor was freely walking around the city.

But at first I unconsciously prepared my departure from the KGB, and then I carried it out myself.

How can you prepare your own resignation yourself?

Vitaly Boyarov: There was no resignation. There was a natural desire to do a great state cause, to which my experience in counterintelligence led me.

“Piece by grain, collect and bring everything that concerns corruption,” Andropov once told me, “this problem will soon become paramount for us.” And we collected. Supervising on duty the department of economic security of the 2nd directorate, I discovered and reported to Andropov about outrages bordering on crime in the customs service of the USSR. It was part of the Ministry of Foreign Trade - the main carrier of goods across the border of our country. That is, she had to control the one to whom she was completely subordinate.

Andropov reacted instantly. He said: "Prepare a note to the Politburo on the withdrawal of customs from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and its transformation into an independent department."

We prepared, Andropov signed and sent the note "upstairs". But at that time, Patolichev, who was very close to the leaders of our country, was at the head of the MVT, and Brezhnev's son, Yuri, was his deputy. Naturally, they were categorically against it, and our note in the Politburo lay there without movement under the cloth for four years.

Only in 1986, after the state security officers pushed the customs officers to detain Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Sushkov himself with large contraband, they remembered our note, gave it a quick move. We made a decision to establish the Main Directorate of State Customs Control under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Then I got a call from the personnel department of the Central Committee of the CPSU and said: "We were ordered to urgently select a knowledgeable leader for this department. And where can I get him? If only you..." I thought a little and said: "I agree."

But a few days later I learned that a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the chief personnel officer of the party Ligachev "shifted" me from the head of the main department to the position of first deputy. I didn't mind. Then, nevertheless, he became the "chief customs officer" of the country in the rank of general, already a real state adviser to the customs service.

We will not bore you and the reader with a description of the details of your new service. Preparing for our meeting, I read the following about you in the book "Who's Who in the Modern World": "During his leadership, the customs service of the USSR acquired the main features corresponding to a new type of economy. An effective management system was created, new customs control technologies were developed, technical re-equipment was carried out, an adequate material and financial base was created, a new Customs Code of the USSR was adopted, the country joined the World Customs Organization ... "

Vitaly Boyarov: Thank you for your kind words. But about the Customs Code mentioned among my achievements, the creation of which we devoted a lot of effort to, I had to stumble.

In what way?

Vitaly Boyarov: In accordance with the new code, the governing body of our customs service was to be called not the Main Directorate of State Customs Control under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, of which I was the head, but the Customs Committee of the USSR.

The case of my reassignment seemed to be a pure formality, but still required an official decision of the country's leadership. The then prime minister, Valentin Pavlov, told me that the matter had been decided and that he had already presented me in writing to Gorbachev as the only possible candidate. A couple of days later, the prime minister embarrassedly showed me the answer he received: "Abstain from appointment." He said that to the question "why" Gorbachev answered him: "Kryuchkov objects." Like this!

How his career ended, we all know. Well, after a month and a half I was doing a new business. And this is a completely different almost twenty-year history, among the significant moments in which was the creation of the All-Russian Union of Customs Service Veterans and the Regional Public Organization "Vetkon" (counterintelligence veterans), which I headed until 2012

Candidate of Economic Sciences, athlete, erudite, etc. Here is how the personnel service of the Soviet Foreign Ministry characterized him:

"Over the years of work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he proved himself to be a disciplined, diligent worker, an educated specialist who enjoys the trust and respect of the team. He is politically literate, ideologically consistent, and morally stable."

At the same time, the "exemplary" diplomat actually had not two, but three "Achilles' heels": an immoderate craving for the weaker sex (he had a love affair with the wives of several fellow diplomats at the same time, one of these novels was publicized and destroyed the family of a famous diplomat) , dubious financial transactions (for example, he bought a foreign car at the beginning of a business trip, and then sold it to the USSR - the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs became aware of this, the "merchant" had to return his profit of $ 800 to the state) and unsatisfied ambitions.

The Americans knew about these and other sins of "Agronomist" (the nickname given to him by counterintelligence officers from the KGB). Pilar Suarez Barcala, an employee of the Colombian Cultural Institute and an American intelligence agent, was brought to him, and then they blackmailed him with photographs of their lovemaking. This is what Alexander Ogorodnik made in his diary shortly after he was recruited by the CIA

"I have the character of a fighter, strong will, honesty, devotion to the ideals of freedom, courage. Finally, outstanding professional training and a life rare in its richness with the most difficult events. I have never experienced as much as yesterday, because now I am a person who has long I decided for myself that I would not die decrepit in bed ... I suddenly began to be more afraid than necessary of danger.

Returning to his homeland, Alexander Ogorodnik began working as the second secretary in the American department of the Office for Foreign Policy Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UPVM).

This division concentrated the annual reports of the ambassadors, the final and analytical materials of the departments and departments of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs - in general, everything that was of interest to the US leadership. And Alexander Ogorodnik was going to marry the daughter of the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Konstantin Rusakov. According to one version, it was during this period that he came under the supervision of counterintelligence. The fact is that the KGB had information that one of the employees of the Soviet embassy in Colombia was recruited by American intelligence. In addition, during business trips to the USSR, Alexander Ogorodnik made several mistakes.

For example, he had contacts with members of foreign delegations that were not authorized by the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made notes in his notebook after meetings with senior officials of the republican level, and also carried with him several special West German-made self-defense equipment (such as a fountain pen).

He made the main mistake in Moscow, when he began to regularly visit Victory Park. During these trips, he always left the car in a conspicuous place, located on the traditional route of travel for American diplomats. At the Lubyanka, it was rightly suggested that the purpose of Ogorodnik's walks was to conduct sessions of impersonal communication. In other words, the laying and removal of the contents of the cache. Visual control was established over the apartment where "Agronomist" lived. The Chekists managed to record the fact that he had applied cryptography to a piece of paper, and also to find out the location of the hiding place. It contained instructions from the CIA to their agent. Alexander Ogorodnik was arrested on the evening of June 22, 1977. But then the opinions of the KGB veterans differ. Some argued that the traitor was a really valuable agent, the exposure of which was a magnificent success of the Second Headquarters (the head of the operation received the Order of the Red Banner), others, on the contrary, believe that the Americans helped to "eliminate" this person for three reasons: his connection with the family of a member of the Central Committee The CPSU (believing that the KGB regularly checks the environment of high-ranking party functionaries), the risk of failure is high, the information to which he had access in Moscow is of little value; it was necessary to divert the attention of the Soviet counterintelligence from more valuable sources, in the "skyscraper" on Smolenskaya Square (the location of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - Approx. ed.). Regardless of which of the points of view is correct, the operation to expose the Foreign Ministry official was called "Cayman", and the agent himself appeared under the nickname "Agronomist". The finale of this story is the arrest of Alexander Ogorodnik on the evening of June 22, 1977 at the door of his own apartment in the house 2/1 on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment in Moscow. Next is a textbook scene from the film "TASS is authorized to declare." Let's "look" at it again, but paying attention to the details that were not reflected in the television picture.

Let's start with the fact that for some reason the prosecutor's sanction for arrest was not presented. And the Chekists tried to comply with the Code of Criminal Procedure in those years. Moreover, they "took" not a simple dissident, but a person with connections in the Central Committee of the CPSU. This suggests that the decision to suppress espionage was taken unexpectedly, however, as well as the fact that the outcome of the counterintelligence visit was predetermined. Everyone who is familiar with this story perfectly remembers the textbook scene when, after lengthy statements about not being involved in the charges against him, Trianon agreed to put his confession on paper and, due to an oversight of the KGB officers, using his own Parker fountain pen, equipped with a special poisonous composition, committed suicide. life of suicide. Participants in the events testify that what was happening had only one witness, the investigator, who asked the rest of the members of the special group, which, by the way, included a general from the Seventh Directorate of the KGB, to leave the room. Was the cheerful Alexander Ogorodnik capable of such a step? Moreover, he still had a chance to live if he was included in the operational game to expose his overseas curators - otherwise why would it be necessary to subsequently look for a double for the "Agronomist" to organize the capture of CIA employee Martha Peterson red-handed?

There is a version that he was liquidated in order to maintain a stable position for Yuri Andropov as chairman of the KGB. The degree of participation of security officers in this procedure, let each reader determine for himself. There may be options ranging from a professional mistake (when the counterintelligence officers did not search the detainee) and ending with the forcible introduction of poison with an imitation of suicide. Another important thing is that everyone was interested in the death of "Agronomist" except ... the counterintelligence officers themselves. After all, they still had to play an "operational game" with the CIA, and it is much more difficult to implement it with a dead agent than with a live one. This was well understood by the head of the Second Main Directorate of the KGB, General Grigory Grigorenko, who carried out many similar events during the Great Patriotic War, when he served in the 3rd department of the Smersh Main Directorate of Counterintelligence.

If Alexander Ogorodnik had been alive, there would undoubtedly have been an "open" trial. And on it his connection with the daughter of the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU would have surfaced. The members of the Politburo, who were already cold towards the head of the KGB, would have an excellent opportunity to bring down their anger on him. This trial would also have a detrimental effect on Yuri Andropov's relationship with Andrei Gromyko. After all, this process would be a severe blow to the pride and reputation of the latter. The head of the Foreign Ministry has always maintained that he has no spies. And then it turns out that the official served in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cooperates with the CIA. In addition, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs focused the foreign policy of the USSR primarily on the United States. At any turn of events, he always had an unsinkable argument in reserve: "Should we needlessly annoy the Americans?" According to Vyacheslav Kevorkov, this is the kind of conversation that could take place between these state leaders: “Most likely, Andropov was the first to call. Naturally, he could not start right away with the death of a traitor:

"- Good morning, Andrey. Tell me, have you read the note from the International Department about the Liberation Army?"

Was reading. And to be honest, Yura was surprised at how the International Department puts the question. Naturally, these guys are waging a noble struggle for their liberation, but they use terror methods. I think we need to distance ourselves from them, in any case, no help with weapons.

There can be no talk of this.

Then we went over one or two routine topics. And at the very end of the conversation:

Yes, Andrei, do you remember I told you about your diplomat who worked for the Americans? - At this point, Andropov had to pause in order to raise the heat of the dialogue and let Gromyko worry about the unexpectedly raised unpleasant topic. Gromyko said nothing. So he remembers.

So, tonight, - continued Andropov slowly, - my guys came to arrest him. And what do you think ... - Gromyko did not think, but waited for what the denouement would follow. Finally Andropov, after another pause, took pity and continued:

And the spy out of fear took and accepted the capsule with poison sent to him by the Americans. Now Gromyko needed a pause so as not to give out joy and relief in his voice and come up with a worthy answer.

Well, Yura, the traitors have their own logic and, as always, their own inglorious end. They were silent again.

Naturally, it could not have been otherwise, - Gromyko readily confirmed. It was safe to say that both were satisfied with the outcome of the conversation, and most importantly, with the outcome of the case.

Chapter 8

On the morning of the next day, the corpse of Ogorodnik, who was at the Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine, where he was registered under the name Sidorov, was transferred, as directed from above, to the mortuary of the military hospital named after N.N. Burdenko of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. A post-mortem examination was urgently scheduled.

In the afternoon, by order of the leadership of the head office, Grechaev and I went there. I, who had already seen something during the war years and completed a course of forensic medicine at a law institute with a visit to a similar institution in Sverdlovsk, even at first did not feel particularly comfortable in the morgue. The condition of the former graduate of the Moscow Higher Technical School named after Bauman Volodya Grechaev was not the best, although he, of course, was brave. While the corpse was being taken out of the refrigeration chamber on a gurney, for practice I suggested that Grechaev look into the common room of the morgue. There were quite a lot of corpses on the tiled anatomical tables. One of them stood out with an absolutely yellow skin. Volodya passed this test too, although he turned a little pale. Finally the Gardener was brought in. We first saw him without clothes. Even dead, he gave the impression of a healthy and strongly built man, whom death caught quite unexpectedly. A southern tan was noticeable, although the skin had a somewhat cyanotic tint. On the chest and abdomen, as expected, evidence of an autopsy - a Hippocratic suture. On the left leg there is a somewhat worn, but readable ink inscription "Sidorov". The main thing for us was to make sure that in front of us was really Ogorodnik. They asked how long it can still be in the refrigerator? It turned out that due to some malfunction in the equipment and insufficiently low temperature - no more than two weeks. Of course, this did not please us: work on the case, despite the death of Ogorodnik, continued, and it was necessary, if possible, to have the necessary reserve of time.

The forensic medical examination carried out gave a rather lengthy and equally vague conclusion about the causes of death of A.D. Gardener:

“Given the fact that the death of the organism in this case occurred in the presence of not very pronounced histoenzymological changes (as is usually observed in case of poisoning), it should, apparently, be assumed that the lethal outcome occurred either as a result of the influence of a fast-acting highly toxic substance, or against an unfavorable somatic background that preceded the death of the organism ... Ogorodnik's dying clinic also does not fit into the framework of the clinical picture of poisoning by any of the known poisonous and poisonous substances.

The conclusion was signed by authoritative experts, but it was clear that the chemical composition of the poison could not be established. By the way, a little later, our press published a reprinted article from an American publication about the methods of work of the US CIA, which spoke of a wide arsenal of poisons used in their work, including curare and the poison of a little-known tropical shell.

At a meeting with the head of the central office, the results of the work done at Ogorodnik's apartment were summed up. In three hours, we managed to get a sufficient amount of materials exposing him in collaboration with the US CIA and treason. And most importantly, caches located in the room and the garage, carbon paper for applying cryptography, cipher tables, lipstick, which was marked in conditional places, and firearms were found.

By the morning of the next day, employees of the Special Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, who already had a cipher table, deciphered the methods and conditions of communication (attention was drawn to the thoroughness and accuracy of their preparation), the radio broadcast schedule, about thirty places for setting signals and hiding places for laying containers with spy materials.

It was confirmed that our radio counterintelligence service had correctly identified the communication channel from Frankfurt am Main since February 1975.

But there was still more and painstaking work to be done to prepare and carry out the red-handed capture of an American intelligence officer who was under cover of an employee of the US Embassy in Moscow, to find out what possible role each of his connections played in Ogorodnik’s criminal activities, and to resolve many, many other issues. , and above all this: how to hide his death from those who under no circumstances should have known about it.

Captain Grechaev and I got the most unseemly task - to conduct conversations with parents and close relatives.

A corresponding legend was developed, the essence of which was that on June 22 Ogorodnik was allegedly found dead in his apartment. The day before, he was visited by an unknown foreigner. Since he was a senior officer of one of the most important departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and a foreigner was involved in the case, the investigation will be conducted by the KGB of the USSR, which appeals to each of the relatives with a request to keep secret both the fact of his death and the actions of operatives. The Department of Internal Affairs of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Ogorodnik had left on an urgent business trip.

Ogorodnik's mother was the first to be informed of her son's death. There is no need to reproduce her reaction to this message.

HELL. Gardener. Bogota, on the eve of recruitment

He's on vacation

Pilar Suarez Barcala, Columbia Cultural Center employee and CIA agent

Decryption table handed over to Ogorodnik already in Moscow

Location diagrams of the cache for the exchange of information, made in the CIA station in Moscow

The decoded radiogram from the CIA

Message received from the residency about the state of Ogorodnik's bank account

Microfilm cassettes hidden in a battery

Gardener's personal weapon. Next to the gun is a fountain pen that fires live ammunition.

Chinese-made flashlight with a container in the form of a battery "Mars"

Microfilms removed from the container

The message that came to Trianon after the exposure

Ogorodnik's car and its perfect copy (including things by the rear window)

Doubles of Ogorodnik and his mistress Olga, dressed in their personal belongings

Location of objects and capture plan

Martha Peterson. Outwardly, a sweet and fragile girl was actually a regular CIA officer sent to Moscow specifically to communicate with Trianon

At the moment of detention, Marta Peterson inflicted serious injuries on one of the KGB officers. A walkie-talkie with an antenna is visible on Peterson's body.

The contents of the container intended for the Gardener: jewelry, money, microfilms, special packaging with poison

Martha in front of irrefutable evidence

US Consul in Moscow Mr. Gross in front of the container for Ogorodnik. The consul has a watch on both his right and left hands - probably, a recording device is hidden in one of them

Jack Downing alias Duncan. CIA officer who developed separate conditions for communication with Trianon

Personnel intelligence officers who visited the USSR under the guise of employees of the US State Department. Their task was to select a place for a cache operation.

The funeral of Ogorodnik at one of the cemeteries near Moscow

Since it was not clear what role the Americans assigned to telephone communication with Trianon in resolving operational issues, an agreement was reached with the mother on round-the-clock duty in her apartment on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya Street of KGB officers.

It was somewhat easier with my father. He was informed of the legendary circumstances of his son's death and expressed condolences to him. The father courageously listened to this message, after which he was instructed on the line of conduct. He said that now a lot of things became clear to him, but he did not specify what exactly. Given his condition, it was decided to return to this conversation later. Looking ahead, it should be noted that he did not want to explain what he said then, saying that he dropped these words just like that, without putting any sense into them. And God be his judge! It's hard to believe that the father knew something. But it could not help but seem strange to him at least the persistence that the eldest son Alexander showed so that the youngest changed his surname Ogorodnik to Kholmogorov, citing the fact that some distant relative on the maternal side bore this surname. Or the fact that, without any explanation, after a trip abroad, Alexander left his younger brother three thousand rubles for safekeeping, a very substantial amount at that time, and, perhaps, something else that we will never know.

The situation was more complicated with Ogorodnik's sister and her husband, a teacher at one of the military academies and the nephew of the Marshal of the USSR, with whom Udalov and Shitikov spoke. The sister's husband immediately bluntly expressed doubts about what was said to him and declared that he did not believe a single word. Nevertheless, they nevertheless managed to reach an agreement with him on keeping the message secret, and, in addition, he was left with an operational telephone number by which he could contact the officer at any time.

The attention of the task force working on the case was drawn to the unexpected arrival of a certain Chernyavskaya from France to Moscow, with whom Ogorodnik had maintained quite close relations in the past.

Chernyavskaya lived in Paris for a long time and allegedly taught at the Sorbonne. At that time, we did not yet know whether Trianon was operating alone or in a group with a liaison. After unsuccessful attempts to find Ogorodnik, she went on vacation to Kutaisi. During the preliminary study, it was established that she was closely acquainted with the already mentioned wife of the Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Tamara Mikhailovna Rusakova. To continue the measures to check it, the deputy head of the department, Colonel E.N., flew to the place of rest. Vinokurov. Our fears were not confirmed. The subsequent conversation with her did not give us anything interesting. However, Chernyavskaya was warned that she would not return to France without our consent. For safety net, through OVIR, she was temporarily closed from leaving the USSR. The implementation of the agreement with the leadership of OVIR was entrusted to me, which was done.

Subsequently, it was established that Chernyavskaya really had nothing to do with the criminal activities of Ogorodnik, and a little later she returned to Paris.

It was not easy with Nikolai Dymov, who was persistently looking for Ogorodnik.

On the one hand, it was understandable. On June 21, he handed over to Ogorodnik the materials of the Pacific Youth Congress, on which he was to draw up a conclusion as soon as possible. And suddenly - a surprise. The gardener, without even warning him even with a phone call, disappeared without a trace. He is neither at home nor at the Foreign Ministry, where Dymov was told that he was on a business trip. It was established by observation that Dymov did not use the home telephone, but each time he called from a pay phone. This was somewhat alarming, especially since he was Ogorodnik's closest connection. And yet, despite the certain threat that he represented, it was decided not to enter into any contact with him and limit himself only to observation.

Olga Fomina also created a certain problem for us, since she, one of the first to lose sight of Ogorodnik, began to show anxiety. After much deliberation, the leadership decided to establish operational contact with her and, for the duration of further events, take her out of Moscow to one of the boarding houses or rest houses of the KGB of the USSR.

This work was entrusted to me and Udalov's wife, Captain Elvira Udalova, an employee of one of the divisions of the head office.

Olga was almost shocked by the news of Ogorodnik's death. And it was quite understandable. She lived with her mother on a small income. After leaving school, she managed to get a job in a decent place, dress up a little. And then an acquaintance with a respectable diplomat, an offer to become his wife and the wedding day already scheduled for August 5 ... Rainbow dreams ... And suddenly everything collapsed.

Having come to her senses, in response to the questions posed, she reported some interesting information about the behavior of Trianon, showed places of stops during trips around the city by car, to which she did not attach serious importance in her time.

In the end, she agreed, together with Udalova, to go for a while to one of the KGB rest houses in the Moscow region. I visited her there a couple of times in order to provide moral support, and along the way, to resolve some issues related to the situation that had arisen. Later, this duty was assigned to Udalov, at his urgent request. Everyone knew that Udalov was pathologically jealous, and no one was surprised by this. And they even teased me a little.

Remember: "Trianon, Trianon, Trianon!" The film "TASS is authorized to declare ..." based on the novel of the same name by Yulian Semenov was released in 1987 and was a fantastic success. During the hours of its demonstration, the streets of the Land of Soviets from Brest to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky literally died out, and the level of offenses fell to almost zero. A film about Trianon is still shown at least once a year on one of the channels. Colonel Igor PERETRUKHIN, who arrested Trianon in real life, and was a consultant from the KGB, tells about how the film was created.

Igor Konstantinovich, did you yourself get on the screen?

Only in the credits - as a consultant. But in the novel I am present as Colonel Trukhin. During the film adaptation, for some reason I was "crossed" with another KGB officer and taken out under the common pseudonym Makarov.

And the rest of the characters in the film - how similar were they to the prototypes?

The most memorable "ours" - Slavin - was played very well by Yuri Solomin. In fact, his character is Major General Vyacheslav Kevorkov, head of the 7th department. At first, Nikolai Gubenko auditioned for this role, but he neither externally nor internally looked like Kevorkov. In addition, he wanted the beauty Pilar, who seduced Trianon, to be played by his wife Zhanna Bolotova. But she, as you know, is a blonde with Slavic features, and Pilar (actually Pilar Suarez Barcala) is, both in script and in life, a burning Spanish brunette. Many actresses were tried for this role, but all of them, as one lady from the artistic council said, "lacked bitchiness." In the end, they chose a fashion model Elvira Zubkova from the House of Models Vyacheslav Zaitsev, who came up in all respects.

Mikhail Gluzsky played the head of the Second Main Directorate, Grigory Grigorenko, who was in charge of the entire operation with Trianon. But Vyacheslav Tikhonov, in my subjective opinion, did not correspond to his character in terms of personality (in real life, Vitaly Boyarov, deputy head of the Second Main Directorate of the KGB). For nothing that Stirlitz.

How did you work with Yulian Semenov, the author of the novel "TASS is authorized to declare ..." and the script?

Yulian Semyonov was a unique person. In his apartment on Begovaya, which he called a studio, creative chaos always reigned. Manuscripts, spent cartridge cases, books, foreign coins, and even house slippers lay on the table. In the kitchen at any time of the day you could find food and drink for any company. Eat, drink as much as you like, just take my dishes.

He wrote the novel in 2 weeks. By the time the TV movie was filmed, something else was already spinning in his head. Therefore, he perceived the need for additional work on the script very painfully. They say that the director of the film sometimes locked Semyonov in his office so that he would add something to the script along the way.