Sovetskie spetssluzhby i Krasnaia Armiia - Voitikov S.S.

For the first time, using a number of previously unknown documents, a comprehensive study was conducted into the formation and development of Soviet military intelligence and military counterintelligence during the Civil War; for the first time, the organization and activities of the first Soviet body of military intelligence, counterintelligence and censorship, the Narcotics Operations Division, were analyzed; History of the Intelligence and Military Control Courses, which became the first body to train intelligence officers in Russia; "The espionage case" of one of the founding fathers of the GRU, George Theodori. The pages of the book are considered: the birth of the Soviet secret services and the preparation of a new generation of their employees, the formation and development of the Soviet military intelligence and military counterintelligence. The focus is on the evolution of the organizational structure and personnel of the special services.