About the book: 2010 / The specifics of the work of intelligence services and the habit of secrecy are incompatible with complete transparency - it is not surprising that SMERSH veterans are reluctant to give interviews and only in exceptional cases write memoirs : Their memoirs are a rarity. And this book is among the best. Occupying leadership positions in the GUKR NGO “Death to Spies!” during the Great Patriotic War, Dmitry Petrovich Tarasov personally participated in the best military counterintelligence operations that cleared our rear of German agents, and in unsurpassed “radio games” on strategic enemy misinformation. He spoke about all this - about the “finest hour” of the legendary SMERSH, about the heroes of the secret war and the victories that virtually paralyzed the activities of Hitler’s intelligence services - in his memoirs, supplemented by materials from closed archives.