About the book: 2018 / In the 1950s, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Costa Rica to Italy, the Vatican and Yugoslavia was the Soviet illegal intelligence officer Joseph Grigulevich. In Mexico, under the leadership of the legendary Pavel Sudoplatov, he participated in organizing the assassination attempt on Trotsky. Over twenty years of work, he managed to become a citizen of ten states and worked under thirteen names, recruiting more than 200 agents around the world. And after his resignation, he became a Doctor of Historical Sciences and wrote one of the best biographies of Che Guevara. “Grigulevich,” KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov said about him, “is the pinnacle of Soviet intelligence, which only those who are marked and chosen by God can achieve.” The book is based on a professional Counterintelligence, journalist and writer Vladimir Chikov included Grigulevich’s dossier from the SVR archive, memories of this phenomenal man’s associates and personal meetings with him.