About the book: 1981 / From the preface: Offered to the attention of Soviet readers is the book "Special Purpose Intelligence", written by the English author Patrick Beasley and published in London in 1977, complements the rather wide and well-known list in the USSR of books published in the West and partially translated into Russian relating to the history of the Second World War, and in particular the war at sea. […] The specific aspect that distinguishes P. Beasley’s book from many other American and English books published and translated in the West is that the author covers... a little-known area of ​​one of the most important types of support for the preparation and conduct of combat operations of various scales - intelligence support.