Chronicle of the Secret War and Diplomacy. 1938-1941

The legendary Soviet spy and saboteur Pavel Sudoplatov carried out various secret assignments for Stalin. From November 1938 to June 1942, he was one of the leaders of the domestic foreign intelligence. Because of this, he was privy to many details of the Soviet secret war and diplomacy. How did Stalin learn three weeks before the 'Munich Agreement' about the upcoming meeting of the leaders of France, Great Britain, Italy, and Germany, which effectively became the prologue to World War II? Who was the initiator of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact? What preceded the Soviet-Finnish War? What information was the Soviet intelligence reporting in the spring of 1941? With whom and under what conditions did Stalin plan to conduct separate negotiations in the fall of 1941? Answers to these and other questions are provided in this book by one of the most successful spies in the history of the USSR. . .