Agent with a Teddy Bear is a book that reveals the dual biography of Viktor Petrov (V. Domontovich): archaeologist, author of intellectual novels, and, at the same time, agent of the Soviet secret services. Based on declassified archival files of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Foreign Intelligence Service, the author traces how agent Ivanov collaborated with the authorities, what his activities were during the Great Terror and World War II, in post-war emigration, an...
Documents of the Soviet state security agencies, declassified in Ukraine, have become a real Klondike for researchers and journalists. Month after month, year after year, stories found by Eduard Andryushchenko in archival files were turned into articles for Ukrainian and foreign publications. And now they are published under one cover. The heroes of these stories were outstanding artists and cynical killers, agents and Chekists, fugitives and spies. Someone signs absurd confe...
