"Without the right to fame, for the glory of the state"
The motto of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
The fate of an illegal scout is always special. It is one thing when a person works at an embassy, trade or cultural representation legally, and he has both diplomatic immunity and the passport of his native country. And a completely different thing is when you have to hide under someone else's mask, transform into a representative of a different culture and language, relying only on your own strengths and abilities. Illegal Soviet intelligence officers of the Cold War era will forever go down in the history of our country as true heroes and patriots. And a well-deserved place among them belongs to the Filonenko spouses.
Anna Fedorovna Kamaeva, who later, having adopted her husband's surname, became Filonenko, was born on November 28, 1918 in a large peasant family living in the village of Tatishchevo near Moscow. Her childhood was marked by work in the garden, participation in hayfields, get-togethers with friends and pioneer bonfires. Like millions of her peers, she attended seven-year school. And after graduation, the girl entered the local factory school to learn the craft of a weaver.
In 1935, sixteen-year-old Anya got a job at the capital's factory "Red Rose", which was engaged in the production of silk fabrics. Successively going through the stages of apprentice and weaver, she became a shift operator of the workshop. At that time, the names of the participants in the Stakhanov movement thundered across the country, including the famous weavers Evdokia and Maria Vinogradov. Soon, Anna Kamaeva became a leader in production, she was entrusted with the maintenance of more than a dozen machine tools. The staff of the Krasnaya Roza factory made a decision to nominate Anna Fedorovna to a managerial position, namely, a candidate for the Supreme Soviet. However, the election committee rejected her candidacy, since Kamaeva was not yet eighteen years old.
For three years Anna Fedorovna worked at the factory. The turning point in the girl's life occurred in the fall of 1938, when, on a Komsomol ticket, she was sent to the state security organs of the USSR. Kamaeva got into foreign intelligence, or rather, to the Foreign Department of the NKVD of the USSR. It should be noted that during the massive repressions of the thirties, our foreign intelligence has suffered greatly. By 1938, approximately half of its personnel were repressed: dozens of workers in the peripheral and central offices of the INO were shot or arrested. The result was a strong weakening of the department - in some residencies there were only one or two operatives left, many residencies were closed. In 1938, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) examined the issue of improving the activities of the Foreign Department of the NKVD. In order to quickly revive the former power of foreign intelligence, a number of decisions were made to expand and strengthen its states. Taking into account the acute shortage of qualified personnel, a Special Purpose School (or SHON for short) was created under the NKVD to accelerate the training of new intelligence personnel. Anna Kamaeva and in October 1938 became a student of the SHON.
The training schedule for future scouts was extremely tense: the girl mastered the radio business, practiced shooting from various types of light weapons, studied Polish, Spanish, and Finnish. In 1939, after graduating from the Special Purpose School, the young graduate was enrolled in the central office of foreign intelligence. Her first assignment was to conduct operational affairs of illegal intelligence officers working in Europe. But Kamaeva did not work on this site for long - the war began …
From the very beginning of hostilities, Anna Fedorovna was included in the top-secret structure - the Group of Special Assignments, directly subordinate to Lavrentiy Beria. At various times, the Special Group of the NKVD was led by Sergei Shpigelglas, Naum Eitingon, Yakov Serebryansky, and twelve illegal residencies were created abroad to carry out special assignments of the state security agencies and the country's top leadership. In particular, this "intelligence in intelligence" in 1940 under the command of Eitingon successfully carried out an operation to eliminate Leon Trotsky.
In the fall of 1941, the situation at the front became critical. In November, Guderian's tank units approached Moscow, a state of siege was introduced in the capital, and government agencies were evacuated to Kuibyshev. However, the Soviet people were not going to surrender at all. The leadership of the USSR ordered to prepare a sabotage underground in order to continue the struggle, even in a city captured by the enemy.
In case of the capture of Moscow by Hitler's troops, the Chekists carefully developed many sabotage plans. The NKVD proceeded from the premise that the leaders of the Third Reich, headed by Hitler, before realizing their threat ("to raze the capital of the USSR to the ground"), would certainly take part in the planned celebrations. Workers of the Special Assignments Group were ordered to "wage war on their own land." Anna Kamaeva was at the very center of operational preparations. Yakov Serebryansky was involved in the combat training of the Chekists. Under the conditions of the strictest secrecy, sabotage groups were formed. Many intelligence officers and counterintelligence officers went over to an illegal position in Moscow. The forces of state security officers mined little-known underground tunnels and adits in the central part of the city. Mines were planted both under the Bolshoi Theater and in the Kremlin - places where Nazi bosses could well have arranged festivities to mark the fall of Moscow. One press of a button would be enough to turn these metropolitan landmarks into heaps of rubble in a couple of seconds.
Anna Fedorovna, on the personal order of Lavrenty Beria, was prepared for a key role - to make an attempt on the Fuhrer himself. Various methods of completing the assignment were practiced, but all of them unambiguously showed that the scout had no chance of surviving. These plans remained on paper. The troops of the Western Front under the leadership of Zhukov managed to withstand the onslaught of the Wehrmacht, stop and then push the Nazis hundreds of kilometers away from Moscow.
In July 1941, under the People's Commissar of the NKGB, a Special Group was formed, created to lead and control the reconnaissance and sabotage groups of the NKGB operating behind enemy lines. It included cadres of foreign intelligence, and the deputy chief of foreign intelligence, General Pavel Sudoplatov, was appointed head. In October 1941, the Special Group was transformed into the second department of the NKVD, and, finally, at the beginning of 1942, into the famous fourth department.
To carry out operations in the German rear, the special forces formed by the Sudoplatov group in the fall of 1941 were combined into a separate motorized rifle brigade for special purposes (or, for short, OMSBON) in the amount of two regiments. The brigade was commanded by a foreign intelligence officer, Colonel Vyacheslav Gridnev. The location of the brigade was the Central Dynamo Stadium, located in the old Petrovsky Park. In addition to the Chekists, the brigade included over eight hundred athletes, including many famous masters of sports, coaches, champions, world record holders, Europe and the USSR, in particular the Soviet Union champion in boxing Nikolai Korolev, titled athletes Znamensky brothers, football players of the Minsk Dynamo. The number of the brigade reached ten and a half thousand people. In Mytishchi, special-purpose operational detachments were created to study tactics of action in small groups, night reconnaissance techniques, mine work, topography, radio affairs, and also studied the enemy's subversive equipment and made parachute jumps and multi-kilometer marches. Already in December 1941, the task forces of Flegontov, Medvedev, Kumachenko, Zuenko and … Filonenko went to the rear of the enemy.
Little is known about the youth of Mikhail Ivanovich Filonenko. It is known that he played chess perfectly and possessed a mathematical mindset. The future scout was born on October 10, 1917 in the city of Belovodsk, now located on the territory of the Luhansk region of Ukraine. After graduating from the seven-year school, in 1931, at the age of fourteen, he got a job as a miner. Then in 1934 he left this craft and until 1938 he was a cadet of the Tushino aviation school. Since 1938, Mikhail Ivanovich worked as a technical inspector at the capital's plant No. 22 (now the Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Center), and in 1941 he got into the state security organs.
In 1942, Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Filonenko was put in charge of the reconnaissance and sabotage group "Moscow", which had the task of raiding the Moscow region. The circle of interests of the detachment on the headquarters maps was outlined by the settlements of Rogachevo, Aprelevka, Akhmatovo, Petrishchevo, Dorokhovo, Borodino, Kryukovo, Vereya. The raid lasted forty-four days, during which Mikhail Ivanovich kept an operational diary, describing in detail the combat work of his subordinates. This work, fortunately, has been preserved in the archives of the intelligence service. It is worth citing the most curious moments from the notes of the group commander: “December 3, 1941 is the first day. Temperature -30, blizzard. I built a detachment in the morning - fifty people. Half of them never saw the fascists. He reminded that the raid is dangerous and difficult, there is a chance to refuse. Nobody went out of order. Tried to dissuade an eighteen-year-old nurse. I got the answer: "You won't have to blush for me." … Late in the evening, passed the battle formations of the Rotmistrov division, crossed the front line and disappeared into the snowy forests …
December 4 is the second day. Overcast, blizzard. Found a German convoy. The Nazis did not even have time to raise their weapons. Fourteen fascists were killed, four of them were officers. There are no losses among ours. … We spent the night in the forest. The approaches to the parking lot were mined. They raked the snow to the ground, laid down coniferous branches, laid a raincoat-tent. Ten people went to bed, hugging each other, covered with a raincoat, and then again with branches and snow. The attendants woke people up every hour and forced them to roll over on the other side so that they would not freeze …
December 6 is the fourth day. … The railway and the bridge were mined. At 23 o'clock the bridge was blown up together with the enemy train. About a hundred fascists died, 21 guns, 10 tanks, three tanks with gasoline fell into the river.
December 9 is the seventh day. A group of scouts went to the village of Afanasyevo. They brought two "languages", they said that there were about three platoons of Germans in the village, tanks and reinforcements were expected. … The detachment was divided into five groups. Three of them, ten men each, attacked the village simultaneously from three sides. The garrison was completely destroyed, the fascists were killed - 52. The villagers asked to join the detachment. He could not take them, but they advised how to create a partisan detachment.
January 3 - day thirty-two. Snowfall, wind. People are extremely tired, the cold overload is terrible.
January 5 - thirty-fourth day. Heavy blizzard. We learned that an SS regiment approached Vereya for a more effective fight against the partisans. Von Bock (commander of the Army Group Center) summoned a punitive battalion of White Finns from near Leningrad.
January 12 - forty-first day. Snow, blizzard. We went into the forest after the sabotage. We mined the approaches to the camp, sat down to dinner, heard an explosion. … They follow us on the trail. We went to Akhmatovo, we will return to the mainland tomorrow.
January 14 is the forty-third day. Snowfall, strong wind. The day went on again and practically the whole night. They were very worn out. I ran out of food, ammunition - a dozen rounds and one grenade each. At three o'clock in the morning they went out to their own people."
The raid of the Moscow reconnaissance and sabotage group turned out to be the most effective in comparison with the operations of the other OMSBON detachments carried out in the winter of 1941-1942. Curiously, most of the senior military leaders at the front headquarters did not believe the report of the operation. However, the group of Senior Lieutenant Filonenko had material evidence with them - from the German rear, the soldiers brought huge bags of tokens torn from the killed Nazis, soldiers and officers' documents, German and Soviet money, over three hundred gold and metal pocket and wrist watches, silver and gold trinkets taken from the Nazi invaders. The losses of the detachment were: killed - four people, wounded - four. All participants in the operation received frostbite of varying severity.
For conducting an unprecedented in its audacity raid on the enemy rear in the Moscow region, the detachment commander was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Mikhail Ivanovich received the award personally from the hands of the outstanding commander Georgy Zhukov. It is curious that when Mikhail Ivanovich left the office of Georgy Konstantinovich to the waiting room, he ran into Anna Kamaeva. Then he could not even imagine that he was seeing his future wife.
In the battle for Moscow, Anna Fedorovna was also in the thick of things. Already as a radio operator, she was assigned to one of the OMSBON reconnaissance and sabotage groups and, like Mikhail Ivanovich, was thrown into the rear of the Germans in her native Moscow region. In the report of the head of OMSBON Colonel Gridnev it is noted that "Kamaeva took a direct part in the implementation of special large-scale sabotage operations against German troops on the outskirts of the capital." And in January 1942, Anna Fedorovna, along with other distinguished soldiers of the reconnaissance and sabotage groups, was invited to the headquarters of the commander of the Western Front to receive an award.
Having crossed in the reception room of Georgy Zhukov, the roads of Mikhail Ivanovich and Anna Fedorovna immediately parted for many years. Filonenko was sent as a commissar to a partisan detachment deep in the rear of the Germans. He fought in Ukraine, in Kiev occupied by the Nazis, Mikhail Ivanovich led the reconnaissance and sabotage detachment of the special residence "Olymp" of the fourth NKVD directorate. The information he obtained about the enemy's fortification system on the right bank of the Dnieper River - the so-called "Dnieper Val" - helped our command, when attacking Kiev in the fall of 1943, to determine the optimal places for crossing the water barrier. Filonenko was well known in the partisan detachments of Medvedev, Fedorov and Kovpak; he worked side by side with the legendary intelligence officer Alexei Botyan. During one sabotage operation in Poland, Mikhail Ivanovich was seriously wounded. Doctors saved the life of a fearless soldier, but he became an invalid of the 2nd group. Filonenko left the hospital with a cane, which he did not part with until the end of his life.
Anna Kamaeva continued to serve as a radio operator in partisan detachments operating in the Moscow region. When the threat of the seizure of the Russian capital passed, she was recalled to Moscow and given a job in the central office of the fourth department of the NKVD. From mid-summer until the very end of 1942, the girl studied at the Sverdlovsk school of the NKVD, and then was sent to the Higher School of the NKVD of the USSR for foreign language courses. Here Anna Fedorovna improved her knowledge of Spanish, and also learned Czech and Portuguese. Even then, the intelligence leadership decided to use it abroad for illegal work.
In October 1944, Kamaeva was sent to Mexico to a local illegal residency. There, together with our other intelligence officers, she took part in the preparation of a daring operation to free Ramon Mercader, accused of the murder of Trotsky and sentenced by the court to the death penalty - twenty years in prison. However, at the very last moment, the operation, which included an attack on the prison, was canceled. In 1946, Anna Fedorovna returned to her homeland.
Anna and Mikhail met again after the war. They had a whirlwind romance and soon, on October 1, 1946, the young people got married. A year later, their first child was born - their son Pavlik. However, the Filonenko couple did not have a serene family life. First, they were sent to study at the Higher Intelligence School, which trained personnel for work abroad. Intensive training of future illegal immigrants lasted three years. After that, from October 1948 to August 1951, the Filonenko couple under the guise of foreign citizens made a number of trips to various countries of Latin America. At the same time, their little son was taught Spanish and Czech. According to the plans of the leadership of the illegal intelligence service, Pavlik was also supposed to go abroad in order to provide confirmation of the legend-biography specially developed for his parents. By the way, in the practice of domestic illegal spies, this was one of the first cases of such use of children.
The journey of our agents to Latin America took more than one year. Before going on a long-term business trip, they had to first legalize in Shanghai, posing as Czechoslovak refugees, since after the war a large number of Europeans settled there. On the eve of their departure from the capital, Anna Fedorovna and Mikhail Ivanovich were received by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who at that time also headed the Information Committee, which unites political and military intelligence under his roof. While instructing the intelligence officers, the minister told them that "the Soviet leadership attaches the utmost importance to the upcoming mission," and penetration into the highest military and government echelons of power in the leading Latin American countries would become a springboard for the creation of large-scale intelligence and operational activities of illegal immigrants in the United States.
Such words of the minister, of course, were not accidental. After the end of the war, the roads of the former allies diverged radically. The United States, which in 1945 used an atomic bomb against the already defeated Japan, imagined itself to be the masters of the world and began to prepare a nuclear war against the USSR (Totality program). The course of military confrontation with the Soviet Union was proclaimed in the famous speech of Winston Churchill, delivered on March 5, 1946 in the American city of Fulton. Having fenced off the USSR with an "iron curtain", the Western powers imposed restrictions on the exchange of athletes, scientists, trade union delegations, and on the free movement of Soviet diplomats. In 1948, Soviet consulates and other official representations of the Soviet Union in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles were closed. Anti-Soviet hysteria intensified even more after the atomic bomb tests were carried out in the USSR in August 1949. In September 1950, the United States adopted a provision on internal security (aka the McCaren-Wood Act), according to which the term of imprisonment for espionage in peacetime increased to ten years. At the same time, a "witch hunt" began - the persecution of those Americans who sympathized with leftist political movements and the USSR. More than ten million Americans have been tested for loyalty by law. More than one hundred thousand citizens of the country became victims of the notorious commission of Senator McCarthy, which investigated anti-American activities. In addition, due to the betrayal of the agent-group leader Elizabeth Bentley, our agent network in the post-war period in the United States was destroyed, and it actually had to be created "from scratch."To solve this difficult task, William Fischer, later known as Rudolph Abel, arrived in the United States in 1948. In parallel with him, illegal immigrants Filonenko were assigned to work in Latin America.
Anna, Mikhail and four-year-old Pavel crossed the Soviet-Chinese border illegally in November 1951 through a "window" prepared especially for them. They walked on a dark night in a blizzard through deep snow. Anna Fedorovna was pregnant again at that time. The scouts reached Harbin, where they had to go through the first and most dangerous stage of legalization, more or less safely. In this city they had a daughter, whom her parents named Maria. Since, according to legend, the "refugees from Czechoslovakia" were zealous Catholics, in accordance with European traditions, the newborn had to be christened in a local Catholic church.
From Harbin, the Filonenko family moved to the largest industrial and port center of China - the city of Shanghai. A large European colony has settled here since ancient times, which included about a million people. Europeans lived in separate quarters - settlements that enjoyed extraterritoriality and were ruled by foreign consuls. Here Soviet intelligence officers lived for more than three years, regularly making trips to Latin American countries in order to consolidate the legend-biography and make sure of the reliability of the documents. With the victory of the people's revolution in China, all the privileges of foreign citizens in the country were abolished. Shortly thereafter, an outflow of Europeans began from mainland China. Filonenko left the country with them in January 1955.
The scouts went to Brazil. There, Mikhail Ivanovich, posing as a businessman, launched commercial activities. Anna Fedorovna, on the other hand, was engaged in operational and technical tasks - “insurance” for her husband during his visits to meetings in the city, ensuring the safety of secret documents. Filonenko's first attempt to become a businessman was a failure. The commercial firm he founded went bankrupt. For Brazil in those years, this was not something special - the time of a prosperous economic situation was replaced by a protracted depression. Several dozen, both small and large, went bankrupt in the country every day. Anna Fedorovna recalled: “There were periods when there was nothing to live on, they gave up, I wanted to give up everything. In order not to fall into despair, we gathered our will into a fist and continued to work, although our souls were sad and heavy."
Despite the setback, the first campaign gave the scouts the experience they needed. Mikhail Ivanovich managed to play successfully on the stock exchange several times. The money received was enough to found a new organization and start commercial activities from scratch. Gradually, his business began to pay dividends, and things went uphill. A year later, Filonenko has already acquired a reputation as a prosperous and serious businessman, entering the most influential houses of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia. He constantly traveled around the continent, making connections in business circles, as well as among representatives of the aristocratic and military elite of Latin America.
The stage of legalization of the Filonenko spouses in the New World is over, it's time to carry out the intelligence missions of the Center. The main task of the illegal immigrants was to disclose the plans of the United States regarding our country, first of all, the military and political ones. It was easier to obtain such information in Latin America than in the United States itself - Washington, albeit sparingly, shared its plans with companions from the Western Hemisphere, suggesting their possible participation in the impending war with the USSR.
The amount of work done by the Filonenko couple during their business trip is impressive. From them in a timely manner received unique secret information on the redeployment of strategic units of the troops of the enemy countries of the USSR, on American military bases, on plans for a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. An equally significant place in the work of the Filonenko spouses was occupied by commenting on the policy of the United States and their Western partners in the international arena. Before each session of the UN General Assembly, papers were laid on the table of our delegation, containing information on the positions of the main states of the West. The Soviet leadership more than once made successful moves at the General Assembly meetings precisely thanks to the messages received from our illegal intelligence agents. In addition, Filonenko trained a number of agents for a long-term settling in the States, providing them with reliable cover with the help of the Center.
So the years passed. Another baby appeared in the Filonenko family - the son Ivan. Anna Fedorovna was a faithful friend and helper to her husband. In times of frequent complications of the situation in a country accustomed to military coups, she showed iron restraint and self-control. There were also dramatic situations in the life of Soviet intelligence officers. Once Mikhail Ivanovich went on a business trip, and soon a message came on the radio that the plane on which he wanted to fly had crashed. One can only imagine what Anna Fedorovna went through when the meaning of this message reached her: the widow of an illegal spy in a foreign country with three children in her arms. However, Mikhail Ivanovich appeared at home safe and sound a couple of hours later - by an incredible coincidence, he was at an important meeting before the plane took off and was late for the ill-fated flight.
On the whole, the situation around the Soviet agents remained calm, which was largely facilitated by the strong position that Filonenko occupied on the continent. Using the profits from his business, the Soviet intelligence officer lured "contacts", carried out recruiting work, and after a while acquired an impressive network of agents. Mikhail Ivanovich managed to get into the circle of the President of Brazil himself - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, made acquaintance with the ministers from the government, whom he often invited to visit his villa. The scout also managed to make friends with the odious Alfredo Stroessner, a Paraguayan dictator who flooded his country with emigrants from the Third Reich. There is a story that the President of Paraguay, being a connoisseur of small arms, was struck by the marksmanship of an elegant businessman. Subsequently, he often invited Filonenko to hunt crocodiles with him. In conversations with the Soviet agent, "Uncle Alfredo" was very, very frank. Among other friends of the illegal intelligence officer was the Brazilian Minister of War Enrique Teixeira Lott, the most prominent Latin American architect Oscar Niemeyer, and the writer Jorge Amado.
In 1957, William Fisher was arrested in New York. In order to avoid deciphering the Filonenko spouses, as well as preserving the network of agents they built, which had access to the United States, the Center decided to change the methods of communication with the intelligence officers. All contacts with them through messengers and hiding places were terminated. From now on, communication with the Center was carried out only by radio. The agents were handed the latest model of a shortwave high-speed radio station in a compressed packet of "firing" messages. In this regard, Anna Fedorovna had to remember her military profession as a radio operator. By the way, satellite communications did not exist in those years. A special ship sailed under the guise of a whaling vessel as part of our whaling flotilla, fishing in the waters of the Antarctic. It had a powerful communication center, which was used as an amplifier and repeater of radio signals coming from illegal scouts.
Constant stressful moments, which the scouts had enough, affected the health of Mikhail Ivanovich. In the spring of 1960 he suffered a massive heart attack. He survived, but he could no longer work with the same efficiency. In July of the same year, the Center decided to recall the married couple to their homeland. The agent network created by their work was transferred to our other illegal immigrant and continued to function for many more years.
It took a long time to return home. Spouses, together with children, moved from one state to another in order to hide their real route from the enemy counterintelligence. In the end, they ended up in Europe, and soon they passed the Soviet border by train. The joy of Mikhail Ivanovich and Anna Fyodorovna knew no bounds, and their children listened with surprise to the unknown Russian speech. Two of them, born in a foreign land, have never heard any other language than Spanish, Czech and Portuguese. Subsequently, the children took a long time to get used to the Russian speech, to a new home and even to their own real surname.
Having left abroad from the Stalinist country, the illegal scouts returned to a completely different era. They left on the assignment as employees of the NKVD of the Soviet Union, and came back as employees of the KGB. By today's standards, the Filonenko spouses were still young - just over forty. After rest and treatment, they returned to duty. Their services at home were marked with high awards. Colonel Mikhail Filonenko received the post of deputy head of the department in the Office of Illegal Intelligence. His wife, a major of state security, also worked in the same department.
However, the scouts did not work for long - in their department they were always wary of illegal immigrants. After being laid off again, they retired together in 1963. And in the early seventies, director Tatyana Lioznova began filming the popular TV series "Seventeen Moments of Spring". It was imperative for her to have experienced consultants. Tatiana Mikhailovna was interested in the smallest details of everyday life, the experiences of illegal immigrants, the psychology of the Western inhabitant. To help the director, the leadership of the KGB allocated Anna Fedorovna and Mikhail Ivanovich. Many episodes of the wonderful film were advised by the Filonenko spouses. One of them is the plot with the birth of a child. In fairness, it should be noted that Anna Fedorovna, unlike the radio operator Kat, did not shout in Russian when giving birth to children abroad. In general, Anna Filonenko-Kamaeva is considered the prototype of the radio operator's film image. The actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov was also well acquainted with the scouts. Their friendship lasted until the death of the married couple. Despite the fact that the prototypes of Stirlitz in the story were a number of employees of domestic foreign intelligence, the artist, creating the most convincing image of a Russian spy, took over a lot from Mikhail Ivanovich.
A veil of secrecy enveloped the Filonenko couple until their very death. Mikhail Ivanovich passed away in 1982, during the era of the Soviet superpower. Anna Fedorovna, who survived her husband for sixteen years, saw the death of the Soviet Union and experienced all the "delights" of the nineties. She died on June 18, 1998. Several years ago, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service declassified their names. Articles appeared in the press revealing individual episodes of the most interesting biographies of these foreign intelligence workers. The feat of the Filonenko spouses is not forgotten, but the time has not yet come to talk about many of their deeds.
