person of the week 15.12.1994 (1994)

Fragments of the animated film "Spy Passions".

Newsreel of 1924: Dzerzhinsky F. E. speaks at a meeting.

Faces of Yagoda G. G. and Ezhova N. I.

Beria L. P. speaks from the podium.

Counterintelligence Colonel Stanislav V. Lekarev talks about his service in the state security agencies, about the work of a professional intelligence officer and his necessary qualities, about working undercover abroad, about the peculiarities of the work of intelligence and counterintelligence, about the methods of work of Western intelligence services, about the operation to expose an American intelligence officer-an employee of the Foreign Ministry, about the lack of coordination of the actions of modern Russian special services, about the reasons for the departure of individual intelligence officers to the West, about the decline in the level of professionalism of intelligence officers and the lack of changes for the better.