This is the book that was written in the late 1970-s by Arkady Shevchenko, who served as as UN Under Secretary General and was the highest-ranking Soviet diplomat ever to defect to the west. The book contains valuable insider information that unveils the goals and methods of the International policy of the late USSR as well as of the methods of Soviet KGB and GRU. It also describes personal life of the author which was marked with inner conflicts and his transformation from a Communist hard-liner to an American spy and defector.