attempts to get in touch with the german leadership were made more than once; now hopes were placed on dimyanov’sctions and capabilities; he immediately got down to business, beginning to outline a program of action. a member of a secret organization, which... was not in the house for its meetings, that it was created not without the help of nkvd agents introduced into its ranks, and that the much-awaited respected one gathered under the guise of spiritualistic seances, the guest is none other than a career employee of the special services with operational pseudonym heine. the operation, planned by the ussr state security authorities, began and was called the monastery. initially, the task was to penetrate the intelligence network. to identify agents who were dropped in large numbers into the territory of the ussr, occupied and strategically important regions, but then it grew into something more. operation monastery was the first to be developed as a radio game with the enemy based on his disinformation. it began on february 17, 1942. after careful preparation, alexander petrovich demyanov was d