on june 17 , people's commissar of state security vsevolad mirkulov and intelligence chief pavel fitinummoned to the kremlin. stalin demanded an explanation regarding the telegram received from berlin from the foreman and karsikanets. it had a completely different content. all military events in germany preparations for an armed uprising against the ussr are completely completed, a strike can be expected at any time. stalin characterized it as disinformation and demanded that it be verified through other channels. i couldn’t believe the reports from other sources that operation sea lion was a carefully thought-out plan to disinform the germans, but... alarming messages continued to arrive almost every day. the morning at the mitropol hotel on june 18, 1941 was ordinary, helpful staff were bustling around, guests were going about their business, no one i didn’t even suspect what secrets these walls kept, and what was going to happen here, literally in the next few minutes. at the mitropol hotel, between the second and third floors , the elevator suddenly stopped. the excited courier, a

during interrogation , he told fitin that the germans expected to enter minsk 5 days after the startr. then the head of the ussr intelligence service could not believe what he heard, and did not want to. but nelidov was wrong by only one day. the belarusian capital was occupied on the sixth day of the war. in the first days of the week of the war, german intelligence officers captured a large number of documents from state security agencies and party archives. in brest, in grodno, they had at their disposal all the documentation of the nkvd administration. in minsk there are archives of the government house, part of the archives and documents of the people's commissariat of state security of the bssr. only one abwehr group 107 was at its disposal. appointed diplomat from ribentrop's inner circle. beyond suspicion. olga chekhova, actress. beyond suspicion. janusz, radivil. khosh in... he’s a karsikan, perhaps that’s all, but there is no reliable connection with them, there are still agents in countries not occupied by germany. letter train with internees soviet citizens, who were trav