Special Tasks

This is the autobiography of Stalin's Director of Special Tasks - namely, kidnapping and assassination; sabotage and guerilla warfare during World War II; the establishment of illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe; and atomic espionage in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Pavel Sudoplatov reveals how he organized Trotsky's assassination on Stalin's direct orders; the true fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of 100,000 Hungarian Jews; confirmation of the identity of the Fifth Man; and how Khrushchev engineered Beria's arrest of execution to whitewash his own complicity in Stalin's crimes.