Hard cover, 608 pages.
The Book "Special Operation Necro. Declassified Stories from the Intelligence Archive"
Fifty essays are based on unique declassified documents from the archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. They allow us to learn about hitherto unknown episodes of special operations of the GPU/NKVD/MGB/KGB of the USSR abroad against prominent figures of the Ukrainian national liberation movement. In particular, about the first attempt to eliminate Andriy Melnyk and Stepan Bandera back in 1944 in Berlin; about the new circumstances of the murder of Yevhen Konovalets; about how NKVD agents were infiltrated into the inner circle of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky abroad; about the intentions to recruit Vsevolod Zmiienko, Chief of Intelligence of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Oleksandr Shulhin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Oleh Shtul-Zhdanovych, head of the OUN (M), Vasyl Vashyvaniy, a fighter for the Ukrainian cause, and other figures, and what happened as a result; about one of the first attempts to use top-secret special means against the military minister of the UPR government in exile, Mykola Kapustiansky; about how the KGB carried out a large-scale special operation called "Necro" against the head of the OUN (b), Yaroslav Stetsko, in order to bring him to an untimely death.
In addition, readers will be able to learn a lot of new and interesting things about the lives and activities of Oleh Olzhych, Ivan Lytvynenko, Yakiv Vodianyi, Andriy Livytskyi, Isaak Mazepa, Oleksandr Udovychenko, Roman Smal-Stotskyi, Ivan Ohienko, Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, Vasyl Filonovych, Volodymyr Murskyi, Lev Rebet, Nestor Makhno, and other figures of national history who were monitored by the Bolshevik secret services around the world.
The book is also valuable because the author, Oleksandr Skrypnyk, a long-term researcher of the history of special services, provides many quotes from operational briefings, intelligence reports, plans, and reports, makes references to documents, and presents photographs and images of individual documents from archival files, which will be useful to historians, scholars, journalists, political scientists, experts, students, and anyone interested in national history for use in their own research.
At the same time, the book will help to better understand what is happening today, the nature of Russia's aggressive policy and the activities of its special services, and will help specialists to counteract them more effectively, in particular on the information front.
