A presentation ceremony is to be held at the RIS press-bureau in Moscow on May 18, said Boris Labusov of the RIS press-service. The book consisting of several parts offers the profiles of 23 famous spies, including Petr Ivashutin, Jan Chernyak, Nikolai Kuznetsov and others.
Vladimir Zavershinsky has revealed certain RIS principles. He noted in part that none of the RIS officers has been detained for a long period to fail to be in the final analysis helped out, or exchanged, or see other measures taken for his release.
"Even if, after having been associated with our service, a person takes up other activities and is arrested abroad on charges of RIS connection, Russia and our community will not leave him in trouble," said Zavershinsky. "This is a firm principle we have never violated," emphasized Zavershinsky.
He also reported that he did not even admit the possibility of any foreign spies that were undercover agents, operating on the territory of Russia. "But stool pigeons from among Russian and Soviet citizens, migrants and emigrants (or their children and grand-children) do exist," he added.
Some agents whose deeds are described in the book are expected to be present at the book ceremony.
