Although the Movements passed in different periods, they had a joint aim – proclamation of independence of Ukraine. Formation of special services occurred in the very time of revolutions.

The special services played rather important role in the process of protection of national interests of Ukraine. Common features of secret services formation as well as assigned missions similarities gave the authors opportunity to unite the main parts of the book into a meaningful plot.


V.S.Sidak “National Special Services during the Ukrainian revolution in 1917-1921” (unknown pages of history). – K., The Publishing house “Alternatyvy”, 1998. – 320 p.

The study describes creation of intelligence, counter intelligence bodies, and other special services of Ukrainian national formations from 1917 to 1920: the Tzentralna Rada, the Hetman State, the Directorate, the UNR, the ZUNR and the State Center of the UNR in exile. The author used a great number of printed sources, memories and archive documents that were unknown before.

Due to these materials, the author achieved a maximum of objectiveness while describing the past events, estimating achievements and failures of the special services in the struggle for the state sovereignty of Ukraine.

The book is useful for historians, lowers, cadets of higher educational institutions, and also for everyone who is interested in the history of Ukraine.



G. Kovtun “The Philosophy of Intelligence” – K., the Publishing house “President”, 2001. – 629 p.

The book has been written by Doctor of Law, retired Major General, Ex-Chairman of the Ukrainian Intelligence (1991-1992).

It contains statements about the intelligence and counter intelligence bodies from ancient times till present, as well as extracts from different documents (more then 2000 quotations).

These quotations were abstracted from dissertations, theory and historian studies on Intelligence as well as from archive documents.

The author tried to cover and present the points of view of different individuals: intelligence officers, politicians, outstanding agents, writers and journalists.


M.P. Vavrynchuk, V.S. Shevchenko “A Man from a legend” – Khmelnytsky, “Podillya”, 2005. – 127 p.

The book describes the life of Mykola Prokopyuk, the outstanding intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1920-1930 he took different positions in intelligence bodies at Khmelnytska area, Kharkiv, and Kyiv.

In 1937-1938 he was Deputy assistant to the Soviet resident of Foreign Intelligence in Barcelona, simultaneously caring out his duties as Acting Adviser of the Republican Army and Commander of the International Guerrilla Brigade. Before the Great Patriotic War Mykola Prokopyuk had an intelligence mission at Finland. In 1941 he and other diplomatic representatives were deported from the country.

During the Wartime Mykola Prokopyuk was engaged in training intelligence subversive groups that acted on the territory of Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In 1944 he carried out a special mission at China. In the post-War period he assisted officials of the German Democratic Republic in creating state security bodies.

The authors of the book are the writer from the Podillya region V.Shevchenko, and Major General of the SBU M. Vavrynchuk. They were the first to describe the life of ex-intelligence officer in detail.


V. Zavalishyna, M. Smeshnov “His name was Zorych”. – Kyiv, Publishing house “Political literature”, 1965. – 96 p.

In the beginning of 1943, the security state bodies started to organize the small operational groups of 5-10 members. These groups infiltrated into the enemy rear and acted as guerrilla units. They conducted intelligence and counter intelligence operations, recruited agents in the military and administrational bodies.

The same pattern happened later in 1944, when the Soviet army approached the border of Eastern Europe. Several groups operated at Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Olexandr Svyatogorov was one of the members of such groups, struggling against Fascists troops in Poland and Slovakia during the last stage of the war. He left a great trace in the history of the Ukrainian intelligence.

The documentary story describes some of special operations in which he took part.


Mikhailo Grechka “Times differ, outcome is one”. K., 2003. – 388 p.

The author of the book Mikhailo Yakovych Grechka was born in Cherkassy region, 1949. He is a lawyer. For a long time he was serving in the Foreign Intelligence Service and resided in a number of Asian and European countries. He has the rank of colonel and can speak German and Farsi. Nowadays he is busy with geopolitics and is the head scientific and philosophical center “Euro – Asia - III century”.

Events described in this work take place in the countries of Central Asia in the late 1970s. Pursuing its selfish interests one of the secret international organizations tries to trigger off a confrontation between two superpowers in this region. The main hero of the book is a security agent who fulfills the tasks of national importance and is caught up by the events. Due to his special professional training he manages to get strategic information about conspiring against his country.