Anna Rudakova Photo: from the personal archive Former Secretary of counterintelligence “SMERSH” (“Death to spies”), Anna Rudakova said that the person was typing confidential reports for Joseph Stalin and Lavrenti Beria. She told about it in interview to “Moskovsky Komsomolets”. “The hardest part was to print special reports to Stalin. The requirements were special: the best paper (white, thick), padding on the fields and no fixes. I have a lot to President secret papers prepared”, – said Rudakov. During the great Patriotic war, she said, she met with agents of the military counterintelligence and shorthand the testimony of German spies. “Some of their stories (it concerned high-ranking prisoners of war), I was forbidden to record. I had everything down to a single word, remember and then verbally convey this to your superiors,” she said. According to Rudakov, the salary of the Secretary of “SMERSH” was 900 rubles. Staff are permitted
