Misinforming the enemy (strategic disinformation) during the Great Patriotic War (based on the experience of operation "Monastery")

the article is devoted to the analysis of the stages of the operation "Monastery" during the Great Patriotic War. The study of Operation "Monastery" and other special operations of the Soviet intelligence services during the Great Patriotic War remained difficult for a long time due to the classification of the relevant materials. Only since the 1990s, after the declassification of some archival documents, has it become possible to conduct a more in-depth and objective study of this topic. Operation "Monastery" (1941-1944) is one of the largest and most successful radio games of the Soviet counterintelligence during the Great Patriotic War. Its goal was to systematically mislead the German command through the transmission of disinformation, which played a key role in the victories at Stalingrad and Kursk. The article analyzes the stages of the operation, methods of disinformation, organizational mechanisms. Based on archival materials, memoirs of participants and modern research, the contribution of the operation to the development of the art of military intelligence is revealed.

Great Patriotic War, strategic disinformation, enemy, Operation Monastery, historical significance