Analysis of Operation “Monastery”: historical significance and role for the strategic camouflage measures of the Red Army (1941-1945)

the article is devoted to the analysis of the historical significance of Operation "Monastery" during the Great Patriotic War. Operation "Monastery" (1941-1944) was one of the largest and most successful radio games of Soviet counterintelligence during the Great Patriotic War. Its goal was the systematic misleading of the German command through the transmission of disinformation, which played a key role in the victories at Stalingrad and Kursk. The purpose of the study is to theoretically study the experience of misleading the enemy (strategic disinformation) during the Great Patriotic War. The article analyzes the impact of the operation on the strategy of the Wehrmacht. 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. Studying the experience of Operation Monastery and other similar operations remains an important part of training specialists in the field of national security, intelligence and information warfare.

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