SPECIAL TASKS: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster, by Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoly Sudoplatov with Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter.

Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness, a Soviet Spymaster.

Pavel Anatoli Sudoplatov; Jerrold L. Schecter; and Leona P. Schecter, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster.

SPECIAL TASKS: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster.

The book, "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - a Soviet Spymaster," was written by Pavel Sudoplatov and recently published by Little, Brown & Company.

A former Soviet spy master, Pavel Sudoplatov, wrote in his memoir in 1995, "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - a Soviet Spymaster," that Ms. Konenkova had been a spy, but offered little evidence.

The most notorious spy memoir to appear recently is "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster," by Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoly Sudoplatov, written with Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter.

The book, "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - a Soviet Spymaster," was published yesterday by Little, Brown & Company and is excerpted in the current issue of Time magazine.

The "And Bear in Mind" listing on page 18 of the Times Book Review today includes a brief description of "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster," by Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoly Sudoplatov with Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter.

General Sudoplatov told of those and other deeds in "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - a Soviet Spymaster," written with his son, Anatoli, and Jerrold and Leona Schecter.