The manual "Operational activities and issues of conspiracy in the work of special services (on the materials of the open press and literature)" includes formulated rules and recommendations for specific operational activities or decision-making on the merits of the operational situation. and recommendations are selected from the analysis of materials taken from historical, memoir sources, photocopies of service instructions and textbooks in the open press, periodicals and fiction. The analysis used materials in Russian, translations from English, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Ukrainian, made by the authors of the manual, as well as translated literature in Russian and Ukrainian, published in the former Soviet Union and abroad.