The briefing note of the Leningrad Oblast Directorate of the KGB of the Council of Ministers dated 18 March 1960 on the response of the clergy and citizens of the USSR to the attitude of the protopriest A.A. Osipov, who recanted his faith in God and became a zealous anti- Church campaigner. The note is prepared for publication by I.V. Petrov, stored in the Central State archive of the historico-political documents of Saint-Petersburg (TsGA IPD SPb).