The Archive · 1930

Soviet Terrorist Organization

the Editor of the "Nontu-CHiNa Dairy News." sin,—The abduction of General Xoutepoff has once more drawn the tention of Governments and oldie opinion to the activities out of Russin of the 0.G.P.U, utter known as the infamous Cheka. This abduction (so far as the outside world is concerned) re-anams a mystery but one of its immediate results was the fall of the French Cabinet. The ° following, information relating to the 0.G.P.U. ie obtained from statements made Bessedovsky after his escape from the Bolshevik Embassy in Fans, It is not complete but, will hip to throw light on the subject and; be of assistance in further The 0.G.P.U. is controlled by a committee selected by the Political dependence of action and of or: {nto a complete hegemony within ization was very scon changed

the different "embassies," in fact, they became a sort of State within a State and the entire personnel of each embassy, including the ambassador, became subject supervision" on the part of the O.G.P.U. These sections are _occupied in spying, in committing terroust acts, and in helping the organs of the Komintern in their iMegal work.

These conditions lasted until 1925 to 1927, when the risk of possible raids on their embassies obliged the Bolsheviks to change somewhat ization of the O.G.P.U. abroad, though without modifying their methods and aims. The various branches were ordered to mask their operations and their personnel was reduced in numbers. Correspondence from and to M cow with the foreign sections wa: Gone through the diplomatic bag

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