TGuliteky, delegate of the O.G.P.U.
The Foreign Section of the 0.G: P.U,, considered by the Bolshe-yik "leaders as being of most importance after the section responrible for operations in Russia, corned exclusively with activity cat ride the U.S.S.R. In principle, it uowesses a centre of action in the five parts of the world, centre which constitutes, from the practical point of view, a relay Moscow, but is in no way an ization of command. Europe. the base of its operations at Berlin. (See accompanying chart).
To. prepare Russian and foreign ponts for their work in the see-tiens of the O.G.P.U. abroad, speial schools have been opened where the courses include the organization secret observation, the study of explosives and of terrorist attempts, and the methods of provocation in the fight against adverse political paities—an example of which took lace here in Shanghai on the octasian of the Incident of May 30, ae Since the appearance of Soviet diplomatic" representatives abroad, the O.G.P.U, has demanded the right to have sections in suction with the Soviet "eimbassi 1 The reason given is invariably "the necessity of fighting counter-revolutiotiary centres "abroad." These centres, how®fer, have gone far Reyond' this task and their in-precaution, ordered tobe sent in ci The whole system of working was modified and curtailed at the same ime and those sections of the .G.P.U. attached to the various ies were deprived of their right of direct operative action, weir work being taken over by illegal organizations of which the head or "resident" was placed above all the secret agents of the 0.G.P.U, while maintaining close contact with the sections, attached tothe embassies. (See chart.) These sections gave the "resident" their ireetions and information, and anded over to this official their funds. Contact was made through the intermediary of a clever agent, often a woman, In Paris, Yor instance, contact was made by the woman Yanovitch, head of the section of the 0.G: P.U. connected with the embassy in Rue de Grenelle.
Service agents avd "re-of the O.G.P.U. are recruited mainly from among non-Soviet citizens or among Bolsheviks provided abroad with "faked" passports; by these means Moscow is fully covered by this system even its agents are arrested.
The information I have on this very important and interesting sub-Ject is too long to give in a single letter and I will, Sir, if you permit, give further details to your readers to the working of the 0.G.P.U.
Europe, its organization in China and, particularly, in Shanghai.
Tam, ete, Secretary.
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