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N. Petrovsky, S.G. Petrov

Cipher telegram of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to the provincial committees of the RCP (b) and the governorate departments of the GPU about the persons leading church policy in the provinces. April 10, 1922

No. 23-37

April 10, 1922

VERY SECRET.

IN CODE CIRCULARLY.

ALL SPRING COMMISSIONS OF THE RKP COPY OF THE GUBOTDELS OF THE GPU

According to the resolution of the meeting of the secretaries of the provincial committees at the 11th congress of the party of the 36th Central Committee of the RCP, all the provincial committees, within three days of receiving this one, must inform the Central Committee of a copy of the GPU who was appointed by the provincial committee to lead church policy in the province. 10 April 1922, point 1 *

SECRETARY OF THE RKP CC STALIN.

-  L. 54. Typewritten copy of that time, certified by the deputy head of the cipher bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) S.F. Chechulin. Below is a handwritten note about the mailing: "from No. 2107 / sh to No. 2177 / sh inclusive]". In the upper left corner there is a handwritten note on the document's belonging to the office work of the Politburo meeting, minutes No. 114, item 1 of March 20, 1922. The secrecy formula is stamped.

-  Published without semantic discrepancies: The chosen vessel ... P. 317.

Notes and Comments:

1 * Inscribed in a line by the hand of S.F.Chechulin.

36  On the meeting of the secretaries of the provincial committees on March 30, 1922 see comm. 18 to d. 23.