54 INVESTIGATION OF COMIVIUNIST PRUPAGANDA I mVESTIGATION OF OOMMU 55
NIST PROPAGANDA
The number of army oiiicers professional and business men small . . .
merchants, Kulaks, and count<-ir—revo1utionists, such as Social _a)emo- rvagesilagayligg alncilonaatgn gnat roports of tns Brltlsh ambassador to
crats and Social Revolutionists, who have been shot down 111 cold ,)e,,,mm§H,, seg? ,=~s=g1_1<==S of tno Amsrlcah GOV€rhm€nt, Were a
blood like mad-dogs, or murdered in the Cheka and O. G. P. U. hllhg aceivitilcag mln glnéation to tha O- G-   U· _
cellars, will not be definitely known for years to come, if ever. Some Very limited ES 0 _ ai '.e,‘ . ‘ U· ln, ana Unltorl States 15 probably
estimates place it as high as 2,000,000 unfortunates. Men and women ee China Ilidinmléala Wl l lta aotlyltlss lh near-by OOUntI‘1€S, SUCl1
are arrested secretly, tried secretly, and executed secretly. A vent- however ’thet ta gangagyé Or Jana nor‘lor.statos· rrgabskolr stttt?$»
able reign of terror has cowed the Russian people since the com- international aaad ,51115 . taros Plays a blg Part lh the COfn1nUn1St
munists overthrew the provisional government un er Kerensky. ,,,,SSPO,.tS as bei;1 th a fats agents lnalra uso of forged Amsrlcah
The O, G. P. U, has charge of the prisons and the lumber Con- G1.e,,O,. Bees?-do 8 ia asiglann easter to araval nndan , ,
centration camps in northern Russia. Hundreds of thol1Si1I1dS of Paris Ckvhag, fled fm wstgan S 8. fmman Snvlan Cllargs dralralrss at
inoifensive Russians, because they were born of bourgeois parents Golden in the Amtm a bolnot Embassy. hlshtlOh€tl fl nun named _
0r_held positions in the. Czar’s government or the army, or were 1,, this eeuntry Heoilgfdaietzlngglio l§ProsontatlVs Or th€ O-_G· P. U.
priests who remained faithful to their trusts, were ex1led, together ,,1 New York ' d b d nna o nsala when tha C0lhrUltt€€_1h€‘t
with 500,000 or more Kulaks, to the prison camps near Archangel or hee no deiiniéean f ay?} Bossoolowslry s st&t9m€nt the committee
in Siberia, and disappeared into the Russian forests without a trace. . . Ziwkin the ln €rgna.lon· Evlrlshcs Was P1`€S€nted that_ Feodor
The stark horror and pitiful tragedy of the men and women of all e bhekise legggaan lgsniloas manager of the _AIntO1‘g, Was formerly
ageg and all classes and creeds who once get into the hands of the Ellehsh and Img 1;;,1 H? £;§InéDo€l· _ Mr- ZlaVlUh _d0eS not speak
O. , P. U. is not conceivable to Americans. .· '° · . - - — as ralnlng or oxporlsnos to qhallt
The orgtanization of the _O. G. P. U. is enormous and takes/up half ~ ; lsgneiogigzlgignpoaltelgn jp Saoratary and bnslnsss rrlrthttgsr rO1' SUCK
a mile of uildings, including two big prisons, in the heart of the city eeuing million ani ua nnorg Traollng CorP0ratlOh; Uying and
of Moscow. It is stated on good authority that together with the ibm, Ehe genes; mgnsrgrwojtitil Og gcinils a nlontn It ls Well lrnowh
shock troops that there are 30,000 active members of the secret police em t g o ra s C s sgat1OhS of the Soviet. Gov- ·
fem i¤ MOSCOW- ’ to iiliitvgrthainfrgla °“ainlal°filha O' a` a' U` Thee is “° “""S°“
According to G. A abekoit a former oilicial of the O. G. P. U., l allan sl ua lon sxlsts ih tho United States or
this secret police serviaice is one of the most important departments glgaeieggg agéngarig la tlnnnnno any mOr€ than other Soviet trading
in the entire soviet system of government, and divided into the DTh lp Oman) nnaalons th1‘<>¤eh<>1¤¢ tns World-
following departments; \Vi€Sgns;$1rsli;rgl?;1 (Oir'hg;ll_3b§1‘atior, lof llxir. Ziavkin, one Comrade Liza
1 ‘ - .
Intelligence Service (K. R- 0,). Committee; held h _ n ivi ua w odisappeared ]llSli. before the .
Foreign department (L N_ O, I a t d earlngs in New Yoik. This mysterious person
§f3if§§i“§§,§‘§£i”°§§.(?o Oelg safe eiaeaysgzirillliiaaoi°ii2lI.t$“Z5la.n`§f"}l°ii""$§ °§ tl? Am"`? and
m . . . ¤ . 6 O . . . . . ·
Extra special gepartment (S. P. E. K. 0.).   klrld of ll€l$0H with the AInerica1‘iac0mmuni;tg_ U l ana also
gefizgzpglggg il Igieriemics (E. K. U,). wiggggoif ]iggtn§ igeytof cheéking up dletinitely on the O. G. P. U,
. , U O _ _. e a es wi if ‘ _
ilreelrggll ggpénéiemegt S330 )d c§¥ger1n(gi%heleaplegrams sent to   froliii tliae1IAi(aint4or`g1gnd) iviligcx
Xecu ive an organizat on epartment. ls _ l CU 0 l$tlI1gl1lSl1 between O. G. P, U, agents and pg  
For example, according to Agabekoft, the function of the €Xt1`7i mS%nt,at1VaS Of tna Connnnnlst l¤t¤1‘¤¤ti¤¤¤1· The fact ls» Mcordiriag
special department is the intercepting of foreign codes, and the an _aana‘n°V’ former Ssaorotary to Stallha that IUOFG than half of the
reading of code telegrams from abroad. It also composes codes for Wolkors ln tns Commlssalmt of Foreign Affairs and of Commerce -
the soviet departments within the country and abroad. This depart- are agents or llno O· G·  · U- BaZhahOV gO€S on to State that in order
ment carries on the work of reading codes splendidly and compiles to nlnanrato what an aotlys Part th€ O- G. P. U. takes in the prepare-
weekly a list of foreign code telegrams it has read, for the informa- _.. , tlon of oolnmnhlst UPh€¤V&lS abroad, it is enough to recall that the
tion of the heads of the O. G. P. U. departments, as well as for linlallaratlon of ana armed rsvolt in Germany in 1923 was assigned to
` members of the central committee. The foreign department deals tno Cnolrlst Unschllcht and h1S staff.
with the secret service work in foreign countries. It has its repre- Bessedowsky refers to the Seoret police activities in America as
senitativfes in every soviet lemleaigy, legation, important consulate, _ \, follows:
anc tra mo agencies outsite 0 ussia. I also paid a visit to the h' 13 f th 15 · · b . .
According th Agabekon, a 1nan by the name of Katsky was the aatnat tllna (1926) the Amceiliaxiii actiavinsaslailfl tlile1aauPafIih1(ia(dr.n1?>tIiistialsgnfiild
Hrst O. G. P. U. resident in America, and lived here as an Amtorg §€l;nla)ag%a,nr§n°rtlons· As sV°rYWh€r€· the G· P. U. agents in America mgdg
worker up to 1929 when he returned to Moscow and was Jlaced in · · D 0 ny on the employees Oa tna alntars anno lnan ln charge of the
, l _ [ esplonage Work in New York is one Gordon who lives in Am ‘ d
charge of the Anglo-A merican branch of the foreign department of ’ ¤SS¤1¤€d name- Oinciany he is the manager bf the Amtorv omciraiii nm aa an
the _ G_ P_ U_ 4 _ (the manager of the Amtorg omce in New York whg mgm the curigg ,,2,1;
Jewish name of Grafpen). In order to coordinate the activities of the several