Vadim Birstein - The Perversion of Knowledge

[At the top, the left side] soc[ially] dangerous as a/S [anti-Soviet element] (70)

1. Last Name: Shatunovskaya

2. Name: Lidiya

3. Patronymic Name: Aleksandrovna

4. Year of birth: 1906

5. Place of birth: the city of Odessa

6. Address: Moscow, Serafimovicha Str., 2, ap. 145

7. Profession (speciality): none

8. Place of work, position: a housekeeper

9. Party membership: not a Party member

10. Nationality: a Jewess

11. Citizenship: USSR

12. Date of the arrest: December 17, 1947

13. Type of crime: —

14. Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–1a [treason of the Motherland], 58–10 pt. II [anti-Soviet nationalistic propaganda], 58–11 [membership in an anti-Soviet organization]

15. Place of the fulfillment of the card (mention the prison, KPZ [police station], camp, colony): Prison No. 2 in the city of Vladimir

June 24, 1948

Person who filled out the card: Danilova

Organ (in charge of the arrest): Investigation Department for Especially Important Cases of the MGB of the USSR

No. of the Case: 911

[Nos. of the Corpus-Nos. of the Vladimir Prison cell; date of the transfer]

2–25

3–54; July 7, 1948

2–13; October 2, 1948

1–56; July 7, 1949

2–12; August 27, 1949

2–26; August 31, 1949

2–33; January 6, 1950

1–99; September 13, 1950

2–33; September 29, 1950

3–32; October 27, 1951

2–32; December 31, 1951

3–33; February 16, 1952

3–32; February 25, 1952

3–33; March 17, 1952

3–60; May 7, 1953

2–28; May 13, 1953

3–33; May 19, 1953

Convicted by: Special Board of the MGB (OSO)

Date: May 29, 1948

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–1a, 58–10 pt. II, 58–11

Term: 20 years of imprisonment

Beginning of the term: December 27, 1947

End of the term: December 27, 1967

On May 27, 1954 [the prisoner] was released and the case was cancelled; the decision of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court No. UN 05028/54 dated May 12, 1954. [She] went to the place of her residence in Moscow.

[On the top, to the right] physicist

Last Name: Tumerman

Name: Lev

Patronymic Name: Abramovich

Year of birth: 1898

Place of birth: the town of Berdichev

Address: Moscow, Serafimovicha Str., 2, ap. 145

Place of work: Institute of Physics of the AN USSR [Academy of Sciences],

Senior Researcher

Nationality: a Jew

Citizenship: USSR

Convicted by: Special Board of the MGB (OSO)

Date: May 29, 1948

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 19–58–1a (treason of the Motherland),

16. 58–10 pt. I [anti-Soviet propaganda], 58–11 [membership in an anti-Soviet organization]

Term: 20 years of imprisonment

Date of the arrival in Vladimir Prison: June 26, 1948

On July 3, 1954 [the prisoner] was transferred to Inner [Lubyanka] Prison of the KGB under the USSR SM [Council of Ministers] in Moscow 7

Note: socially dangerous as a/S [anti-Soviet element; the same as on the card of his wife, Lidiya Shatunovskaya, see the previous Document No. 6]

[On the top, to the right] (scientific worker)

Last Name: Levina

Name: Revekka [Rebekka]

Patronymic Name: Saulovna

Year of birth: 1899

Place of birth: the village of Zhagorie [Zagorie] of the Lithuanian SSR

Address: Moscow, Bol’shaya Kaluzhskaya Str., 13, ap. 6

Place of work: Institute of the Economy of the AN USSR [Academy of Sciences], Senior Researcher

Nationality: a Jewess

Citizenship: USSR

Convicted by: Special Board of the MGB (OSO)

Date: May 29, 1948

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–10 pt. II (anti-Soviet propaganda), 58–11 [membership in an anti-Soviet organization]

Term: 10 years of imprisonment

Date of the arrival in Vladimir Prison: June 28, 1948

On June 29, 1953 [the prisoner] was transferred to Butyrka Prison of the MVD USSR in Moscow

[On the top] American spy 1. Last Name: Goldstein

2. Name: Isaak

3. Patronymic Name: Iosifovich

4. Year of birth: 1892

5. Place of birth: Zamoscie, Poland

6. Address: Moscow, ul. Ogareva, 3, ap. 16

7. Profession (speciality): economist

8. Place of work, position: USSR Academy of Sciences, researcher

9. Party membership: none

10. Nationality: a Jew

11. Citizenship: USSR

12. Date of the arrest: December 19, 1947

13. Type of crime: espionage

14. Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–1a, 58–10 p. I

15. Place of the fulfillment of the card (mention the prison, KPZ [police station], camp, colony): Prison No. 2, [the city of] Vlad[imir]

June 20, 1950

Person who filled out the card: Soldatov

Organ (in charge of the arrest): Department for the Especially Important Cases of the MGB of the USSR

No. of the Case: 174

[Nos. of the Corpus-Nos. of the Vladimir Prison cell, date of the transfer]

1–102; June 19, 1950

1–80; June 19, 1950

2–92; June 20, 1950

1–78; August 21, 1950

3–46; September 12, 1950

2–2; November 9, 1950

3–3; September 27, 1951

2–2; December 4, 1951

2–20; October 17, 1953

Convicted by: Special Council [OSO] under the MGB of the USSR

Date: October 29, 1949

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: espionage

Term: 25 years of t/z [imprisonment]

Beginning of the term: December 19, 1947

End of the term: December 19, 1947

Property to be confiscated

[The prisoner] died on October 30, 1953

A letter to Stalin signed by Abakumov and Ogol’tsov 10

B.[ook] 3

SPECIAL FILE [a stamp]

Top Secret

Central Committee of the VKP(b) [Bolshevik Party]

To: Com.[rade] I. V. STALIN

We are presenting to you two drafts of the Decisions of the C[entral] C[ommittee]of the VKP(b):

First: On the creation of the Bureau No. 1 for the terrorist activity abroad , on the approval of the structure of this Bureau and on the appointment Com.[rade] P. A. Sudoplatov its Head and Com.[rade] A. M. Korotkov its Deputy Head;

Second: On the creation of the Bureau No. 2 for the execution of special tasks within the Soviet Union , on the approval of the structure of this Bureau and on the appointment Com.[rade] V. A. Drozdov, currently working Deputy Minister of State Security of the Ukrainian SSR (information is provided), its Head.

We ask for your decision.

I do not object. I. S. [Stalin’s resolution in handwriting]

No. 6990/A

August 4, 1950

ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

SCIENTIFIC ARCHIVE

Moscow, Solyanka Street 14 Tel. K 7–82–13

No. 20–167 January 5, 1962

To Citizen Mairanovsky Grigory Moiseevich

Moscow G–21, Frunzenskaya Naberezhnaya, 8, ap. 17