Vadim Birstein - The Perversion of Knowledge

March 14, 1955; January 16, 1959

Person who filled out the card: V. Danilova

Organ (in charge of the arrest): 3rd Main Directorate of the MGB of the USSR

No. of the Case: 1035

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

3–34; November 14, 1954

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

Date: July 3, 1948

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: Decree from April 19, 1943

Term: 25 TZ [years of imprisonment]

Beginning of the term: June 24, 1945

End of the term: June 24, 1970

Valuables found on the arrest should be confiscated

[The prisoner] arrived from Lefortovo Prison of the MGB in Moscow on July 30, 1948

On August 13, 1955 [the prisoner] left for Inner [Lubyanka] Prison of the KGB in Moscow. The reason: Decision of the 1st Department of the KGB Investigation Directorate from August 2, 1955.

[On the top, to the right] German spy

1. Last Name: Zeiss

2. Name: Heinrich

3. Patronymic Name: Ludwigovich 18

4. Year of birth: 1888

5. Place of birth: the city of Frankfurt-on-Main

6. Address: Berlin, Sigmundstrasse 5

7. Profession (speciality): medical microbiologist

8. Place of work, position: former Chief of the Military-Hygiene Institute of the [German] Naval Academy in Berlin

9. Party membership: not a member of the party

10. Nationality: a German

11. Citizenship: Germany

12. Date of the arrest: September 14, 1945

13. Type of crime:—

14. Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–6 pt. I [espionage], 58–9 [a wrecker], and 58–11 [membership in an anti-Soviet organization]

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

July 30, 1948

Person who filled out the card: V. Danilova

Organ (in charge of the arrest): 2nd Main Directorate of the MGB of the USSR

No. of the Case: 1032 [Nos. of the Corpus-Nos. of the Vladimir Prison cell, date of the transfer]

3–15

2–26; July 30, 1948

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

Date: July 10, 1948

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–6 pt. I, 58–9, and 58–11

Term: 25 years of TZ [imprisonment]

Beginning of the term: September 14, 1945

End of the term: September 14, 1970

[The prisoner] died on March 31, 1949

[There are coded letters in the middle of the top of the card: T/K]

1. Last Name: Sudoplatov

2. Name: Pavel

3. Patronymic Name: Anatolievich

4. Year of birth: 1907

5. Place of birth: the city of Melitopl, the Ukrainian SSR

6. Address: Moscow, Markhlevskogo Str., 9, ap. 3

7. Profession (speciality): a worker of the MVD organs

8. Place of work, position: Head of the 9th Department of the 2nd Main Directorate

9. Party membership: former member of the USSR Communist Party

10. Nationality: a Ukrainian

11. Citizenship: USSR

12. Date of the arrest: August 8, 1953

13. Type of crime: treason of the Motherland

14. Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 17–58–1b

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

September 9, 1958

Person who filled out the card:

Organ [in charge of the case]: General Prosecutor of the USSR

No. of the Case: 493

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

2–7; September 19, 1958

2–32; August 4, 1959

2–42; March 23, 1960

2–32 [written by a pencil]

1–76; January 12, 1963 [together with Eitingon]

1–70 [written by a pencil]

2–56; May 22, 1963 [transferred to Eitingon, who had been in this cell from February 22]

2–32; June 26, 1963 [together with Eitingon; on September 17, 1963 Eitingon was taken away from this cell and put back on November 2, 1963; finally Eitingon was released on March 20, 1964]

2–43; August 26, 1965

2–22; December 17, 1965

Convicted by: Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court

Date: September 12, 1958

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 17–58–1b [treason of the Motherland] along with 51–9k

Term: 15 years of imprisonment and 3 years of disfranchisement of political rights

Beginning of the term: August 21, 1953

End of the term: August 21, 1968

[The prisoner] arrived from Inner [Lubyanka] Prison of the KGB under the USSR Council of Ministers, Moscow, on September 19, 1958.

On June 7, 1953 [the prisoner] was released after serving his term of punishment and went to the place of residence in the town of Pokrov, Vladimir Region (the address of his relatives is: Moscow, Koroleva Str., 9, ap. 239)

[On the top, to the right] scientific worker

Last Name: Parin

Name: Vasilii

Patronymic Name: Vasilievich

Year of birth: 1903

Place of birth: the city of Kazan

Address: Moscow, Serafimovicha Str., 2, ap. 148

Place of work: the USSR Medical Academy of Sciences, Secretary Academician

Nationality: a Russian

Citizenship: USSR

Convicted by: Special Board of the MGB (OSO)

Date: April 8, 1948

Paragraphs of the UK [Criminal Code]: 58–1a (treason of the Motherland) with confiscation of the personal property

Term: 25 years of imprisonment

Date of the arrival in Vladimir Prison: July 30, 1948

On October 29, 1953 [the prisoner] was transferred to Inner [Lubyanka] Prison of the MVD in Moscow

Note: American spy

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