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DOCUMENT № 7

Non-Disclosure Pledge Signed by State Security Lieutenant Veniamin Davidovich Falkovsky, dated 1 October 1939

PLEDGE

1 October 1939

Kyiv

 

I, Falkovsky, Deputy Head of the First Section within the Third Department of the Directorate of State Security of the NKVD, Ukrainian SSR, hereby give this pledge that I shall not disclose any information known to me concerning the operation carried out during the night of 1 October 1939, at the Polish Consulate in Kyiv.

I have been warned of the consequences should I disclose such information.

Signature

 

SSA SBU, f. 16, op. 1, spr. 368, ark. 245

 

Author:Konstantin Boguslavsky

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