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DOCUMENT № 6

List of Persons Involved in the Operation to Abduct Jerzy Matusiński, dated 1 October 1939

REFERENCE NOTE

Not classified

Act No. 24/2-609 dated 22 February 1913

 

 

The following comrades participated in or were informed of the ­operation carried out on the night of 30 September – early morning of 1 October of the current year:

Gromovenko: Head of the Third Department

Zavgorodny: Head of the Third Special Department

Tverdokhlebenko: Head of the Department of the Economic Directorate (EKU)

Zhelai: Deputy Head of the Third Special Department

Drumashko: Operations Officer of the Third Department

Levenets: Head of the Fifth Department

Bessonov: Acting Head of a Section within the Third Department

Donskoi: Head of a Section within the Third Special Department

Korolyov: Senior Operations Officer, Third Department

Falkovsky:[1] Deputy Head of a Section within the Third Department

Voloshin: Senior Operations Officer, Third Special Department

Maslov: driver and intelligence officer

Onishchenko: driver and intelligence officer

Malyshev: intelligence officer

Polishchuk: intelligence officer

Zenin: intelligence officer

Svetlov: intelligence officer

Dobrolyubov: intelligence officer

Ivanovsky: Head of the Reconnaissance Group

Sokolova: intelligence officer

 

Non-disclosure pledges attached.

Head of the Third Department of the Directorate of State Security (UGB) NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR

Senior Lieutenant of State Security

                                            Signature

(Gromovenko)

1 October 1939

21.     Timofeyev

22.     Udovichenko

23.     aM–ra

24.     Intelligence officer

25.     iTimoshenkoi

26.     Warden

 

SSA SBU, f. 16, op. 1, spr. 368, ark. 236

 


[1]      Veniamin Falkovsky (1908–1942): lieutenant, Soviet State Security officer. Starting 1933, he served in the OGPU–NKVD. Starting September 1939, he held the position of Deputy Head of the Third (Counterintelligence) Department of the Directorate of State Security within the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR. Falkovsky was reported missing in action at the Soviet–German front on 8 August 1942.

Author:Konstantin Boguslavsky

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