DOCUMENT № 4
Cipher Telegram to Nikita Khrushchev Concerning the Arrest of Jerzy Matusiński, dated 1 October 1939
PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE UKRAINIAN SSR
EX. No. __________ Copying Prohibited TOP SECRET
CIPHER TELEGRAM Outgoing No. 3149
“___” _____ 193_ Received at the Cipher Bureau [ShB] on “1 October” year 1939 at “4:20 am”
Not classified
Act No. 24/2-609 dated 22 February 1913
From: Kyiv, NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR
To: Moscow, NKVD of the USSR, Comrade Beria
In accordance with the directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party(b) of Ukraine, Comrade Khrushchev,[1] at 1:30 am this morning, I arrested the Polish Consul Matusiński and the chauffeurs Łyczek and Orszyński, who were with him.
I request instructions regarding the remaining personnel of the consulate.
Gorlinsky
(signature)
Released copies: No. 1, 2 – to the Cipher Bureau of the NKVD UkrSSR; No. 3 – to _____; No. 4 – to __.
Encrypted by ________ [signature] 1 Oct. 1939, 4.35 am, “_” words, “41” groups.
Secretary
SSA SBU, f. 16, op. 1, spr. 368, ark. 256.
[1] Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971): Soviet statesman and party leader; First Secretary of the TsK KPSS (1953–1964) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1958–1964). In 1938–1949, he held senior positions in Ukraine, serving as First Secretary of the TsK KPU(b), and simultaneously as a member of the Politburo of the TsK of the All-Union Communist Party (b).
