STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). CENTRAL COMMITTEE No. P13/144 Excerpt from the minutes No. 13 of the Politburo of the Central Committee meeting Resolution 144 - March 5, 1940 regarding the matter submitted by the NKVD USSR I. To instruct the NKVD USSR that:
II. The consideration of the cases to be carried out without the convicts being summoned and without revealing the charges; with no statements concerning the conclusion of the investigation and the bills of indictment given to them. To be carried out in the following manner:
III. The responsibility for consideration of the cases and passing of the resolution to be laid on three comrades: Merkulov, Kobulov and Bashtakov (Head, 1st Special Division of the NKVD USSR). The Secretary of the C.C.
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