Note from the chairman of the OGPU V.R. Menzhinsky to I.V. Stalin

source: 

The trial of the "Industrial Party" 1930: preparation, conduct, results: in 2 vols. / resp. ed. S. A. Krasilnikov. - M .: Political Encyclopedia, 2016 .-- (Kremlin Archives)

October 2, 1930

t. Stalin

Although Kondratyev is silent about the military organization , we still get to it through a special department. Those arrested by him b. Kolchakites - Burov (one of the authors of Kolchak's coup) and Colleagues, a teacher at the Military Academy b. early operative] department [ate] of Kolchak's headquarters, according to their testimony, led a group that set itself the goal of a "palace coup" - it was noticed to make it either by helping the right, or independently. While they were busy putting together personnel. Their group included Gromanovite b. m [eshevi] k Gorodissky, former teacher of the Military Academy, Kremkov, early. headquarters of the 4th corps and Chikalin, b. with [socialist-] p [evolutsioner] early. artillery] sector of the Headquarters of RK K.

Burov and Kollegov show that their military core is associated with the organization that Gorodissky represented. The Gorodissky organization planned a government consisting of: Kondratyev - prime minister, Yurovsky - minister of finance. Gorodissky presented the program in detail at the meetings: basically, in our opinion, the program of T.K.P.

The matter is at the very beginning, Gorodissky has now been brought in, and we are afraid to take Kremkov and Chikalin in view of the case known to you; I think that on the right track, but 1) this does not exhaust all the connections of T.K.P. and the Industrial] Party; 2) on the other hand, apparently, counter-revolutionary] military groups from monarchists to former communists are linked to each other by a series of transitions.

2) The espionage of the wrecking] Center has been proven very vividly, there is a lot of data about T.K.P.

3) I beg you to read the testimony of the famous <prof.> Ramzin. In the second of them from 29 / IX-1 / X p. Mr. Ramzin tells how the industrial party (engineering] sabotage center) pursued its line in all branches of Soviet work through Rykov, Lomov and others. to give not only a complete picture of the law-damaging cover in Soviet work, but also of connections, conversations, revelations - and, presumably, some kind of political contact. No ambiguities can be tolerated here. But it goes without saying that both Kondratyev and Groman, and Ramzin, and Larichev understand the fatal significance of this topic for them and in every possible way turn away from it, referring simply to the commonality of attitudes with the right, fearing friends in the Communist Party to turn into ardent enemies. I think that during October we will still achieve the truth.

A new moment in business is terror: Ramzin had a terrorist group of young engineers. Here, as in the question of the military organization, the arrested terrorists began to confess. I am attaching the testimony of one of them Evreinov. I beg you not to send out these testimonies yet.

V. Menzhinsky

D. 353.L. 102-103. Handwritten original on ruled sheets (from a notebook), autograph of V.R.Menzhinsky. Date "2 / X 30" - by Menzhinsky's hand on L. 102, top left. At the end of the note (L. 103) in the phrase “I am enclosing the testimony of one of them Evreinov” the word “I am applying” is marked with an “x”, at the bottom of the sheet under the same sign there is a handwritten note in a different handwriting “The supplement has not been received in the archive”.