Stalin to Boytsov on the investigation of the facts of illegal actions of the NKVD officers. December 12, 1938

A source: Lubyanka. Stalin and the Main Department of State Security of the NKVD. Stalin's archive. Documents of the supreme bodies of party and state power. 1937-1938. - M .: MFD, 2004, p. 629.
Archive: RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11.D. 58.L. 64. Original. Typescript.

December 12, 1938

No. 1364 / sh

Eagle. Secretary of the regional committee Boytsov
I received your message about the false testimony of the six arrested. Similar reports are received from different places, as well as complaints against the former People's Commissar Yezhov that, as a rule, he did not respond to such signals. These complaints were one of the reasons for Yezhov's removal. Your message has been forwarded to the NKVD for urgent investigation.

Stalin