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Letter to Dmitry Kursky, May 12, 1921
| Author(s) | Lenin |
|---|---|
| Written | 12 May 1921 |
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, page 144a.
Top secret
Comrade Kursky, People’s Commissariat for Justice
A petition No. 8086, dated 10.V.1921, enclosed in copy, has been received at the CLD from the representative extraordinary for the supply of the Red Army and Navy, revealing strictly confidential information on the numerical strength of the Army. With a better choice of wording, the petition could have avoided giving information on the numerical strength of the Army. Besides, the correspondence did not arrive in a secret envelope or by messenger but was sent by post. As a result it was opened at the inregister of the managing department, and could have been made public in transit through the post.
Please conduct an inquiry.[1]
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars
- ↑ On May 19, 1921, P. A. Krasikov, a member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Justice, who had been conducting an inquiry into the case on D. I. Kursky’s instructions, proposed that a reprimand (with publication in the press) should be issued to N. B. Eismont, Deputy Chairman of Chusosnabarm (see Note 678), that Comrade Angert, who was at the special disposal of Chusosnabarm and who was directly to blame for dispatching the letter to the C.L.D., containing the secret information, without taking the necessary precautions, should be dismissed, and that a disciplinary penalty should be applied to the secretary who had sent out the letter to the C.L.D.