Date: 1921-02-14
Source: ru:ND

T. Sklyansky!

Immediately, have it encrypted with the utmost care—retain the original in your possession—and dispatch Smilga to stand by the telegraph apparatus himself and personally decode the message.

[Do not show this to the Supreme Commander1*]

Stalin will send Ordzhonikidze himself.

Thus, exercise triple and extreme caution—under your personal responsibility.

November 14.

Lenin.

Please return all of this.

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Once again, I urge you to redouble your efforts to maintain strict secrecy and to personally verify everything yourself.

Published (Doc. 17244) – The Trotsky Papers. 1917–1922. Vol. II, p. 376.

Fund 2, Inventory 1, Docs. 17244, 17245 – autograph.

1* S.S. Kamenev.

1The notes refer to measures designed to ensure the highest level of confidentiality when transmitting to I.T. Smilga and G.K. Ordzhonikidze the directives of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) regarding the XI Army’s role in establishing Soviet power in Georgia.

For the directives of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) dated February 14 and 15, 1921, see: Lenin, V.I., Complete Collected Works, vol. 52, p. 71.