V. I.

Lenin

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To:   FIT [1]

16/XII.

Your letter of November 15 received.

I. It was written in a code unknown to us, but we
deciphered it all with the exception of the addresses. (Code only by
complete sentences, otherwise the key is very easy to discover.) Repeat the
addresses....

III. The committee should he joined without fail and agitation conducted within it to persuade it to affiliate with the
all-Russia organisation. At the same time the Southern League should be
influenced in the same direction. The existence of two organisations in the
same city is not normal, [3] and they should eventually merge and form an Iskra
committee; how to do it is, of course, up to you.

( It goes without saying that the merger should take place only if our
victory is assured. Otherwise it is better to wait, preserving the organisation which supports Iskra and undermining
the other from within. [2]

)

IV. Re the Organising Committee.

V. We have been informed that some consignment of
Iskra was intercepted in Odessa. What happened?