V. I.

Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. on The Activities of the Committee of Inquiry Under the Petrograd Soviet

Meeting of 21.I.1918

Having heard the report of the commission investigating the
Committee of Inquiry, the C.P.C. resolves:

That two extra members be added to the commission, one of them Comrade
Algasov, the other a Bolshevik recommended by Sverdlov.

That the commission be given the right to make searches, seizures and
arrests without preliminary arrangements with any other institutions.

That the commission be given technical facilities and the right to draw
on funds provided by the Commissariat for Justice.

That the commission be asked to work faster and more energetically in
order to single out more quickly those whose innocence, in view of the
slanderous nature of the accusations against them, is now obvious. [1]

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Notes:
[1]
This document bears Lenin’s note: “Adopted unanimously”. The decision
of the C.P.C. in a slightly different wording was published in
Izvestia No. 17 on January 23 (February 5), 1918.