V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v21;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

ON THE INVESTIGATIVE COMMISSION ATTACHED TO THE PETROGRAD SOVIET.
DRAFT DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS.
[February 3] January 21, 1918.

At the session of January 21, 1918,

Having heard the report of the Investigative Commission on the Investigative Commission, the Council of People's Commissars decrees:

To augment the Commission by two members, namely, Comrade Algasov and one Bolshevik, to be designated by Sverdlov.

To grant the Commission the right to conduct searches, seizures and arrests, without prior communication with any institution whatsoever in this connection.

To place at the Commission's disposal the necessary technical facilities and to open a credit from the funds of the Commissariat of Justice.

To request the Commission to work more speedily and energetically, so that the guilt of some and the innocence of others, who have become victims of clearly unscrupulous denunciations, may be established as soon as possible.

Adopted unanimously.