V. I.

Lenin

151

To:   E. M. SKLYANSKY

Top secret
16. VIII. 1918

Comrade Sklyansky

I am enclosing herewith Comrade Vorovsky’s letter, with
documents attached to it (registered in the Managing
Department of the C.P.C. 16. VIII. 1918 as No. 2509), and
I ask you to pay the most serious attention to the abuse and
crime revealed here. [1]

It is necessary to appoint a very limited number of the
most reliable and experienced comrades (if possible, not
more than two or three), including one from the
Extraordinary Commission, to carry out through such a secret
commission of inquiry the strictest investigation , at first in
absolute secrecy, in order (1) to discover the usual manner
in which business is conducted in the institution concerned,
(2) to trace the connections of the counter-revolutionary
criminals and (3) to arrest all of them, allowing none to
escape.

Report to me regularly on fulfilment.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, C.P.C.