25.V. 1920

Comrade Sklyansky!

I request that you give the bearer, Comrade Belenky (from the Cheka), all mandates or letters, if necessary, — to all artillery warehouses, institutions, weapons stocks, powder, etc., for the verification of their security in the district of Silver Forest and the environs of Moscow.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the Council of Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin)