I very much fear that under the NKVD this will be a bureaucratic institution, not enjoying the confidence of the population. Why not try, nevertheless, to take the same money and the same forces that the NKVD has and transfer them to the NCPT, where this will be a publicly accessible information bureau? In principle, it is wrong to have it in the NKVD. In principle, it is necessary to have it in the NCPT.

I ask you to consider this once again and, in case of disagreement, submit it to the large Council of People's Commissars.²

11/VI [1921]
Lenin