Document signed In Cyrillic, size 7.1/2” x11.1/2”, written in red pencil, signed “Davydov”, May 29, 1937, with the letterhead of The chief of Amur region NKVD. 

From: The chief of Amur region NKVD (secret police)

To: The Bureau of Amur District Committee of Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)

In a letter Davydov, the chief of Amur region NKVD (secret police) who was also the member of district bureau of communist party VKP/B is asking district Communist Party Committee to discuss comment by com. Voloshin, the other member at Party conference, about the arrest of “a big military leader” that is being held in great secret. 

Davydov also asking to discuss revealing this secret by Innovatov, other member of district bureau of communist party.

Judging from the date of the letter, a “big military leader” is Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who was arrested on May 22, and charged, along with seven other Red Army commanders with the creation of a “right-wing Trotskyist" military conspiracy espionage for Nazi Germany, based on confessions obtained from other arrested officers. 

On June 11, all of the defendants were declared guilty by military tribunal and sentenced to death. They all were executed shortly. 

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