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The NKVD and the People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB) effectively took full control over the initially weak coordination of the investigation.

The birth and persistence of the Katyn lie

mobilizuotas i Raudonaja armija, o tiksliau--i specialuji NKVD filtravimo lageri.

Izidorius liesis: a scientist and a teacher/Izidorius liesis--mokslininkas, pedagogas

The CIA study said that "the contrived accident is the most effective technique," since "when successfully executed, .it is only casually investigated." Wilcox adds that "assassinations using traffic accidents and hospitals--or both--were known methods of NKVD murder at the time Patton died." He refers to several examples given by Dr.

Target: Patton--The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton

The NKVD was a brutal Soviet police organization with no limits placed on its power to control, punish, and kill Soviet citizens for dissent; during WWII, even heroic Soviet soldiers were suspected of disloyalty.

Stalin's secret war; the NKVD on the Eastern front

She includes some unsung heroes - the prisoners, the Soviet doctor who discovers their deplorable conditions, and even an officer of the NKVD. Lina's youthful innocence and her inability to anticipate the malicious intent of the NKVD keeps readers engaged.

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"I think [Jones] was set on by the NKVD and it was they who effectively ordered his death," he said.

Was Welsh journalist killed for defying Stalin's orders? He was the pioneering journalist who exposed the deaths of 10 million people at the hands of Stalin's regime. Now, investigative reporter John Sweeney tells Aled Blake he will never give up trying to find the killer of former Western Mail journalist Gareth Jones

Martha Dodd's Soviet lover was recruiting rather than courting her, and she became an active and enthusiastic NKVD agent, probably by early 1934.

In the Garden of Beasts

Stalin's NKVD was primarily responsible for carrying out the dictator's repression and purges in the 1930s.

Russia's secret police to get Stalin's henchmen's 'long black leather coats'

This journey takes Nowak through the bombed-out buildings and sewers of Warsaw to the streets of London, and into the remote forests of the Trata Mountains as he races to keep one step ahead of the NKVD. Polish by birth, American by upbringing, and allied with the British government, Nowak moves fluidly between many of the war's most dynamic fronts.

The Katyn Order

The pain of the tragedy echoed across the world as disbelieving Poles watched the region where the Soviet NKVD massacred more than 20,000 Polish officers in 1940 come back to haunt them again.

One year on, grieving Poles pray at site of Russia crash

There General Secretary Joseph Stalin's secret police, the NKVD, maintained a retreat on the grounds of an old monastery.

The aftermath of the Katyn massacre: silent as the grave

It was clear to him that a memoir written by a former NKVD employee in the Gulag was still off-limits.

Found in translation: on a research trip to Moscow in the late 1990s, Deborah Kaple was given a package of papers by a former Gulag official who believed its contents would be of great interest to a western audience