English Translation

1ba - 10 - Council of the Republics, the members of the District Party Committees and the Party Committee Secretariats. All events of the Government and the Communist Party, such as meetings, conferences, etc., are also secured by this department. The head of this department is personally determined by the People's Commissioner of the Interior. The other members of the department are made up of strictly reliable party members. To 2 b) The Department of External Observation- OPEROD, it has to monitor individuals and groups of persons who are suspected of working against the Soviet regime. All observations and investigations are carried out centrally also for all other employees. Members of the Division may also be employed outside their place of employment. "official" and "secret" scouts are present. The official members of the Department who regularly perform their duties in the premises are to be considered. Secret spies are directly under the direction of the head of the department. Sis are always used for special contracts and may only enter the offices in exceptional cases. The secret spies are known even to the official members of the individual departments only in the rarest cases. When foreigners enter the Soviet Union, they are received inconspicuously by secret spies at the border and during the train journey 40436