English Translation

SV - 13 to determine whether spies and divers are among them. The surveillance is carried out by the same spy system. Another important task of the INO is the follow-up work abroad. To this end, members of the INO are seconded to the diplomatic missions of the Soviet Union with the task of establishing and maintaining a follow-up service abroad. They are all members of GUGB who are specially trained and trained for these purposes. Officially, members of the INO are issued as members of diplomatic missions, but they are only active for dep intelligence. Also, the supervision of diplomatic representations in the Soviet Union is carried out by INO. It is by all means and partly. With success tried to recruit suitable personnel among the relatives of the foreign representatives as agents. All material procured abroad is forwarded to the INO in Moscow and passed on from there to the competent authorities. In the departments themselves, special "investigators" are involved, who have to pay particular attention to the fact that the work of the INO does not lead to diplomatic involvement with other states because of this activity. All INO members in the main administration must be appointed by the head of the GUGB. M e r k u l o w /