Beria Lavrenti

1899 – 1953

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to J. Stalin about German aerial bombardments of cities and military and civil targets on Polish territory

2 September 1939

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 50, fold. 410, ff. 5–8.

Original

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov with the remarks of the Finnish military attaché in the USSR K. Somerto about the reception of the Finnish delegation in the Kremlin, mobilisation in Finland, and German policies

14 October 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1240, ff. 83–86.

Original

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov about the secret redeployment of Franco-British troops to the Middle East

4 November 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1242, f. 124.

Original

Cipher telegram from Helsinki to the 5th Red Army Directorate regarding Finland’s refusal to make concessions and continue talks with the USSR

17 November 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 332, f. 3.

Certified copy

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov about the collection by French secret services of information about the topography, roads, and natural hindrances of Transcaucasian Soviet republics

14 December 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1242, f. 146.

Original

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov about the collaboration of émigré Caucasian highlanders with French military intelligence and the striving of some French senators to speed up the attack of allied forces on Soviet Transcaucasia

22 March 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, f. 85.

Original

Message from People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko about the defeat of the British expeditionary force in Belgium, the decisions of the French command, and the activities of German armoured divisions and planes

19 May 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1302, f. 140.

Original

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko about Germany’s role in the fate of the Baltic countries, the activisation of German and military Fascist organisations in Lithuania, and rumours of the inevitable military conflict between Germany and the USSR

2 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, ff. 173–175.

Original

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko about the start of the general evacuation of Paris due to the rapid advance of German troops

10 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1302, f. 164.

Original

Cipher telegram from Berlin to the 5th Red Army Directorate about the attitude of foreign military attachés to the transfer of German troops from West to East, the interest of Germans in Eastern Europe, and their possible actions against the USSR and Great Britain (with an attached note from the 5th Red Army Directorate)

11 July 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 693, ff. 85–93.

Cipher telegram – certified copy, note – original