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September 22, 1937

Concerning Travel of the Civil Air Fleet to Xinjiang

[handwritten]: MINUTES Nº 53 of the

Politburo meeting of 21 September 1937

[handwritten at the top of the page: point 125 is in classified storage].

 

[…]

 

[Politburo decision of]

22 September 1937

 

125. Concerning Xinjiang.

 

Charge the Main Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet with immediately sending one transport aircraft to Urumqi to make several trips between Urumqi and Kashgar in coordination with the NKID and NKVD.

 

Excerpts have been sent:

 

to Cdes. Tkachev, Potemkin, and Yezhov.

 

[…]

 

 

 

The Politburo orders the Civil Air Fleet to send a transport aircraft to make several trips between Urumqi and Kashgar in coordination with the NKID and NKVD.


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Source

RGASPI F.17 op. 162, d. 20 l.8. Obtained by Jamil Hasanli and translated by Gary Goldberg.

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2015-04-02

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