CC CPSU REPORT, ABOUT SOME RESULTS OF PREVENTIVE-PROPHYLACTIC WORK OF THE STATE SECURITY ORGANS
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The Committee for State Security reported on actions taken to increase preventive-prophylactic work for preventing crimes against the Soviet Union. The Committee cites drops in the number of people subjected to criminal punishment, severe crimes against the state, and anti-Soviet propaganda as results of strengthened morale, political awareness, policies, and preventative and prophylactic work. Attached is a table that numerically presents information in the report."CC CPSU Report, About Some Results of Preventive-Prophylactic Work of the State Security Organs," October 31, 1975, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov papers, 1887-1995, mm97083838, Reel 18, Container 28. Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya for the National Security Archive. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/121172 - Share
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Top Secret Committee CC CPSU In accordance with the decisions of the XXIV Party Congress and the CC CPSU instructions, the organs of state security have recently stepped up the preventive prophylactic work for preventing crimes against the state, [and] are trying to achieve a more correct combination of the criminal legal and prophylactic measures. The comparison between the two periods – 1959-1966 and 1967-1974 shows that the number of persons subjected to criminal punishments has fallen almost by half – from 8,664 to 4,879. In the category of some especially grave crimes against the state this number fell even more significantly: treason – from 1,467 to 773 (by half), anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda – from 2, l 03 to 729 (almost by two-thirds). The factors influencing the decrease in the numbers of crimes against the state in the recent years are the following: the further strengthening of the moral and political unity of our state, the growth of political awareness of the Soviet people, the correct punishment pol icy of the Soviet state, and the dominant role of the preventive and prophylactic work to prevent crimes. The ratio of persons subjected to criminal repression to persons subjected to the prophylactics by the KGB organs in the period of 1967-1974 was 1:25, and in the category of especially grave crimes against the state such as anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda – 1:96. The Committee for State Security is undertaking measures for further perfecting of the preventive-prophylactic work and for increasing its effectiveness. Information on the number of people subjected to criminal punishment and those subjected to prophylactics in the period of 1959-1974 is attached. Attachment: according to the text on the page 1, No. 6/4780 from 29.X.75 Chairman of the Committee for State Security [Attachment] INFORMATION 1959-62 1963-66 1967-70 1971-74 Total number of persons subjected to criminal punishment 5,413 3,251 2,456 2,423 Among them: ---for treason 1,010 457 423 350 ---for espionage 28 8 10 9 ---for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda 1,601 502 381 348 ---for contraband 47 103 183 474 --for violation of currency regulations 587 474 382 401 ---for illegal crossing of the USSR border 926 613 704 553 ---for revealing state secrets and loss of documents containing state secrets 22 31 19 18 ---for other crimes 1,003 1,011 328 258 Total [number of person subjected to] prophylactic work No statistics centralized kept 58,298 63,108 Among them: --persons, who had suspicious ties with foreigners and harboring treasonous intentions 5,039 6,310 ---persons engaging in politically harmful expressions 35,316 34,700 Subjected to prophylactics with participation of the public (total) 23,611 27,079 Among them: ---at general meetings of workers and service personnel, in peer courts, etc. 10,624 11,863 ---in the form of conversations with participation of public representatives 12,987 15,243 Official warning was issued 981 (1973-74) Subjected to punishment from the number of those previously subject to prophylactic work 100 50
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For State Security
At the USSR Council of Ministers 31 October 1975
No. 2743-A
Moscow
About Some Results of Preventive-Prophylactic Work of the State Security Organs.
[Signature] ANDROPOV
About the number of persons subjected to criminal punishment and prophylactic work by the KGB organs in 1959-1974
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