ABSTRACT
Chekist agents were involved in both the investigation and the show trial, but the OGPU is mentioned in neither the trial nor the press in connection with the murder of the Pavlik Morozov children. Bykov was inaccurate. His subordinate, Special Branch Assistant Commissioner Spiridon Kartashov, took up the case for the OGPU on September 13, as is obvious from another document. The strangest thing about the secret document, however, is the date: September 4, 1932. In 1932, the OGPU district apparatus received secret orders to find out who in the villages was anti-Soviet and who were against collectivization. The murderers named were the very persons of anti-Soviet persuasion later to be executed; for the time being they were unaware they had killed two children. In reality, however, they were secret OGPU agents providing kindling for igniting the conflict between Germany and Poland.
