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...terrorist Artabekov was sent from Moscow to Armenia to be placed over the Cheka. This man had earned fame by executing his prisoners himself, and had killed with his own hand more than 100 officers at one time...
...German Cheka Trial, which has occupied the Supreme Court at Leipzig for several months (TIME, Feb. 23), was ended. Three Bolsheviki were condemned to death, 13 others were sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying between 6 months and 15 years for murder and conspiracy to overthrow the German Republic. When the three men heard their death sentences, they cheered for Moscow...
Before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig began the trial of 16 Communists, alleged to be members of the German Cheka,* charged with fomenting revolution in Germany...
...work. Officially, he was charged with the murder of one Rausch, a barber who had turned traitor to the German Bolsheviki. In his testimony, he admitted lying in wait several times for General von Seeckt, present head of the Reichswehr, because the Cheka had decided that he "must not only be wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades, Neumann said, had also discussed ways and means of killing the late Hugo Stinnes, because the Cheka had ordered his "elimination." He admitted having received personally $1,000 from the Soviet...
...Cheka, an extraordinary commission sitting under the Bolshevik regime to try political prisoners...