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...confession" and the carefully controlled outcry were to be expected. What was new was the publication of a list of Beria's alleged accomplices: a who's who of Communist cops. Apparently Beria's group had taken advantage of Stalin's death to establish the MVD as a private enterprise of their own. But in the labyrinthine complexity of Soviet "monolithic" leadership, no such separation of powers can be permitted: Russia's elaborate intertwining of soldiers, party, commissars and secret police is designed to prevent such coups. Beria's apparatus had to be eliminated...
Last month the commissars of Leningrad, Armenia and Tula disappeared. More recently the Minister of Agriculture, Ivan Benediktov, was publicly denounced. Last week's announcement named six ministers and MVD generals to stand trial with Beria on charges of "high treason." They were all of Cabinet rank...
...VOLODZIMIRSKY, the major general in charge of MVD's "vitally important matters section...
SERGEI A. GOCLIDZE, MVD boss of the Siberian regions...
VSEVOLOD N. MERKULOV, the MVD's top-ranking spy catcher...