Beria Signed Documents.

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Document with Beria signature:

Typed document signed as “L Beria” in red pencil as Commissar of Interior Affair, dated October 12, 1938 (right in the midle of purges!!!"

1 page, 8”x 10”, usual fold

Document reads: "Kolustin was working on Minsk-Orsha-Vitebsk airway from September 20, 1938 . He did 8 independent flights on this line. He was responsible in doing his job. NKVD (KGB) doesn't have any compromising material for him. There were no passengers on the plane. The mail taken from Minsk was civilian, the character of which is being cleaned up. The chief of the frontier and internal NKVD forces of Byelorussian district has been given instruction to report to the Polish representative about emergency landing of the plane as a result of lost orientation and to demand the pilot and the plane back."

close-up of autograph