THE SPECIAL COUNCIL (OSOBOYE SOVESHCHANIYE) OF THE MVD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400610008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT The Special Council (Osoboyee
Soveshchaniye) of the NVD .
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1. The Special Council (080, Osobo Savasheha ) Of the WD was an outgrowth of the
troikas which were active during he purges o the thirties and in- 1939 were
finally liquidated. . 080 of the NKVD had begun to operate in 1937 or
1938. There was no separate 080 for the State Security services until
Abakumov became head of the NOB. He felt that the 060 of the NVD was
prejudiced in checking NCB cases and that the decisions of the council
reflected unsatisfactorily on his organization.
2. The OSO was composed of the minister, his deputies, and several chiefs
of directorates who did not sit in permanent session. The real working
body of the OSO was the Secretariat of the 060, consisting of a chief and
some investigators. The Chief of the Secretariat did not have the authority
to make or to carry out any sentences, but was charged merely with pre-
paring the cases and with presenting them in final form to the 060 for
consideration.
3. The Chief of the Secretariat was the first one to receive a case. After
familiarizing himself with all the pertinent data, he turned the case
over to an investigator for study and recommendations. The investigator made
his own recommendation as to the sentence and indicated whether the case
should be tried by the 080 or should be transferred to a military tribunal.
If. the case were tried by the 050, the minister or his deputy would meet
with the other deputies and the chiefs of directorates. The Chief
of the Secretariat ad the investigator were then called before the members
of the OSO to report on the case, the agency involved, and the individual.
The OSO decided whether the person deserved to be punished and, if so, what
sentence should be imposed. The decision was final and there was no
appeal. The accused was not present when the OSO passed sentence. The
individual concerned was informed that he had been sentenced by the OSO,
and was told the charge and the sentence. The case file was then for-
warded by the Chief of the Secretariat to what is now the First Special
Section (Spets Otdel), where it was recorded that the O60 had sentenced
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the individual to serve so many years for certain offenses or to be
executed. The file was kept in the spats Otdel Archives and the Spats
Otdel decided where the prisoner would be sent, although the Secretariat
sometimes prescribed to what camp he would go.
4. Cases were tried by the OSO instead of A. military tribunal when referral to
the tribunal would compromise the identity of the agents who had supplied
the evidence or would bare the operational methods of the MVD.
5. Following the discontinuance of the Special Council procedure of handling
extra-legal MVD cases, and the inactivation of the Secretariat of the
Special Council, MVD, in August 1953, a small section of seven persons
was formed from among the staff of the Special Council Secretariat. The
function of the new section,which was subordinate to the First Special
Section,was primarily to review the complaints of the relatives of persons
tried and convicted under the former Special Council procedure.