TO COMMISSAR OF STATE SECURITY 3 RANK

Com. LIUSHKOV

In connection with the questions posed to me by the investigation I wish to add to my previous confessions the following:

1. In the summer of 1932 the Trotskyite part of the united Trotskyite-Zinovievite center (SMIRNOV, MRACHKOVSKII) insisted with especial energy on an immediate transition to terror, in the first place against STALIN.

They insisted with determination that Trotsky’s directive on that point was completely timely and true. I.N. Smirnov personally talked with me twice about this, convincingly and heatedly defending this directive of Trotsky’s. I told KAMENEV and EVDOKIMOV about this even before our meeting in Il’inskoe in the summer of 1932.

2. After KAREV’S arrest since 1933 the matter of organizing of terrorist acts in Leningrad was transferred to the Zinovievite M. IAKOVLEV, about which this had been preliminary agreed with KAREV.

In 1934 it was assigned by the united center to KAMENEV to meet in Leningrad with IAKOVLEV. KAMENEV fulfilled this in the summer of 1934 and at that time I told KAMENEV that it was necessary to give the control and general leadership of this action to BAKAEV.

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3. KAMENEV informed me in November 1934 that he had met with BAKAEV who had just returned from Leningrad and who informed him that he (BAKAEV) had met in Leningrad with LEVIN, RUMIANTSEV, KATALYNOV, and I think MANDEL’SHTAM. At this meeting was decided the question about where and when to murder Kirov. Nikolaev, the murderer of Kirov, with whom BAKAEV spoke, was at that meeting. [Emphasis added, GF]

BAKAEV familiarized himself in detail with the state of the prepration of the terrorist act against Kirov and finally sanctioned the attempt in the name of the united Trotskyite-Zinovievite center.

4. From EVDOKIMOV, who was the contact person between myself and BAKAEV, I learned about two attempts on Stalin’s life in Moscow in 1934, which had been prepared by BAKAEV’S group in fulfillment of the decision of the united Trotskyite-Zinovievite center.

DREITSER, REINGOL’D, and PIKEL’ took part in these attempts.

Both attempts were abandoned because the terrorists came to the conclusion that they were being followed.

5. In addition to what I have already confessed about SOKOL’NIKOV I would add that he also took a direct part in the discussion and decision of the question concerning the preparation for the attempt against the leaders of the Party and government. KAMENEV maintained direct contact with SOKOL’NIKOV.

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6. The Trotskyite-Zinovievite center assigned in 1933-34 persons in reserve, who were to continue the work of the center in the case of the downfall of the first staff.

In this group of people were: SOKOL’NNIKOV, SEREBRIAKOV, RADEK, and PIATAKOV. They also relied upon PREOBRAZHENSKII Evgenii.

7. I arranged with KAMENEV that KAMENEV would assign to REINGOL’D the creation of a monetary fund abroad for the needs of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite organization. Afterwars KAMENEV said to me that REINGOL’D was doing this through ARKUS and that this fund had been established.

8. In addition to what I have already confessed about the Rights, I must add the following: In reality we were in a bloc with them before our arrest in 1934.

I told TOMSKII about the creation of the united Trotskyite-Zinovievite center and its terrorist directives, and he promised to inform “his people”. Both they and we considered the formal entry of the Rights into the united center to be premature, we believed that while TOMSKII, RYKOV, and BUKHARIN were in the CC it would be better that they support us from within, when the decisive moment arrived. But in essence they were with us wholeheartedly and shared all our decisions.

G. Zinoviev

X VIII – 36 g.