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KNOWLEDGE
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Copyright 2001 by Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
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Hardcover edition first published in 2001 in the United States of America by Westview Press.
Paperback edition first published in 2004 in the United States of America by Westview Press.
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ISBN-13 978-0-8133-4280-1 (pbk.); eBook-ISBN-9780786751860 (pbk.)
There is only one hope... it is absolute openness and theabsence of any secrecy in science. Only thus can we hope thatthe scientists who succeed will be those who do not confuseexceptional human beings with experimental animals.
B. Mller-Hill, Murderous Science
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last ofthe human freedomsto choose ones attitude in any given setof circumstances, to choose ones own way.
V. Frankl, Mans Search for Meaning
Main changes in the NKVD/KGB structure, 1917present
List of the VCheKa/KGB chairmen, 1917present
Changes in subordination of Special Secret Laboratory No. 1, 19391978
Dates of Mairanovskys biography
Events surrounding the Beria and Merkulov trials
| Dalstroi | Main Directorate for Building in the Far East |
| EKO | Economical Department |
| FAPSI | Federal Government Communications and Information Agency |
| FSB | Federal Security Service |
| GEU | Main Economic Directorate |
| Gidroproekt | Directorate for Projecting, Planning, and Research |
| GKO | State Committee of Defense |
| Glavgidrostroi | Main Directorate of Camps for Hydrotechnical Construction |
| Glavlit | Main Directorate on the Literature and Publishing Houses |
| Glavmikrobioprom | Main Administration of the Microbiological Industry |
| Glavpromstroi, | Main Directorate of Camps for Industrial |
| or GULPS | Construction |
| Glavsortupr | Main Directorate of Seed Varieties |
| Goelro | State Energy Committee |
| Gosizdat | State Publishing Company |
| GosNIIOKhT | State Scientific Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology |
| Gosplan | State Planning Committee |
| GPU | State Political Directorate |
| GTU | Main Directorate of Transportation |
| GUGB | Main Directorate of State Security |
| GUILGMP | Main Directorate of Camps of the Mining Metallurgic Industry |
| IEB | Institute of Experimental Biology |
| IEM | Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology |
| IMEMO | Institute for World Economy and International Relations |
| INO | Foreign Department |
| IVAN | Institute for Oriental Studies |
| JAC | Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee |
| KEPS | Commission for the Study of Natural-Productive Forces |
| KGB | Committee of State Security |
| KI | Committee on Information |
| KTPH | Kazan Psychiatric Prison Hospital |
| KUBU | Commission to Improve Living Conditions of Scientists |
| MGB | USSR Ministry of State Security |
| Minmedbioprom | Ministry of the Medical and Microbiological Industries |
| MOIP | Moscow Society of Naturalists |
| Narkompros | Commissariat of Education |
| Narkomzdrav | Commissariat of Health |
| Narkomzem | Commissariat of Agriculture |
| NEP | New Economic Policy |
| NKVD | Peoples Commissariat of the Interior |
| NTO | Scientific Technology Section of the VSNKh |
| NTS | Popular Labor Alliance of Russian Solidarists |
| OAU | VCheKa Administrative-Organizational Department |
| OGPU | United State Political Directorate |
| OMNI | Society of Moscow Scientific Institute |
| OO | Special Department |
| OOT | Department of Operational Equipment |
| OSO | MGB Special Board |
| OSS | Office of Strategic Services |
| OTU | Operational-Technical Directorate |
| OVD | Department for Investigation of Especially Important Cases |
| PBO | Petrograd Armed Organization |
| Politotdel | Political Department |
| RFYaTs-VNIITF | Russian Federation Nuclear Center |
| RNP | Russian National Party |
| ROVS | White Russian Military Union |
| RSFSR | Russian Federation |
| SMERSH | Military Counterintelligence |
| SO | Secret Department |
| SOD | Council of Men in Public Life |
| SOE | Special Operation Executive |
| SOU | Secret-Operational Directorate |
| Sovinformburo | Soviet Information Agency |
| Sovmin | Council of Ministers |
| Sovnarkom | Council of Peoples Commissars |
| StB | Czechoslovak Security Service |
| SVR | Foreign Intelligence Service |
| TKP | Labor Peasant Party |
| TseKUBU | Central Commission to Improve Living Conditions of Scientists |
| TsNIIST | Central Scientific Investigation Institute for Special Technology |
| VARNITSO | All-Union Association of Workers of Science and Technique to Assist the Socialist Construction |
| VASKhNIL | All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, or Agricultural Academy |
| VCheKa | All-Russian Extraordinary Commission |
| VIEM | All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine |
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