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I. History of the Okhrana
Vedomost' doznaniam, proizvodishimsia v zhandarmskikh upravleniakh Imperii po gosudarstvennym prestupleniam, 1887-1897
Obzor vaznieishikh doznanii, proizvodivshikhsia v zhandarmskikh upravleniiakh Imperii, po gosudarstvennym prestupleniiam 1892-1901
Reference sheet: See IIc for Obshchii sostav upravlenii i chinov otdel'nago korpusa zhandarmov
II. History of Okhrana abroad
a. Paris office
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See IId for letter of instructions for the reorganization of the Paris Agentura, 1913
b. European and other outposts
Reference: See operational card file by countries in XIIIf(4)
Austria-Hungary
Balkan Okhranka
Cross-reference sheet
Germany
Reference: See reports of agents Neuhaus and Woltz from 1901-1905 in VIk
Reference: See Garting's first progress report, September 1/14, 1905, in IIa, Folder 1
Italy
Scandinavia
Switzerland
Cross-reference sheet
United States
Reference: See folder on agent Patrick (Lucy) in IIIf
England
Operational and intelligence reports from case officer Litvin in London to Chief Krasil'nikov in Paris
London office (Powell and others) monthly statements of accounts, receipts, and bills 1906-1917
c. Official rosters and other publications
d. Reorganization of 1913
Reference: See Broetskii's memorandum of October 1913 for estimates of the budget of the reorganized investigation units in IVa
e. Wartime Okhrana
Cross-reference sheet
f. Termination of the Okhrana
III. Organization and structure
a. Policy and functional responsibility
Cross-reference sheet
b. Okhrana chiefs and case officers
Cross-reference sheet
c. Officials and clerical personnel
Cross-reference sheet
d. Use of diplomatic and other status
Reference: See also file Vg, "Relations with missions abroad"
e. Investigation agents and teams - French and other European
Rosters of non-Russian agents: investigators, detectives, and surveillance personnel engaged by the Okhrana abroad 1905-1913
Agent dossiers 1887-1914
Bittard-Couvrat
David-Fontaine
Hennequin-Lavallée
Leuthold-Richard
Rime-Woltz
Collected instructions from Bittard-Monin's office in Paris to his subordinate agents 1912
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See Bittard-Monin's manuscript, "La Confédération générale du travail," 1914, in XVIIs
Reference: For reports from Charlotte Bullier and Burtsev's letters to her, see XVIId
f. Deep cover agents
Typed abstracts in English on 215 deep cover agents (sekretnie sotrudniki)
Duplicates
Four alphabetical lists of secret agents
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For telegram on agent Mikheev, see XIIIb(2), folder 4
Reference: For the case of agent "Valerian" (Ginsberg) see IIf, folder 12
Reference: For a collection of reports of agent Kokochinskii ("Gretchen") on Russian and Polish Social Democratic parties, see XIIIa
Reference: For operational reports of Litvin, chief of the London agentura, handling agents "Niel," "Ney," "Weber," and "Simens," 1915-1916, see IIb, folders 7-10
Reference: For letters and raw reports in French, Polish, and Russian by agents in London, 1891-1902, see XIIIa
g. Cover firms
Reference: For Broetskii's memorandum recommending the establishment of a cover firm (1913), see IId, folder 6
Reference: For operational reports of Invernizzi's investigation agency in Italy (1914-1915), see IIIe, folder 14
IV. Administrative
a. Budget and financial management
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See operational card index for references to financial accounting at the Paris Okhrana office
b. Salaries, subsidies, rewards, decorations
Cross-reference sheet
c. Expense accounts
Cross-reference sheet
d. Receipts and check stubs
e. Correspondence on procedures, instructions, from Headquarters
Cross-reference sheet
V. Liaison
a. Policy of the Tsarist regime with regard to national and international security systems
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For excerpts from the text of the secret agreement on anarchists in St. Petersburg with Germany, Austria, Denmark, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, and Bulgaria, see Circular No. 3806 (1904) in XIIId(1), no. 9
b. Relations with the French Sûreté
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For receipts for decorations, signed by French officials, see IVb
Reference: See outgoing telegram, April 16, 1904, reporting that Delcasse has given information about a possible assassination attempt on a Russian minister, in XIIIb(2), folder 3.
c. Relations with Scotland Yard
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7
Reference: For agent Farce's reports from London on penetration of Scotland Yard by the Okhrana in 1905, see VIIIa
Reference: For agent Thorpe's letters from London on cooperation with the London police, 1907-1908, see VIIIa
Reference: For cooperation with Scotland Yard on the Houndsditch robbery by the anarchists, see XVIb(5), folder 1
d. Relations with the German Sicherheit
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See incoming 1904 telegram commenting on an article in Petite République denying any role in the arrests of socialists in Germany; in XIIIc(3); folder 16
Reference: For intelligence reports on arms shipments from Germany, 1906, see XXIVh
e. Relations with the Italian Sicurezza
Cross-reference sheet
Austria
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7
Belgium
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7
Reference: See report from the Russian consulate in Antwerp, February 4, 1905, in Vg.
Switzerland
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7
Reference: For address book of foreign security officials, see Va, folder 7
Reference: For two letters sent from Sambain reporting on his talks with security chiefs in Stockholm, in June 1916, see XIc(1)
Reference: For responses in "Free Russia" and other press to the pending United States-Russia pact on the extradition of terrorists, 1893, see XVIa
g. Relations with missions abroad
Cross-reference sheet
VI. Personnel administration: agents
a. Recruitment of agents: Russian nationals
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 30, April 24, 1903, regarding the hiring of agents by Okhrana offices, in XIIIc(2), folder 2
b. Recruitment of agents: foreign nationals
Cross-reference sheet
c. Blackmail in recruitment
d. Handling of agents
Instructions, operational notes, and other materials for agents in France and other countries
Receipts for agent expenditures and travel accounts 1910-1917
Reference: See operational card index for references to dispatches pertaining to the handling of agents
Reference: See directive circulars, in XIIId(1)
Reference: See commendations and criticisms of the behavior of agent Henry Bint in IIIe, folder 3
e. Backstopping of agents, verification
Reference: See IIIf, folder 13, on agent Dolin ("Lenin," "Charles")
f. Training and placement of agents
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 50, September 11, 1903, regarding the procedures to be followed in assigning agents on various missions, in XIIId(2), folder 2
g. Evaluation of agent information
Cross-reference sheet
h. Checking on agents with regard to security, behavior, veracity
Dispatches and other materials on the surveillance of agent Model traveling to Russia in 1914; the Leone-Fontana scandal in 1912; agent Nobel's checking on the story that the revolutionaries intended to use airplanes; instructions forbidding agents to make statements of any connection with the Russian embassy
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For two dispatches from Krasil'nikov in 1915-1916 criticizing case officer Litvin on handling deep cover agents, see IIIb
i. Informers
Cross-reference sheet
j. General collection of information prepared by non-Russian agents
1912
Cross-reference sheet
k. Important non-Russian agents
Reports organized by agent
Farce, E. 1892-1907
Jollivet, Georges (Roberts), his son Raoul, and his wife 1911-1916
Berlin Agentura, with Neuhaus, Prodeus, and Woltz under case officer Barkov 1901-1905
Reference: See outgoing telegram #140, February 3/16, 1917, with information that Bint was banished from Switzerland in 1903 and was arrested for returning in XIIIb(2), folder 34
Reference: See incoming telegram, February 8, 1917, requesting information on Bint's arrest, in XIIIc(3), folder 34
Reference: See incoming telegram, February 27, 1917, about Bint's appeal from a Swiss prison, in XIIIc(3), folder 34
Reference: See incoming telegram, March 4, 1917, about with instructions for Bint's release from prison, in XIIIc(3), folder 34
Reference: See incoming telegram, March 4, 1917, with instructions for payment to Bint's wife, in XIIIc(3), folder 34
l. Purges: dismissal of agents
Cross-reference sheet
VII. Positive intelligence
a. Military, political and economic
Dispatches, drafts and notes 1887-1912
Wartime intelligence reports 1915-1916
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See incoming telegram, May 7, 1904, requesting information on submarine dealers, in XIIIc(3), folder 16
Reference: See incoming telegram, November 17, 1904, reporting on ship movements through the Suez canal, in XIIIc(3), folder 16
b. Industrial espionage in Great Britain
c. Wartime political, economic, and other espionage in Germany and Austria
Dispatches pertaining to Okhrana agents in Germany and Austria 1914-1917
Reference: For report on the arrest of Okhrana agent in Vienna, May 1915, see VIIIb
d. Intelligence on military equipment
VIII. Counter-espionage
a. Prior to World War I
Notebook, Chernoviki donesenii, case officer's entry of daily reports from 1905 on operations against the Japanese mission (Colonel Akashi), Chinese, Serbian, and other legations, and correspondence intercepts; Zilliacus and Dekanozi conspiracies, list of agents participating, etc. 1905
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 74, February 26, 1904, concerning an Austrian espionage agent in Poland, in XIIIc(2), folder 4
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 75, March 4, 1904, on Japanese and German espionage in Russia, in XIIIc(2), folder 4
Reference: See incoming telegram, November 4, 1904, advising of the arrival of a Japanese espionage agent in Bucharest, in XIIIc(3), folder 16
b. During World War I
Agent Sambain's letters on German espionage in Sweden; survey of German and Finnish activities and Russian agents in Sweden; notes on Kalisher (Dahlstrom) firm as a possible asset of the Russian service; review of German-Finnish intelligence in Sweden, etc. 1916
Various reports on individuals remaining in Vienna after the outbreak of the war; on Russian prisoners of war in Germany; on Prince Bebutov in Berlin; on German, Austrian, and Turkish offers to revolutionaries for work against Russia; on the statutes of the "Cosmos" club
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See operational card index file for references to counter-espionage during World War I
Reference: See agent Woltz's reports from Switzerland, 1915, in VIk, folder 53
Reference: See report of Paris Okhrana agent in Germany, 1916, in VIIc, folder 1
Reference: See documents on agent Bint's arrest in Switzerland, February-March 1917, in VIk, folder 6
c. Finnish espionage on behalf of Germany
IX. Overt activities
a. Newspaper service, clippings, collection of overt information
1904 January 1-28 June
1904 August 11-October 31
1905 March 2-21
1905 June 13-July 8
1905 July 9-25
b. Influencing local press
Reference: See outgoing telegram, March 5, 1903, re influencing the Nouvelle Revue, in XIIIb(2), folder 2
Reference: See incoming telegram, March 31, 1904, on payment for 100 subscriptions to Gaulois, in XIIIc(3), folder 16
Reference: See incoming telegram, June 18, 1904, with approval for the purchase of subscriptions to Le Gaulois and Le Figaro, in XIIIc(3), folder 16
Reference: See incoming telegram, June 21, 1905, concerning the necessity of "warning" the French public against a French correspondent writing unfavorable articles, in XIIIc(3), folder 18
Reference: See incoming telegram, June 1, 1905, with instructions for press releases to newspapers concerning disorder on the Potemkin, in XIIIc(3), folder 18
c. Cooperation with Russian missions abroad
Cross-reference sheet
d. General services, favors
Cross-reference sheet
X. Operational techniques
a. Agent documentation
Cross-reference sheet
b. Control of photographic studios in Paris
Reference: For information on the Laizier photographic studio in Paris, 1914, see IIIe, folder 3
Reference: See the personal dossier of Henri Ozanne, who was hired in 1908 for his photographic services, in IIIe, folder 3
c. Censorship and perlustration
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 18, February 1, 1903, on the use of perlustrated correspondence of revolutionaries by the Okhrana offices, in XIIIc(2), folder 2
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 22, February 28, 1903, on the use of information obtained from intercepted mail, in XIIIc(2), folder 2
Reference: See agent Pouchot's report on Leone's turning to Burtsev, in XXVIIa, folder 3
Reference: For complete sets of perlustrated mail addressed to Agafonov and Natanson, June 1908-March 1909, see XXIVa
d. Graphological study of handwriting
e. Surveillance
Reports by agent
Miscellaneous material on surveillance referencing communiqué No. 391 (March 7/20, 1913) 1914
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See directive circular no. 5200, August 13, 1902, on rules of surveillance, in XIIId(1), folder 8
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 15, January 10, 1903, with instructions on surveillance procedures, in XIIIc(2), folder 2
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 50, September 11, 1903, with instructions on surveillance procedures, in XIIIc(2), folder 2
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 63, December 11, 1903, with instructions on surveillance procedures, in XIIIc(2), folder 2
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 83, April 29, 1904, with instructions on assignment of surveillance agents, in XIIIc(2), folder 4
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 86, May 20, 1904, regarding the processing of surveillance data, in XIIIc(2), folder 4
Reference: See daily surveillance reports on Burtsev and his revolutionary intelligence agents in 1909, in XVIId, folder 3
f. Safe houses (clandestine quarters, passwords)
g. Albums of photographs for office and agent use
Large album of photographs of revolutionaries for office use
Medium size albums with indices of names
Medium size album with indices of names (1) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (2) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (3) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (4) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (5) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (6) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (7) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (8) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (9) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (10) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (11) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (12) 1890-1910
Medium size album with indices of names (13) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (1) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (2) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (3) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (4) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (5) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (6) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (7) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (8) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (9) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (10) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (11) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (12) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (13) 1890-1910
Pocket size album for agent use (14) 1890-1910
XI. Penetration and infiltration of opposing groups
a. Double agents
Notes, letters, dispatches, and reports on the following double agents: Abramov, Brodskii, Zilbertstein, Wackman, Ankerman, Poznanskii-Goldendakh, Weisman, Chauvin, Zagorskaia, Kogan-"Aleks," Gudin, Rabinovich, "M" (Milewski), Jollivet, Gramm, and Grunbaum-"Monser"
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See index numbers IIIe, IIIf, and VIk
Reference: See agent Wackman's reports on conferences in XVIc
Reference: See Jollivet's reports, 1913-1914, on his French double agent team in Burtsev's office, in VIk, folder 29
b. Placement of agents into conspiratorial organizations
Report to Headquarters on various matters referring to the revolutionaries (1903); instructions from Headquarters; Burtsev's action exposing Okhrana agents; correspondence regarding penetration activities; Vorobeichik (1895), Prodan (1904), and Zagorskaia (1905) 1895-1905
Agent files
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: For agent Pilenas's letters on Lithuanian revolutionaries in London, see XXII
Reference: See agent Kornfeld's report on the personal history of Rubinovich and an intelligence analysis, in XVIb(1)
Reference: See documents on the exposure of agent Kensitskii in XXIVc
(1) Missions to Scandinavia - Sambain, Aebersold, and other agents
Reference: See outgoing telegram no. 24, February 5, 1916, on Sambain's mission to Scandinavia, in XIIIb(2), folder 8
Reference: For agent Sambain's letters on German espionage in Sweden, 1916, see VIIIb, folder 10
Reference: For an intelligence directive and reports on Sweden, the Finns, and Germans, see VIIIb, folder 10
Reference: For notes of Russian navy and war attaches in Stockholm on German agent Kalisher and the Dahlstrom firm, see VIIIb, folder 10
Reference: For correspondence of Count Holstein, 1916, see VIIIb, folder 4
(2) "Lucy" among the revolutionaries in New York
(3) Malinovskii and prisoners of war in Germany
(4) Zhitomirskii in Berlin
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 120, January 13, 1905, on Gapon's plans to lead a workers' demonstration, in XIIIc(2), folder 6
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 121, January 20, 1905, on Gapon's influence as an agitator among workers, in XIIIc(2), folder 6
Reference: See intelligence summary no. 154, September 8, 1905, reporting that Gapon acquired a false passport, in XIIIc(2), folder 6
XII. Planning intelligence and provocation operations
a. Security operations
b. Direction of provocation by Okhrana chiefs
Leonid Aleksandrovich Rataev file 1902-1905
Notebooks
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See the story on Landesen (Garting) in a supplement to L'Eclair, 1890, in XVIa, folder 6
Reference: See outgoing telegram, March 21, 1908, from Garting on Burtsev's attempt to expose him, in XIIIb(2), folder 6
Reference: For Krasil'nikov's false story on a bomb explosion in Russia to deceive the Germans, see agent Lenin's file (1915) in XIa
c. Outstanding provocation cases
(1) Evno Azef
Miscellaneous dispatches, surveillance reports, and other materials on Azef 1902-1915
Cross-reference sheet
(2) Controls in arms shipments
XIII. Processing of intelligence
a. Analysis and collation of information (raw reports)
Dispatches, reports, notes, and other materials
Cross-reference sheet
Reference: See outgoing dispatches not sent because of the revolution in Russia, in XIIIb(1)
b. Outgoing data
(1) Outgoing dispatches
1892-1893 (Bound volumes)
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