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LAURENTY PAVOLOVICH BERIA

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LAURENTY PAVOLOVICH BERIA
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>LAURENTY PAVOLOVICH BERIA </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>American Radio Parts For Russian NKVD<BR><BR></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>(1899-1953). Appointed Russian Deputy Prime Minister in 1941 and member of Politburo in 1946. As the dreaded head of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, he oversaw the Great Purge of 1934-38 and ordered the deaths of thousands. In a power struggle following Stalin’s death, Beria was outmaneuvered and was in turn tried and executed himself.TLS in Russian, 1p, small 4to, n.p. Dec 11, 1942. With translation. To Comrade Mekoyan, Assistant Chairman, USSR Council of the People’s Commissars, in full, “<i>In the NKVD there is a radio laboratory which makes radio devices for NKVD usage as well as samples of the devices used in the Red Army. Due to the special features of the devices they have to be made of foreign parts. Therefore, please ask the Ministry of Foreign Trade to buy in the USA radio parts, radio lamps, and other materials, necessary for the USSR NKVD, based on the enclosed list, for the amount of $118538</i>...” Boldly signed. Approved and signed by Mikoyan. Light toning; bottom and left borders trimmed affecting some manuscript dockets; wear and chipping at right border with minimal paper loss; o/w VG.</span></p>