The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1930, Page 18

| i Union, and of the impossibility of over- throwing the Soviet power and restoring Capitalism without outside assistance, took up connections with the central organiza- tion of the emigrant enemies of the people the former owners of the nationalized un- @ertakings who have organized themselves fm the so-called Trade and Industrial Com- Msittee; that even earlier they maintained eonnections with individual members of this organization, and carried on their sabotaging activities in agreement with these sons with a view to creating favorable conditions | for an. armed intervention; that with this end in view they accepted financial support | from the Trade and Industrial Committee | and from foreign states. 4 That they also took up criminal con- nections through the Trade and Industrial Committee with French governing circles in the persons of the former head of the French government, Poincare, the present French Foreign Minister, Briand, and the officers of the French General Staff, Join- yille, Janin and Richard, who were working out the plan for an armed intervention against the Soviet Union, thereby commit- ting high treason. &. That in the course of their treacherous inxs « activity for the destruction of the economic | life of the country, they directed their sab- otage to a) the creation of a crisis in the| most important branches of industry for the year 1930 i, e. for the time set by the French General Staff for a military intervention against the Soviet Union; b) That in agree- ment with the French General Staff they took up personal connections through the mediation of members of tHe French secret kA SRE er ne ay 27 mel mmarcerasee” ESS service specially appointed for this purpose, and who were designated as K. and R. re- spectively; ;that they tasks from the French General Staff and at- tempted to carry out these tasks, whereby they obtained at French of this general staff they organized a special military group which had the task of demor- | alizing the Red Army and preparing indivi- dual acts of treason on the part of indivi- | dual units of the Red Army and their com- manders during the intervention; d) That at the instructions of the French general | 1a citizen of the Soviet Union. Secretary of the Thermal-Technical Insti- | accepted espionage | instructions the | | necessary secret information concerning the | armed forces and the defense system of the | | Soviet Union; ¢) That at the instructions | ave organization for the with a view to supporting the military in- tervention by blowing up public buildings railways, ammunition factories, power sta- tions, etc. All these charges fall under Article 58, Paragraphs 3, 4 and 6 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R, i. Otchkin, Viadimir Ivanovitch, born 1891 Scientific tute, Manager of the Scientific Investiga- tion Department of the Supreme Economic Council of the Soviet Union. A member of the illegal Industrial Party at his own| confession. Otchkin is charged with join- ing the Industrial Party with a full know- | ledge of the aims and activity of this party and with having carried out the instructions of this party;; with having taken up treason- able connections with Mr. K. and Mr. R. officials of the French Secret Service with} a view to espionage activity; that he pro- vided these persons with the necessary sec- ret information; and that he accepted and staff they formed a special group in their | carried out the instructions of these persons, ee’ creation of diversions | all offences which fall under Article 58, Paragraph 3 and 6 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. : IIt, Sitnin, Xenophon Vassilievitch, born 1878, a citizen of the Soviet Union, Engineer of the Textile Syndicate of the Soviet Union, Sitnin is charged with joining the same counter-revolutionary sabotage organization with a full knowledge of its aims and acti« vity, and with having carried out the in« structions of this organization with regard to sabotage; and further with having taken up during his stay abroad personal relations with leading members of the Trade and In« dustrial Committee, in particular with Kono- valov, all offences which fall under Article 48, Paragraph 3 and 4 of the Penal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. s » * The above indictment has been confirmed in agreement with the Public Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union by KRYLENKO, Public Prosecutor of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republics, <a ae aon en