| 31. | He was probably in contact with the Soviet state security agency, Cheka,
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| 32. | He joined the Cheka in 1920 and served in its internal security section.
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| 33. | This was a signal for the Cheka in Petrograd to fabricate the case.
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| 34. | Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky was one of the first people to head the unit.
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| 35. | Dzerzhinsky became head of the Cheka secret police shortly after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
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| 36. | The Cheka is reported to have practiced torture.
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| 37. | Cheka was actively and openly utilizing kidnapping methods.
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| 38. | On 20 December 1917 the Cheka was created by the decree of Vladimir Lenin.
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| 39. | Dzerzhinsky was succeeded as head of the Cheka by fellow ethnic Pole Vyacheslav Menzhinsky.
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| 40. | The original director of the Kolyma camps was Eduard Berzin, a Cheka officer.
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