Chemyaev writes on a meeting of the Politburo when Andropov presented a memo on dissidents and political prisoners in the USSR.
October 31, 1975
CC CPSU Report, About Some Results of Preventive-Prophylactic Work of the State Security Organs
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Committee
For State Security
At the USSR Council of Ministers 31 October 1975
No. 2743-A
Moscow
CC CPSU
About Some Results of Preventive-Prophylactic Work of the State Security Organs.
In accordance with the decisions of the XXIV Party Congress and the CC CPSU instructions, the organs of state security have recently stepped up the preventive prophylactic work for preventing crimes against the state, [and] are trying to achieve a more correct combination of the criminal legal and prophylactic measures.
The comparison between the two periods – 1959-1966 and 1967-1974 shows that the number of persons subjected to criminal punishments has fallen almost by half – from 8,664 to 4,879. In the category of some especially grave crimes against the state this number fell even more significantly: treason – from 1,467 to 773 (by half), anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda – from 2, l 03 to 729 (almost by two-thirds).
The factors influencing the decrease in the numbers of crimes against the state in the recent years are the following: the further strengthening of the moral and political unity of our state, the growth of political awareness of the Soviet people, the correct punishment pol icy of the Soviet state, and the dominant role of the preventive and prophylactic work to prevent crimes.
The ratio of persons subjected to criminal repression to persons subjected to the prophylactics by the KGB organs in the period of 1967-1974 was 1:25, and in the category of especially grave crimes against the state such as anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda – 1:96.
The Committee for State Security is undertaking measures for further perfecting of the preventive-prophylactic work and for increasing its effectiveness.
Information on the number of people subjected to criminal punishment and those subjected to prophylactics in the period of 1959-1974 is attached.
Attachment: according to the text on the page 1, No. 6/4780 from 29.X.75
Chairman of the Committee for State Security
[Signature] ANDROPOV
[Attachment]
INFORMATION
About the number of persons subjected to criminal punishment and prophylactic work by the KGB organs in 1959-1974
| 1959-62 | 1963-66 | 1967-70 | 1971-74 |
Total number of persons subjected to criminal punishment | 5,413 | 3,251 | 2,456 | 2,423 |
Among them: ---for treason | 1,010 | 457 | 423 | 350 |
---for espionage | 28 | 8 | 10 | 9 |
---for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda | 1,601 | 502 | 381 | 348 |
---for contraband | 47 | 103 | 183 | 474 |
--for violation of currency regulations | 587 | 474 | 382 | 401 |
---for illegal crossing of the USSR border | 926 | 613 | 704 | 553 |
---for revealing state secrets and loss of documents containing state secrets | 22 | 31 | 19 | 18 |
---for other crimes | 1,003 | 1,011 | 328 | 258 |
Total [number of person subjected to] prophylactic work | No statistics | centralized kept | 58,298 | 63,108 |
Among them: --persons, who had suspicious ties with foreigners and harboring treasonous intentions |
|
| 5,039 | 6,310 |
---persons engaging in politically harmful expressions |
|
| 35,316 | 34,700 |
Subjected to prophylactics with participation of the public (total) |
|
| 23,611 | 27,079 |
Among them: ---at general meetings of workers and service personnel, in peer courts, etc. |
|
| 10,624 | 11,863 |
---in the form of conversations with participation of public representatives |
|
| 12,987 | 15,243 |
Official warning was issued |
|
|
| 981 (1973-74) |
Subjected to punishment from the number of those previously subject to prophylactic work |
|
| 100 | 50 |
The Committee for State Security reported on actions taken to increase preventive-prophylactic work for preventing crimes against the Soviet Union. The Committee cites drops in the number of people subjected to criminal punishment, severe crimes against the state, and anti-Soviet propaganda as results of strengthened morale, political awareness, policies, and preventative and prophylactic work. Attached is a table that numerically presents information in the report.
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Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov papers, 1887-1995, mm97083838, Reel 18, Container 28. Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya for the National Security Archive.
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