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May 8, 1986	Notice: Information from Places of Evacuation Two weeks after the accident, an unnamed KGB officer from the Ukrainian SSR reports on the situation in evacuation sites, the sentiment of local people, the situation in transportation hubs and at key industrial facilities in Kyiv, as well as about the measures taken to prevent foreign journalists from gathering information about the case.
May 7, 1986	Minutes of Meeting of the Operative Group of the Kiev Party City Committee Office, 7 May 1986 This document details the various forms of radiation protection undertaken in and around the city of Kiev following the Chernobyl disaster.
May 3, 1986	Deputy Head of the 6th Department of the KGB Administration Lieut. Col. Aksenov, 'Notice of Emergency Incident' This note explains the processes of localizing the effects of the accident, lead deposits in the area, and the evacuation of collective farms and the city of Chernobyl.
May 2, 1986	Deputy Head of the 6th Department of the KGB Administration Lieut. Col. Aksenov, 'Notice of Emergency Incident' The document describes levels of radiation in the immediate area, populations which may have been affected, and steps which have been taken in the first few days following the incident.
April 30, 1986	Deputy Head of the 6th Department of the KGB Administration Lieut. Col. Aksenov, 'Notice of Emergency Incident' This document relays data received from chemical protection troops on radioactivity levels in Pripyat.
April 27, 1986	Notice from the Operative Plenipotentiary of the 2nd Division of the 6th Administration of the Ukr. SSR KGB The document refers to the detention of a civilian vehicle which exceeded the level of radiation permitted by the decontamination project of the Institute for Nuclear Research, USSR Academy of Sciences.
April 27, 1986	Untitled notice on levels of radiation in Chernobyl NPP and steps taken in response The document refers to the level of radiation in the area affected and the measures undertaken for planned evacuations.
April 26, 1986	Untitled notice about the categories of the population and body parts most susceptible to radiation This document discusses how radioactivity is measured, radiation safety norms and categories, and the permissible dose of radiation for different groups (i.e., accident responders, plant personnel, the regional population)
August 14, 1984	Report from Colonel M.A. Turko, Director of the 6th Department of the KGB Administration, to the Director of the Pripyat City Department of the Ukr. SSR KGB Administration for the City of Kiev and Kiev Oblast, Lieutenant Colonel Comrade Iu. V. This document summarizes the specialists' report on the lack of reliability of the reactors at Chernobyl, citing that the lack of protective layers and other structural flaws in the reactor that could lead to radioactive contamination and accidents.
July 20, 1984	Captain A. E. Nikifiorov, Operative Plenipotentiary of Division I, Department 2 of the Sixth Service USSR KGB Administration for Moscow and Moscow Oblast, 'Information about an Interview with Trusted Individual "Zh. V.A."' The document refers to a conversation with a specialist in nuclear energy, who explains how gaps at the joints of pipes are causing problems in the blocks at both the Chernobyl and Kursk plants.