To Deputy of the National Commissioner of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Commissioner of State Security Third Rank, comrade Abakumov.
According your order, I placed agents on the premises, occupied by captured German generals.
With Paulus and Schmidt I placed an agent of counter-intelligence department, junior lieutenant of the state security, comrade Tarabrin, who speaks German language well, and our representative Nesterov.
Tarabrin's task was to write down all discussions of German POWs, not revealing his knowledge of German language, and present his notes in the diary form (below).
POWs mood is gloomy. They speak very little.
In another group of generals (Daniels, Drebber and others) mood is more vigorous, however Drebber, in conversation with Pik, instructor of 7th section of Political Department of the Red Army, declared, that “some generals think about committing suicide”.
All above-mentioned was reported to the representative of the Stavka, Marshal of Artillery Voronov, and to the member of the Military Council, General-Major Telegin.
According comrade Voronov's instruction, all cutting-pricking items were removed.
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