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Photocopied materials related to the Siberian department of the Joint State Political Directorate (also translated as the All-Union State Political Administration and Unified State Political Directorate) - the secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1936. The official name of the organization was "Joint State Political Directorate under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR" (Obyedinyonnoye gosudarstvennoye politicheskoye upravleniye pri SNK SSSR or OGPU). Materials include appeals, certificates, a concentration camp bulletin, summary information, an interrogation protocol, memos, minutes, copies of newspaper clippings, orders, reports, telegrams, a charter, and unidentified correspondence.