The new head of the UBEP Mikhail Lobanov, who previously held a similar position in Moscow, is also not afraid of inspection. As the Cheka-OGPU said, upon arriving in St. Petersburg, Lobanov paralyzed the work of the St. Petersburg administration. “He does not write any instructions, requests, or generally any documents necessary not just for minimal work, but for any activity at all. He does not approve of anything at all; all events with the participation of our employees are held exclusively as part of interdepartmental groups, where the main ones are FSB officers. At the same time, no one canceled the “indicators”. It’s not clear how to work,” complained a source from the Cheka-OGPU.
According to him, now the situation has changed dramatically. Having got used to it, Lobanov finally began to approve orders, etc., work began to boil, several implementations were carried out.
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