001223, also known as Об оперативных мерах против антисоветских и социально враждебных элементов,[1] erroneously: О высылке антисоветских элементов из Литвы, Латвии и Эстонии,[2][3] was an order signed by Lavrentiy Beria on October 11, 1939.
[4] In fact, its title was "О введении единой системы оперативного учета антисоветских элементов, выявляемых агентурной разработкой",[5] or translated as, e.g."On the Operative Accounting of Anti-Soviet and Socially Alien Elements"[6] For a long time, the text of the order and its exact title were not available, and information about it is known from references, including its date and number, in the subsequent orders of state security.
[7] In 2012, Russian historian Aleksandr Dyukov, in his collection of documents, Накануне Холокоста.
Фронт литовских активистов и советские репрессии в Литве, 1940 - 1941 гг.
Attached to the Order was a detailed bureaucratic instruction how to carry out the accounting, signed by Chief of the 1st Special Department of the NKVD of the USSR, captain of state security Petrov.