Syndicate–2

Such a plan was developed in the Counterintelligence Department of the State Political Administration under the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, created in 1922.

[3] Through Sheshenya (who was under the threat of being shot for participating in Balakhovich's formations and agreed to cooperate with the United State Political Directorate), the extraordinary commissioners managed to uncover two agents – Mikhail Zekunov and V. Gerasimov, who turned out to be the leader of an underground organization.

In addition, the extraordinary commissioners managed to recruit Zekunov, arrested in September 1922, who, after a month of briefing, was sent to Poland, where he met with Sheshenya's relative, a member of the People's Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom, Ivan Fomichev.

And so it happened, after this conversation, Fomichev got to a meeting of the joint center of "Liberal Democrats" and Savinkovites, where he made a proposal for cooperation (Professor Isachenko was sent to the Internal Prison of the State Political Administration on Lubyanka, and, apparently, was shot).

[4] In addition, Fomichev and Fedorov contacted Polish intelligence, passed on some false information (prepared by the State Political Administration) and agreed on permanent cooperation.

[5] Pavlovsky arrived in Poland in August 1923, illegally crossed the border with the Soviet Union on August 17,[3] killing a Red Army soldier, but instead of immediately proceeding to check the activities of Sheshenya, Zekunov and others, in Belarus he organized an armed group from among the members of the People's Union for the Defense of the Motherland and freedoms, along with which he began to deal with the expropriation of banks, mail trains and the murder of communists.

On September 16,[3] he moved to Moscow, where two days later, during a meeting with Sheshenya and the leaders of the Liberal Democrats, he was arrested and taken to the internal prison of the State Political Administration.

But the attempt to send a letter with a conditional sign failed, since Pavlovsky, with his persistent interest in whether the emergency commissioners were not afraid that Savinkov would learn about the arrest of his assistant, aroused their suspicions, and a secret technique was unraveled by the cipher clerks.

In addition, the extraordinary commissioners organized meetings of Fomichev with the "leaders of anti–Soviet groups" in Rostov–on–Don and Mineralnye Vody, who were represented by officers of the Counterintelligence Department Ibragim Abyssalov and Ignatiy Sosnovsky.

Cooperating with the investigation, he presented at the trial the version invented by the extraordinary commissioners in order to keep the details of Operation Syndicate–2 secret, and stated that he repented of his crimes and admitted "all his political activities since the October Socialist Revolution were a mistake and delusion".

The motion of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court was approved by the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, and the capital punishment was replaced by imprisonment for a term of ten years.

In the evening of that day, employees of the United State Political Administration Speransky, Puzitsky and Syroezhkin accompanied Savinkov for a walk in Tsaritsinsky Park, three hours later they returned to Lubyanka, to Pillar's office on the fifth floor to wait for the guards.

For the first time, a message about Savinkov's suicide, written in the United State Political Administration, edited by Felix Dzerzhinsky and approved by Joseph Stalin, was published on May 13 in the newspaper Pravda.

[2] Agents of the People's Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom Veselov, Gorelov, Nagel–Neiman, Rosselevich, the organizers of the terrorist acts V. I. Svezhevsky and Mikhail Gnilorybov and others were arrested and convicted.

[5] Alexander and Lyubov Dikhoff were amnestied and lived in Moscow until 1936, when they were sentenced to 5 years in a forced labor camp as "socially dangerous elements", they ended up in the Kolyma.

[3][5] Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Roman Pillar, Sergei Puzitsky, Nikolai Demidenko, Andrey Fedorov, Grigory Syroezhkin were presented with the Order of the Red Banner.