Latvijas PSR Valsts drošības komitejas (VDK) par sevišķi bīstamiem pretvalstiskiem noziegumiem apsūdzēto personu krimināllietas

Some copies are in USHMM: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506414 Fonds includes criminal cases concerning persons accused of particularly dangerous anti-government crimes against the Soviet state and who received criminal liability according to article Nr. 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (1926) and articles Nr. 59–68, 43, 74, and 84 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code (1961), and persons who lived and had committed crimes in the territory of the Latvian SSR or who had been born in Latvia and committed crimes in the territory of another republic of the USSR; these Criminal cases were delivered for storage in Latvian SSR CSS Archive. Criminal cases include information about: decision of arrest; decision of option for security measures; warrant of arrest; questionnaire of arrested person; photos; fingerprints; search report; report of confiscated items; receipt for delivering of valuables, money, or weapons to the state institutions; questioning report; decision about finishing investigation and conclusions about submitting case to the court, Prosecution, Special Council of the PCI (Russian: Osoboye Soveshchaniye pri NKVD), war tribunal courts, etc.; conclusion of accusation; correspondence with prison administration about residence in place of imprisonment; reports from court sessions; sentence of court or extract from decision of Special Council of the PCI; cassation appeal; statements about excluding imprisoned person from camp or prison; statements about implementation of capital punishment; statements about death or release from place of imprisonment; correspondence about rehabilitation; conclusion of rehabilitation and other documents. Attachments of criminal cases: accountancy cases; personal cases of imprisoned persons; personal cases of persons in deportation settlement; searching cases of persons; cases of confiscation belongings; materials of verification; materials of special inspection; cases of supervision in criminal records; registration journals of criminal records. Fonds includes documents about period from the civil war in Russia (1919-1920); deserters of the Front Borders and Latvian/USSR border later; documents about Soviet occupation period in Latvia (1940–1941) and Soviet repressions against inhabitants of Latvia. Crimes against humanity (including crimes related to the Holocaust) according to legislation of the USSR were classified as criminal offenses: criminal case and investigations against accused person were initiated in terms of betrayal of the Motherland. Persons involved in Holocaust-related crimes committed during the period of Nazi Germany’s occupation (1941-1945) were convicted late in World War II and after the war, mostly during 1945–1946 or later in the 1940s and 1950s. Political lawsuits about crimes against Jews were filed in early 1960s-1970s (for example, against members of 18th and 20th German Police Battalions). Fonds also includes documents about the second Soviet occupation of Latvia (1944–1990), repressed members of national resistance movement, dissidents and other persons who had committed “political crimes” against the Soviet state. The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) People’s Commissariat of State Security (PCSS; Russian: NKGB) was established on 31 March 1941 by the separation of the LSSR People’s Commissariat of Interior (PCI; Russian: NKVD). PCSS was a republic-wide institution accountable to the USSR’s NKGB; its main task was state security interests. During the period of Nazi Germany occupation of Latvia, the PCSS was evacuated and worked in the unoccupied USSR. On 24 March 1946 PCSS was reorganized as the LSSR Ministry of State Security (MSS). On 13 April 1953 the Latvian SSR MSS was united with the Latvian SSR Ministry of Interior (MI), and the Ministry of Interior ( MI) was established. On 10 April 1954 the Latvian SSR Committee for State Security (CSS; Russian: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was established, which was attached to the Latvian SSR Council of Ministers (CM). CSS was republic-wide institution accountable to the USSR. On 7 September 1978 the Latvian SSR CM CSS changed its name to the Latvian SSR CSS. The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Committee for State Security was terminated according to the decision of the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council of 24 August 1991, “On the Termination of Activities of the USSR State security institutions in the Republic of Latvia”. For internal use - Registration journals of fonds cases and alphabetic card index ''Protection law of physical person data ( 2000), (Sensitive data: Personal data which indicates someone’s race, ethnic ancestry, religious, philosophical, or political convictions, membership in labour unions, or information about health and sexual life of person). The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia Regulations Nr. 151 (June 13, 1995) ''Regulations about using order of LSSR CSS documents from The Totalitarian Consequences Documentation Centre''; ''Protection law of physical person data'' (2000); ''Law of Archives'' (2010).