The accepted proposal of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavrentiy Beria">Lavrentiy Beria</a> to execute former Polish army and police officers in NKVD prisoner of war camps and prisons, 5 March 1940. A color scan of the original document
Location: Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), ul. Bolshaya Dmitrowka 15, Moscow, signature of the document: F.17, Op. 166 Case 621 p. 130-133 (2003; in the years 1991 - 2003 was stored in the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation in the set of "Closed package No. 1").
Лаврентий Павлович Берия
1940-03-05
<ul><li>РГАСПИ  Ф. 17 оп. 166 дело 621 лист 131. Подлинник. Scan from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://katyn.ru/index.php?go=Pages&amp;in=view&amp;id=6">http://katyn.ru/index.php?go=Pages&amp;in=view&amp;id=6</a></li>
<li>This is a colour photocopy of official document legally transferred into the property of Polish Government, and first published in Poland, by Government of Poland in 1993.</li></ul>