List of Information Comprising State Secrets

USSR Council of Ministers, Decree on the Establishment of a List of Information Comprising State Secrets, Disclosure of Which Shall be Punished by Law. June 10, 1947

 

Original Source: Izvestiia, 10 June 1947.

The Council of Ministers has decreed that the following list of information comprising state secrets shall be established.

Information of a Military Character

1. The organization, number, location, combat strength, armament, equipment, combat preparedness, supply of material or money, and plans of mobilization and operations of the armed forces of the USSR as a whole, of branches of the service, and of military commands, units, ships, subdivisions, installations, institutions, and individual military objects.

2. The composition, size, condition, location, and assignment of mobilized state supplies of all kinds, of reserves of state materials and provisions, as well as of reserves of people subject to mobilization, both in the USSR as a whole and in constituent and autonomous republics, territories, regions, bases, industrial and transport enterprises, as well as in commands, units, and installations of the armed forces of the USSR.

3. Plans of mobilization and operations, schedules, drafts, and measures connected with plans of mobilization which secure the defensive capacity of the USSR along lines of state administration, industry, transport, communications, and all other spheres of the national economy (both as a whole and in individual departments, enterprises, and territorial districts).

4. Location, equipment, financial-industrial plans, productive might, nomenclature, and dimensions of products of war industries, as well as of all remaining industries partially engaged in the execution of war contracts.

5. Discoveries, inventions, and improvements, research and experimental projects in the sphere of technical and other means of defense of the USSR.

6. Documents, materials, and publications relating to the defense of the USSR, as well as data based on such documents, materials, and publications.

Information of an Economic Character

7. Information declared by the Council of Ministers of the USSR as subject to be kept secret: concerning industry as a whole and in its individual spheres, agriculture, trade, and means of communication.

8. The condition of foreign exchange reserves, and information concerning the current exchange balance and plans of financial operations of the USSR, information concerning the place and manner of keeping and transporting precious metals belonging to the state, foreign exchange, and moneys.

9. Plans and planning proposals relating to export and import of individual commodities, and the condition of export reserves of individual commodities.

10. Geological resources and acquisition of light and rare metals and soils.

Information Concerning Discoveries, Inventions, and Improvements of a Nonmilitary Character

11. Discoveries, inventions, technical improvements, research and experimental works in all spheres of science, technology, and the national economy, before they are definitely completed and permitted to be published.

Other Kinds of Information

12. Information relating to negotiations, relations, and agreements of the USSR with foreign states, and also all kinds of measures in the sphere of foreign policy and foreign trade, not contained in officially published data.

13. State cipher codes and the content of coded messages.

14. Other information which will be declared by the Council of Ministers of the USSR to be not subject to disclosure.

In connection with the issuance of the present decree, the Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR of 27 April 1926, “On the issuance of a list of information whose contents comprise specially protected state secrets” (Coll. Laws USSR, 1926, No. 32, Article 213) shall be deemed to have lost its validity.

Source: The American Review on the Soviet Union. Vol. III, Nos. 3-4 (Oct. 1947), pp. 87-88.

 

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