30 août 1919 - makhno's kontrraz contribute to coup whereby 58th division of RKKA defect to Makhnovists

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While MOAP was obtaining the resources required for underground
work by means of ex's, at the end of August, 1919, in the region of
Novy Bug and Pomoshnaya, the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka played
an undoubted role in the coup which led to units of the 58h Divi-
sion of the RKKA joining the insurgents. According to Volkovinsky,
Makhno's detachment maintained secret contacts with the regiments
of the former Makhnovist commanders Kalashnikov, Dermenzhi,
and Budanov which formed the heart of this division. Judging by
the subsequent practice of the Makhnovist Shtarm in dealing with
vacillating Red Army units, such contacts were made by agents of
the Kontrrazvedka.

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