17 nov 1919 - kontrraz agents operated within white army, with much funds going to help them bribe enemy military specialists etc, or creating military groups in russia and poland. it was so dangerous behind lines that it was even used as a punishment by commanders and tribunals in makhnovshina. summertime whole agent networks were wiped out and had to be rebuilt. kontrraz also comms between mks and nabat.

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Direction for the Military Section of the Kontrrazvedka
behind enemy lines was provided by the Operations Section of the Shtarm.
According to Belash, Makhnovist agents served in Denikin's Vol-
unteer Army." Savchenko more precisely states that agents of the
Kontrrazvedka worked in almost all the enemy's units, starting at
the regimental level up to the army staff. A large part of the Kon-
trrazvedka's finances went to the underground behind the lines of
the Whites and Reds, for bribing the enemy's military specialists,
or for the creating of military groups in Moscow, Warsaw, and
Siberia. Incidentally, service as an intelligence agent was so
dangerous that it was sometimes used as a form of correctional
labour for delinquent Makhnovists. Thus one of the widespread
types of punishment meted out by either a commander or a tribunal for minor infractions in the autumn of 1919 was a transfer to
service behind enemy lines. Indeed Belash indicates that agent
networks were sometimes wiped out after which they had to be
re-established. Parallel with its core work, the Kontrrazvedka established com-
munications between separated units of the Insurgent Army and
maintained contacts between the Makhnovshchina and the sec-
retariat of the "Nabat" federation in Kharkhov. The Military
Kontrazvedka was also entrusted with the job of distributing the
Makhnovist press and anarchist literature behind enemy lines.

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