Thanks for the insite...
Can you give links for "doucments of the secret police/Beria, etc from that era."
You can google Keston College.
They have a lot of books/documentation about Religion in the USSR. Of course, a lot is about Beria. Ask them about this document. I know I would have seen something like this in all my reading if it existed.
There are quite a few books about Beria; none mention this document.
Some of the militia groups are antisemitic and have ties with Islamic extremists. Beria may have been a Jew, I forget. This really may be some convoluted attempt to smear Jews because of Beria. I'd have to look at it more before knowing. Just speculating.
You can write the Library of Congress. The US Government collected rooms full of Communist Propaganda.
This thing is a fake.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691010935/104-3106101-5027932
This is a fairly recent book about Beria. This alleged document would be referrenced here if it existed.
I have this book. IF I can find it in my mess, I will tell you if this "textbook" is cited.
A couple of books:
The Secret World of American Communism (Klehr,etc)
and Bibliography on Soviet Intelligence and Security Services (Rocca and Dziak)
This document isn't mention in these books.
An American expert on the Soviet Security organization is Amy Knight. You can send her the link and ask her about it.
I think it's a fabrication.
You can also e-mail Peter Reddaway a professor of Russian politics at George Washington University in DC.
He has written books about psychiatric repression of dissenters in the former USSR.
The apocryphal document that you link deals with the manipulation of psychiatry. If this document you have posted were genuine, probably Reddaway would have cited it in his research on Soviet psychiatriac repression.
American Communists were typically very idealistic people. I don't think the Soviets would give them something this frank and cynical. They would turn off their American recruits.