Talat Pasha's associate (can't remember his name) reported he had burned the documents. In this similar vein, when Mithat Sukru and Ziya Gokalp both testified that Dr. Nazim took all the Central Committee's documents.
Mithat Sukru said, "What I understand is that Dr. Nazim Bey took them, or so the staff said."
Ziya Gokalp said, "Dr. Nazim asked for documents on the Committee's history, saying 'I brought them from Europe and I shall keep them safe...' But I later learned that the documents weren't separated from any others. He took them [all] away in boxes."
[This comes from A Shameful Act, by Taner Akcam, who cites "Second session, Takvim-i Vekayi, no. 3543 (4 Mayis 1335/4 May 1919)."]
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