Newer (declassified and published) sources corroborate that Soviet institutions — including the KGB and state commissions headed by officials such as Boris Shcherbina — engaged in systematic secrecy and information control after Chernobyl; however, some widely repeated specifics in popular accounts (for example, an explicit Politburo order to raise permissible radiation limits tenfold, or an official Kremlin policy to 'blend' radioactive food with clean food) are not clearly corroborated in the cited declassified summaries and remain unverified in those sources.
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