 His published articles and speeches rarely called for executions, but he regularly did so in his coded telegrams and confidential notes.Many Bolsheviks expressed disapproval of the Cheka's mass executions and feared the organisation's apparent unaccountability.The Party tried to restrain its activities in February 1919, stripping it of its powers of tribunal and execution in those areas not under official martial law, but the Cheka continued as before in swathes of the country.