Endnotes for Chapter IV

1 Called at first by various names; this designation became official by 3d Ind by TAG of 2 Dec 41 to Memo, USSR Mission Home Office for TAG, 18 Nov 41. Folder, U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737.

2 (1) Memo, Lt Gen Henry H. Arnold for CofS, 27 Oct 41 ; Memo, Gen Crain for Defense Aid Dir, 27 Oct 41; and Memo, Gen Moore for CofS, 28 Oct 41. AG 400.3295 (8-14-41) Sec 3. (2) Rad, Hopkins to Col Faymonville, 28 Oct 41, and other papers, cited MS Index to the Hopkins Papers, Vol. I, Bk. IV, Harriman-Beaverbrook Mission, p. 9, Items 37, 38.

3 By oral instructions of CofS. See Ltr of Instructions, Secy War to Gen Greely, 5 Nov 41. AG 400.3295 (8-14-41) Sec 1. Another copy Folder, U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737.

4 Memo, Gen Miles, G-2, for CofS, 30 Sep 41. AG 400.3295 (8-14-41) Sec 3.

5 (1) Rad, Col Faymonville to Gen Sidney Spalding, 19 Nov 41, with reply, 25 Nov 41. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, AST NCF. (2) Private Ltrs. Folder, U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,73.

6 Report to Congress on Lend-Lease Operations for Year Ended March 11, 1942, p. 27.

7 (1) John N. Greely, Rpt of the U.S. Military Mission to the USSR, 1941-42, with attachments, 11 May 42. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF. (Cited hereafter as Final Rpt.) (2) Ltr, Gen Greely to Col Walter M. Robertson 27 Nov 41. Folder. U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737.

8 (1) Ltr, Gen Greely to Secy War, 6 Nov 41. 200 Personnel General, USSR, Intn Div, AST NCF. (2) Data on personnel allotments and strength are in other papers in this file. See also 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF; Folder, U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737; and Rpt, Chief, Home Office, to Defense Aid Dir, 22 Jan 42, 320 Mis Br, Intn Div, ASF NCF. The strength of the mission fluctuated within narrow limits close to the original request. At termination there were 12 officers and 14 warrant officers, noncommissioned officers, and enlisted men overseas. (3) 300.6 USSR, Intn Div, AST NCF. (4) 319.1 Rpts Home Office to Mission USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF. (5) Memo, signed by Capt Paul F. Yount, 24 Nov 41, sub: Rpt on Cons Needs. Iran 2/8, NADEF.

9 Memo, Gen Greely for Gen Burns, Div of Defense Aid Rpts, 4 Dec 41. Folder, U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737. Other copies AG 400.3295 (8-14-41) Sec 1; and 336 USSR, Intn Div, AST NCF.

10 Memo, Gen Greely for Gen Moore, DCofS, 12 Jan 42. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

11 Final Rpt.

12 (1) See Memo reviewing history of mission, prepared for CofS by Gen Eisenhower, ACofS, OPD, 25 Mar 42. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF. (2) Rad 29 to U.S. MA, Tehran, 7 Jan 42. MID 400.3295 1-7-42 (1-6J42). (3) Optimism as to ability of the mission to obtain entry into the USSR reached its height in a report prepared by Assistant Secretary of War McCloy for the Lend-Lease Administration, 20 February 1942, stating that the USSR Mission's "foreign component has only recently landed in Russia." Rpts, Defense Aid Papers, Drawer 1, Cabinet 67, Intn Div, ASF CCF (Current Classified Files).

13 Memo of conversation between Andrei A. Gromyko, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy, Washington, and Loy W. Henderson, Asst Chief, Div of European Affairs, Dept State, 26 Feb 42, atchd to Memo cited n. 12 (1) 

14 (1) Itinerary Rpt, USSR Mission. 319.1 Progress Rpts USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF. (2) Memo cited n. 10.

15 (1) Min, Stf Mtg at Cairo, 27 Jan 42. Maxwell Papers. ( 2 ) Rad Wheeler to Moore, 4 Feb 42. AG 371 (12-17-41) Sec 2. ( 3 ) Rpt cited n. 14 (1) .

16 Final Rpt.

17 (1) Memo, cited n. 12 ( I ) . ( 2 ) Ltr, Gen Greely to Andrei Smirnov, 6 Feb 42, atched to Final Rpt. A transcript in PGF 261.

18 a Rad 9 AMRUS 2, Greely to MILID Washington, 6 Feb 42. PGF 261.

19 ( I ) Rad AMRUS 4 to MILID Washington (Gen Greely to Gen Moore), 16 Feb 42. Folder, U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737. (2) See also Memo, Maj Willet J. Baird, Chief, Home Office, USSR Mission, for Gen Moore, 27 Feb 42. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

20 Rad, Gen Greely to G-2, Washington, 9 Mar 42. AG 400.3295 (8-14-41) Sec 1.

21 File, Reconnaissance Trips, passim, SL X-11,737.

22 (1) Rad AMRUS 13, Greely to Washington, 21 Mar 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4. (2) Rpt by Maj Addison V. Dishman, 29 Mar 42, atchd to Weekly Rpt 6 of Col Hauser, CofS, USSR Mission. 319.1 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

23 ( I ) Rad AMRUS 9, Tehran to Washington, 12 Mar 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4. ( 2 ) Rad cited n. 22 (1) .

24 Rad AMRUS 22, Col Baird to Gen Greely, 1 Apr 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4. 

25 Progress Rpt, 16 Mar 42. 319.1 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

26 Rad, Faymonville to Stettinius, 28 Feb 42. 336 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

27 (1) Rad AMRUS 11 Washington, TAG to Amlegation Tehran, 8 Mar 42, ordering a report and requiring extension of "all courtesies necessary to assure friendly relations in the future. . ~ ." 333 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF. (2) Greely's order of 10 Mar 42 filed with Col Hawser's Rpt to Chief, USSR Mission, 16 Mar 42. Folder, Hawser Investigation, SL X-11,737.

28 Rad AMSIR 64, 7 Mar 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec I.

29 Rad AMRUS 11, Greely to Washington, 16 Mar 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4.

30 (1) Rad cited n. 22 (1) . ( 2 ) Referred to by Rad, Gen Wheeler to Gen Somervell, 2 Apr 42. 323.61 Establishment of Military Districts, Binder 1, SL 9008. (3) Rad AMRUS 19, 2 Apr 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4. Another copy Mis Br, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

31 (1) Memo, Gen Aurand for Maj David Wainhouse, 31 Mar 42. OPD 210.684 Iran, 36. ( 2 ) Memo, Lt Col Thomas S. Timberman for Chief, Theater Group, 4 Apr 42, sub: Status of Missions. OPD 210.684, 2. (3) At a meeting in Washington on 31 March 1942 in which representatives of SOS and the Middle East missions conferred, Colonel.Miles stated that OPD had prepared a directive- relieving Wheeler of his Iranian Mission command to free him to take over Indian assignments, especially the Karachi base. Colonel Miles added that General Somervell wished Wheeler to continue both of his assignments. This testimony conflicts with the concurrence, just cited, of Somervell with Aurand's approval of Greely to succeed Wheeler in the Iranian command. Memo, Melvin Sims for Lt Col Lawrence K. Ladue, 31 Mar 42. Contl Div ASF, HRS DRB AGO.

32 Rad cited n. 30 ( 2 ) .

33 Rpt, Home Office to USSR Mission, 22 Mar-4 Apr 42. Folder, Weekly Home Office Reports from U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737. Another copy 319.1 Rpts Home Office to Mission, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

34 Rad cited n. 24. Colonel Baird reported that General Maxwell had lately sent to Washington a "lengthy cable with respect to requirement for remedial action on delivery of airplanes to Russians and conditions at Basra." Rad AMRUS 27, 19 Apr 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4. Maxwell stated to his staff on 9 March that since Wheeler commanded Stilwell's SOS in India, Maxwell should take over all Iraq and Iran, handling all lend-lease needed for the British Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Armies under General Auchinleck's command. Min, Stf Mtg at Cairo, 9 Mar 42. Maxwell Papers.

35 Rad 84 to Greely, 7 Apr 42. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4.

36 Memo, Gen Greely for Capt Dougovito, 11 Mar 42, sub: Instructions on Entering the USSR. Folder, Unnumbered Memorandums U.S. Military Mission to the USSR, SL X-11,737.

37 Rpt to Home Office, USSR Mission, 12 Jun 42. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

38 (1) Rad cited n. 29. (2) Rad, Greely to Washington, 17 Mar 42. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div , ASF NCF.

39 Memo cited n. 19 ( 2 ) .

40 Ltr, Gen Greely to Smirnov, 21 Mar 42. Folder, Greely, John N., Orders and Instructions, SL X-11,737.

41 Final Rpt.

42 (1) Rad cited n. 22(1). (2) Ltr, Secy War to Secy State, 30 Mar 42. AG 400.3295 (8-14--41) Sec 1.

43 See Rad, Gen Faymonville to Thomas B. McCabe, Actg Lend-Lease Administrator, 6 Apr 42. Folder, Weekly Home Office Reports from U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737.

44 Rad, Admiral Standley to Dept State, 18 Apr 42, atchd to Ltr, Under Secy Welles to Secy War, 22 Apr 42. AG 400.3295 (8-14-41) Sec 1.

45 Rpt, Home Office to USSR Mission, 5-25 Apr 42. Folder, Weekly Home Office Reports from U.S. Military Mission to USSR, SL X-11,737. Another copy 319.1 Rpts Home Office to Mission, USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

46 (1) Ltr, Stimson to Welles, 1 May 42, drafted in accordance with Memo, Gen Somervell for Gen Marshall, to the effect that the WD would make no further effort to send the mission into the USSR. AG 400.3295 (8-14-41) Sec 1. (2) Rad AMRUS 30 to Gen Greely, 2 May 42, quotes Ltr of Secy War. AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4.

47 (1) Rad AMSIR 157 Washington, Gen Somervell to Col Shingler, 2 May 42. 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF. Other copies OPD, Iran-Iraq, Vol. I, 20E 42 (IM-Q); AG 400.3295 (8-9-41) Sec 4. (2) 334.8 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF.

48 (1) Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, pp. 395-96, and unpublished material in the Hopkins papers. (2) General Greely has recorded that his appointment was suggested by General Burns of the Division of Defense Aid Reports, who had brought Colonel Faymonville to Washington for Russian-aid talks in July 1941 and who took Faymonville to the USSR where he became head of the lend-lease mission. At the time the USSR Mission was established it was expected that Burns would become U.S. Ambassador to the USSR. Burns believed that there were distinct functions to be served by the Faymonville and Greely missions. Faymanville, with direct access to Harry Hopkins, would channel USSR requests into procurement and shipment; Greely, with War Department machinery behind him, would instruct the Russians in the use and maintenance of American lend-lease goods. It was believed that as ambassador, Burns could direct these complementary functions toward the single aim of aiding the USSR. (Ltr, Greely to Maj Gen Orlando Ward, 30 Apr 49. PGF.) But Burns did not become ambassador and the Russians did not want to be instructed. In consequence the mission became something of an orphan.


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