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coming closer and that a definite alliance had either already been concluded
or would be in the future.
Rus sia and France have gone back to the old alliance according to all
the information that he was able to pick up.
[signed/signature of John M. Allison]
Notes
- NARA-rg 59, t1249, roll 40, pp. 457–460. Declassified on January 28, 1980, per E.O.
12065, Sec. 3-402, State Dept. Guidelines, June 2, 1979, signed Milton O. Gustafson.
- The words “the head of the G.P.U.” refers to Khan Chan Gol as he was the
NKVD’s Third Division commander in Birobidzhan located in Eastern Siberia. To my
knowledge, he was the highest ranking East Asian NKVD officer in the entire USSR. Khan
(or Han in En glish) is also a Chinese surname, thus, the confusion. OGPU/GPU were the
names of the NKVD prior to 1934.
