361.1121 Kudrasheff, Alexander

The Minister in Norway ( Swenson ) to the Secretary of State

No. 961

Sir: Reference is made to the Department’s instruction No. 298, of August 26, 1926, and to my despatches Nos. 903 and 918 of November 22, 1926 and December 27, 1926, respectively, with regard to the American citizens Kudrasheff,5 Chevalier, and Kopman, who have been imprisoned in Soviet Russia.

In a note dated the fifth instant the Norwegian Foreign Office informs this Mission that the Norwegian Minister at Moscow advises as follows:

“I have ascertained that Aaron Kopman has now also been freed and has gone to Riga. He was kept for a time in a prison camp in North Russia. On November 19th he was transferred to Moscow where he was detained in various prisons until on February eighth an agent of the G. P. U. delivered him to the Latvian authorities.”

I have [etc.]

Laurits S. Swenson
  1. In a despatch dated Feb. 28, 1928 (not printed), the American consul general at Berlin reported that he had been informed that Kudrasheff had died, on Jan. 31, 1927, of typhoid fever. (File No. 361.1121 Kudrasheff, Alexander/1.)