852.2221/1268: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Counselor of Embassy in Spain (Thurston)
470. Your 1080 November 10. Documentation of volunteers. After verification citizenship Department is willing authorize certificates [Page 339] identification without photographs with understanding that men will be questioned further and photographs added at Paris.
Continue efforts obtain lost passports not only of persons in Spain but of deceased Americans and of volunteers who left Spain without passports. Department does not give credence to report loss of passports while en route from Albacete to Barcelona.