Moscow Embassy Files: Lot F–96
The American Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Standley) to the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (Molotov)
Excellency: I have the honor to inform you that I have been instructed to transmit the following message dated July 7 from President Roosevelt to Mr. Stalin:
“As the American representatives at the conferences to be held in Moscow which were suggested in my cable to you of June 17, I am designating Major General Follett Bradley,93 our Naval Attaché, Captain Duncan, and our Military Attaché, Colonel Michela. General Bradley is the only representative who will be sent to Moscow from the United States. He will come fully prepared and authorized to discuss all plans in relation to the conference.94
“We are prepared to have at Nome within the next few days an American four-engine plane to make the survey trip, three or four Soviet officers to accompany it. On the other hand we would be very glad to have American officers accompany a Soviet plane.”
Accept [etc.]
Secretary of Embassy
- See footnote 85, p. 604.↩
- The orders given to General Bradley stated in part that the object of his mission was to “arrange for the delivery via Alaska of War-Aid airplanes to Siberia and Russia; arrange for United States survey flights to obtain detailed information pertaining to existing establishments in the Siberian areas; furnish to the Soviet Government information concerning the availability of aircraft in accordance with the Russian protocols and contemplated deliveries via the Siberian route.” (Quoted in William H. Standley and Arthur A. Ageton, Admiral Ambassador to Russia, pp. 250–251.)↩