Office of the Historian

701.6111/1141: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Second Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union (Thompson), at Moscow

Washington, August 20, 1942—6 p.m.

234. Reference Embassy’s 307, August 18, 11 a.m., from Moscow. The two Soviet couriers are scheduled to depart August 21 by way of Brazil and Africa together with Mrs. Oumansky32 and daughter.

The War Department has informally agreed to make available air accommodations for two Soviet couriers every other month as desired by the Soviet Government, and formal reply to the Department’s request in this regard is expected soon.33

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  1. Wife of Konstantin Alexandrovich Umansky, Soviet Ambassador in the United States, 1939–41.↩
  2. This agreement for the travel of Soviet couriers between Washington and Tehran in the airplanes of the Air Transport Command was received in a letter of September 8, 1942, from Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War (701.6111/1145).↩