811.2361/37: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Hamilton) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 4—10:58 a.m.]
1506. In a conversation on September 29 with the Chief of the American Section of the Foreign Office inquiry was made whether any information had yet been received concerning the crews of the seven American planes which landed recently on Kamchatka. We were informed that the Soviet authorities there had been asked to provide the names of the crew members and information concerning their welfare but that no reply had yet been received and that we would be informed as soon as the information was forthcoming.57
- Later on October 1, the Chief of the American Section (Zarubin) told Mr. Hamilton that all crew members were alive and well. On October 8 the names of the crew members, written phonetically in Russian, were supplied by the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.↩