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Memorandum by Mr. Merritt N. Cootes, of the Division of Eastern European Affairs, to the Aviation Division
The Counselor of the Soviet Embassy called to say that the Soviet delegation to the Civil Aviation Conference, which is to take place at Chicago, plan to arrive in the United States in a Soviet military plane. The plane, which left Moscow on October 22, is a C–47 type of the Red Army, no. 940.
The crew of the plane is as follows:
- Grigori Stanislatovich Benkunski
- Fedor Kondratevich Kudrenko
- Nikolai Grigorevich Maksimenko
- Aleksei Antonovich Malstev
The delegation consists of Nikolai Asilevich Novikov, Vice Chairman; Major Generals Aleksandr A. Avseevich, Pavel Fedorovich Berezin, Aleksandr Romanovich Perminov and Ivan Mikhailovich Makarov; and Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Ivanovich Kokonin.
It would be appreciated if AD would issue the necessary permit for the plane to fly over United States territory and would request the War Department to make all of the usual arrangements for the proper reception of the plane when it arrives in Alaska.
(Note: The Embassy in Moscow has informed the Department that diplomatic visas have been issued to the members of the delegation and that official visas have been issued to the members of the crew.)