Department of the Army Files: Telegram

No. 990
The Military Attaché in Sweden (Kessler) to the War Department1

secret
priority

667. For ComGenAir MilID Washington D. C.

Russian Delegation here conducted survey of interned German aircraft presumably those coining here from German Soviet front. Russians propose to fly these out shortly as war booty. Their plans have been publicized in newspapers. See my 591 of 26 June and your 28542 of 7 July.2 Newspapers also carried item that neither UK or US have made request concerning remainder.

Kessler
  1. Received by the United States Delegation to the Berlin Conference on July 25 as a retransmission from the War Department.
  2. Neither printed.