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Флот; 1941;
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Вот, немного на басурманском:
THE BOLSHEVIK?
THE FAYMONVILLE CONTROVERSY IN THE 1930s AND 1940s
by
Steven Michael Thompson, B.A.
Texas State University-San Marcos
"Brigadier General Philip Faymonville is a controversial figure in the
history of World War II. His services were highly valued by Roosevelt and
Harry Hopkins even as he was reviled by those in the American Embassy in
Moscow by both those in the State Department and the War Department. He
may have been an effective overseer of Lend Lease operations in the Soviet
Union and the sole attaché officer who predicted the eventual triumph of the Red
Army, but he was still the target of accusations of communist sympathy and
even working for the Soviets as their agent."
……..
This report is recorded in Foreign Relations of the United
States. In this lengthy report, Davies recounted some meetings he had with Soviet
officials. In a section of the report, Davies reported on a conference he had with
Stalin and the Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Molotov, on June 5, 1938. At this
conference Davies was asked about who the liaison officer would be, as they were
concerned about the "lack of goodwill or the disinterestedness of some diplomatic
representatives toward the Soviet Union." Davies noted that since Loy
Henderson was to return to the United States shortly, the military attaché,
Lieutenant Colonel Faymonville, was available. Davies said that he had "every
confidence" in Faymonville's "good judgment, intelligence and character." Stalin
and Molotov responded by speaking "very highly of Lieutenant Colonel
Faymonville's fairness, objectivity, ability intelligence and stated that they found
no objection to him."
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There were those with different designs for Colonel Faymonville,
however. One of these was the Army Chief of Staff, General Malin Craig, who
weighed in with his own opinion concerning Faymonville in a February 1, 1939
memorandum for the President. In it, Craig rejected Faymonville's request andsuggested that he should return to the United States. According to Craig,
"Colonel Faymonville is already on a one-year extension of his four-year tour as
Military Attaché in Russia. He has been of no use to the War Department for
approximately a year" though General Craig calls his previous work there
"helpful."
He closed the letter by reiterating that "Under the
circumstances, it is my opinion that Colonel Faymonville should obey his present
orders and come home, for the reason is that his usefulness...in Russia has been
nil for a long time."
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"Though it is unclear precisely what military information Faymonville may have
been conveying to the Soviets, the Russian archives indicate that "the Soviet
military used Faymonville as a kind of super military agent." This implies that
the Soviets were indeed on very good terms with him and thought quite highly
of him. Though nothing can be found as of yet indicating that sensitive
information was being passed from Faymonville to Soviet military authorities, it
seems that the concerns of the State Department and the War Department were
justified to a degree."
https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/4183/THOMPSON-THESIS.pdf?sequence=1