Boris T. Pash Papers

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Register of the Boris T. Pash 72033 1 papers Title: Boris T. Pash papers Date (inclusive): 1892-1989 Collection Number: 72033 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 6 manuscript boxes, 5 envelopes, 1 oversize folder, 3 albums, 46 motion picture film reels(11.0 Linear Feet) Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, orders, writings, photographs, motion picture film, and printed matter relating to the naval forces of General Nikolay Yudenich during the Russian Civil War; the Russian refugee camp in Wünsdorf, Germany, in 1922; American military intelligence service activities, including the Baja Peninsula mission to investigate the possible establishment of a Japanese base in Mexico in 1942 and the Alsos mission to determine the status of German nuclear development in 1944-1945; and to allegations made in 1975 of the involvement of Boris T. Pash with Central Intelligence Agency assassination plots. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. Creator: Pash, Boris T., 1900-1995 Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972, with several increments received in subsequent years. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Boris T. Pash papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Alternate Forms Available Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 1900 June Born, San Francisco, California 20 1918-1920 Volunteer, Russian Imperial Army and Navy 1918-1922 Member, The International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations 1920 Employed by the American Red Cross, South Russian Unit, Sevastopol and Theodosia, Russia 1924 Graduated from Springfield College, Massachusetts, B.P.E. (Bachelor of Physical Education) 1924-1940 Chairman, Hollywood High School Athletic Department 1939 Graduated from University of Southern California, M.S. (Education) 1940-1943 Chief of Military Intelligence, U.S. Army, 9th Corps, Presidio of San Francisco 1943-1945 Commanding Officer of the Alsos Mission 1946-1947 Foreign Liaison Section Chief for Supreme Commander, Allied Powers, Japan 1948-1951 Employed by the Central Intelligence Agency 1952-1953 Special Forces, U.S. Forces, Austria 1953-1956 Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, 6th Army 1956-1957 Staff member, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Guided Missiles 1957 Retired from military service 1995 Died Scope and Content Note The Boris T. Pash papers reflect the military career of Pash from his time as a volunteer in the Russian Imperial Army and Navy in 1918 through his retirement as a colonel in the U.S. Army in 1957. Of special interest are the documents relating to the Alsos Mission, a U.S. Army intelligence unit based in Europe in 1944-1945, of which Boris Pash was commanding officer and whose object was to determine the status of German nuclear development. In addition to the manuscript material in the Alsos Mission file, there is a large number of photographs on the mission in the photographs series, including prints of the liberation of Paris and the surrender of Thanheim, Germany.

Register of the Boris T. Pash 72033 2 papers Also of interest are materials relating to the Foreign Liaison Section for the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers during the postwar occupation of Japan, 1945-1948, found in the subject file. See also, among the photographs, prints of Soviet armed forces in Tokyo. Subjects and Indexing Terms Motion pictures World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany Officers Atomic bomb Secret service -- United States Refugees World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Naval operations Russians -- Germany World War, 1939-1945 -- Mexico United States. Army United States. Central Intelligence Agency Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolayevich, 1862-1933

box 1 BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1918-1975 Scope and Contents note Clippings, letters, press releases, and other material reflecting the military career and civilian life of Boris Pash, arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 1 1918-1949 box 1, folder 2 1950-1975 box 1 CORRESPONDENCE 1892-1989 Scope and Contents note Letters and telegrams, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

Unidentified box 1, folder 3 1892-1893 box 1, folder 4 1951-1989 box 1, folder 5 American Red Cross 1920 box 1, folder 6 Anderson, H. D. 1925 box 1, folder 7 Barnes, John 1975 box 1, folder 8 Borah, William E. 1929 box 1, folder 9 Brander(?), Peter 1930 box 1, folder 10 Coney 1942 box 1, folder 11 Devers, Jacob L. 1963 box 1, folder 12 Einstein, Albert 1939 box 1, folder 13 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1963 box 1, folder 14 Emel'ianov, Ivan Vasil'evich 1919 box 1, folder 15 Gerlach, Walther 1975 box 1, folder 16 Golunsky, S. A. 1946 box 1, folder 17 Goudsmit, Samuel A. 1976 box 1, folder 18 Hambro, Charles 1955 box 1, folder 19 Heisenberg, Professor 1955 box 1, folder 20 Hermann, Armin 1976 box 1, folder 21 Hoover, John Edgar 1951 box 1, folder 22 International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations 1918-1922 box 1, folder 23 Johnson, Jesse 1975-1976

box 1, folder 24 Pierce, E. C. 1945 box 1, folder 25 Polette, Andre 1961 box 1, folder 26 Robb, Roger 1954 box 1, folder 27 Sinclair, Upton 1948-1949 box 1, folder 28 Societe Generale Metallurgique de Hoboken 1944 box 1, folder 29 Thomson, E. F. 1953 box 1, folder 30 U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1954 box 1, folder 31 Willoughby, C. A. 1949 box 1 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1959-1981 Scope and Contents note Speeches and writings by Boris Pash, arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 32 Handwritten notes on the 1920 evacuation of Crimea undated box 1, folder 33 "Checkmate," 1955 December 15 Scope and Contents note Typescript.

box 1, folder 34 "Checkmate! How the Soviets Tried to Take Over the Japanese Orthodox Church," The American Legion Magazine 1958 April Scope and Contents note Printed copy.

box 1, folder 35 "Why the Mental Panic?," 1959 March 19 Scope and Contents note Typescript.

box 1, folder 36 "Where Is the Soviet Union?," 1961 Scope and Contents note Holograph.

box 1, folder 37 "Communication," 1963 Scope and Contents note Typescript.

box 1, folder 38 The Alsos Mission 1969 Scope and Contents note Printed copy of review.

box 1, folder 39 Statement to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1976 January 7 Scope and Contents note Typescript.

box 1, folder 40 Statement to the U.S. Congressional Commission on Wartime Relocation of Persons of Japanese Background in the U.S. at a public hearing 1981 August 11 Scope and Contents note Typescript.

ALSOS MISSION FILE 1943-1976 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, memoranda, diary, reports, notes, clippings, and other material relating to the operations of the Alsos Mission, arranged alphabetically by physical form.

General Scope and Contents note Correspondence, memoranda, orders, reports, notes, clippings, printed matter, and other material.

box 1, folder 41 Undated box 1, folder 42 1943 box 2, folder 1-2 1944 box 2, folder 3-4 1945 box 2, folder 5 Article by V. Gilenson 1962 Scope and Contents note Relates to U.S. military intelligence, including the Alsos Mission, during World War II.

box 2, folder 6 Chronology box 2, folder 7 Diary (Germany) 1945 March-July Scope and Contents note Written by an unidentified member of the Alsos Mission.

box 2, folder 8 History box 2, folder 9 List of personnel of interest Subject file box 2, folder 10 DSM Project box 2, folder 11 Exposure to radioactivity box 2, folder 12 Radium supply Recommendations box 2, folder 13 Legion of Merit Award 1945 box 3, folder 1 Distinguished Service Medal 1976 World War 1939-1945 box 3, folder 2 Germany box 3, folder 3 Military attaches - United States 1945 April-May Scope and Contents note Memoranda of the U.S. Military Attache in London.

SUBJECT FILE 1894-1976 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, memoranda, orders, reports, and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by subject.

box 3, folder 4 Baja Peninsula Intelligence Mission 1942 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, maps, and progress reports.

box 3, folder 5 Espionage 1947 January 20 Scope and Contents note Memorandum. Includes case of suspected German agent Dr. Kayl.

box 3, folder 6 Heisenberg, Werner 1943 October 15 Scope and Contents note Certificate signed by Adolf Hitler awarding Heisenberg the 1st class cross for war service.

box 3, folder 7 Japan - History - Allied occupation, 1945-1952, Kurganov, Oskar, Amerikantsy v Iaponii, Sovetskii pisatel', Leningrad 1947 box 3, folder 8 Kulaev, Ivan Vasil'evich

box 3, folder 9 Leningrad Scope and Contents note Maps.

map_case case Leningrad (continued) box 3, folder 10 Nikolaevskii Engineering Adademy, required courses for entrance 1894 February box 3, folder 11 Russkaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov' - United States 1963 Scope and Contents note Dedication of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, Washington, D.C.

box 3, folder 12 Siberia (Russia) - History - Revolution, 1917-1921 undated Scope and Contents note Typescript by Gail Berg Reitzel, entitled "Shifting Scenes in Siberia."

Soviet Union - History - Revolution, 1917-1921 box 3, General folder 13-14 box 3, folder 15 American National Red Cross operations 1920 Evacuation of Crimea box 3, folder 16 1919 box 4, folder 1 1920 box 4, folder 2 Subversive activities - Soviet Union box 4, folder 3 Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Foreign Liaison Section, Tokyo 1946-1948 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to Soviet diplomatic and military personnel in Japan.

World War, 1939-1945 box 4, folder 4 France - Paris box 4, folder 5-6 U.S. Army. 6th Army Group. G-3 Section. "World War II - Final Report," 1945 July box 4, folder 7 Miscellany box 4, folder 8 SLIDES 1963 Scope and Contents note 21 color slides depicting the dedication ceremony of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicolas in Washington, D.C.

box 4, folder 9 MEMORABILIA undated Scope and Contents note Five military insignia patches.

photo file PHOTOGRAPHS 1916-1963 Scope and Contents note Photographs depicting the private life and military career of Boris Pash, arranged by subject.

box 4, folder 10 1 album of 105 prints depicting Boris Pash and family and Russian military personnel 1916-1933 box 5, folder 1 38 postcards depicting various scenes in Russia, including Chernigov and Nizhnii-Novgorod 1917-1919 box 5, folder 2 7 prints depicting the evacuation of Crimea 1919-1920 box 5, folder 3 38 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission 1944-1945 box 5, folder 4 48 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission 1944-1945 box 5, folder 5 73 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission 1944-1945 box 5, folder 6 63 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission 1944-1945

box 5, folder 7 48 prints depicting scenes in Japan during the Allied Occupation 1946-1948 Scope and Contents note Includes prints of Soviet and U.S. military personnel.

box 5, folder 8 32 prints of Boris Pash and others in Panama 1950s box 5, folder 9 32 prints depicting scenes in the Soviet Union 1917-1921 box 5, 64 prints depicting U.S. armed forces in Germany 1943-1947 folder 10-11 box 5, folder 12 8 prints depicting U.S. armed forces in France after World War II circa 1946-1948 box 5, folder 13 6 prints of Boris Pash and others after his retirement from the military 1960s-1970s box 6, folder 1 35 prints depicting U.S. armed forces in France and Germany 1945 envelope A-B 211 prints from a photo album relating to the Alsos Mission 1944-1945 Scope and Contents note Includes photos of Paris at the time of its liberation and the surrender of Thanheim, Germany.

envelope C 13 prints of Russian Imperial Navy training ships in the Baltic and Black Seas, and scenes of a Russian refugee camp in Wunsdorf, Germany 1905-1907, 1922 album fD 1 album of 132 prints depicting Boris Pash's military service under General N. Yudenich, White Russian Naval Forces 1920-1923 album fE, fF 2 albums of prints depicting the Russian refugee camp in Wunsdorf, Germany 1922 envelope G 32 negatives of photographs taken of each page of the album described in "D" above envelope H 8 prints of a social event sponsored by the Foreign Liaison Section, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, for representatives of the Four Power Occupational Forces circa 1947 film shelf MOTION PICTURE FILM 1936-1945 Scope and Contents note 46 motion picture reels (includes duplicates) primarily depicting U.S. military operations in Europe.

reel Film Shelf Reel 1: Nr. 1 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 250 feet 1936 reel Film Shelf Reel 2: Nr. 2 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 250 feet 1937 reel Film Shelf Reel 3: World news, arms race, Spanish Civil War, annexation of Austria, Nr. 3 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 400 feet 1937-1938 reel Film Shelf Reel 4: Monatsschau, Nr. 4 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 400 feet 1938 reel Film Shelf Reel 5: Nr. 5 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 380 feet 1938-1939 reel Film Shelf Reel 6: Construction of Siegfried Line, Nr. 6 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 450 feet 1939 reel Film Shelf Reel 7: Bombing of England, submarine operations, Nazi heavy cruiser - 16mm film, 500 feet 1939 reel Film Shelf Reel 8: Battle for Flanders, Armistice signing - 16mm film, 375 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 9: Nazi entry into Paris, Nazi conquest of France, Armistice signing at Compiegne, top-Nazi entry into Paris (second copy) - two 16mm film reels, 150 feet 1940 reel Film Shelf Reel 10: Conquest of Belgium, war in Poland - 16mm film, 500 feet 1940 reel Film Shelf Reel 11: Five-day conquest of Holland - 16mm film, 100 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 12: North Sea Battle, attack on Crete, advance into the Soviet Union, Minsk - 16mm film, 200 feet 1940 reel Film Shelf Reel 13: North Sea Battle, attack on Crete, advance into the Soviet Union, Minsk - 16mm film, 25 feet reel Film Shelf No. 13: North Sea Battle, attack on Crete, advance into the Soviet Union, Minsk - 16mm film, 475 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 14: "World War II Assault on the Maginot Line," produced by Degeto - 16mm film, 200 feet reel Film Shelf Olympische Spiels - 1936, launching of the Scharnhorst etc. - 1936, Nr. 10 - 1936, Nr. 9 - 1937, Nr. 10 - 1937 / Schmalfilm-Monatsschau - 1940: Nr. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 / "Deutschlands Heer" - 16mm film 1936-1937, 1940

reel Film Shelf Duplicate II/ 1-6, reel 1 - 16mm film, 300 feet reel Film Shelf Duplicate II/ 1-6, reel 2 - 16mm film, 875 feet reel Film Shelf Duplicate II/ 1-6, reel 3 - 16mm film, 1150 feet reel Film Shelf Olympics, rolls 1-7 - 16mm film, 1015 feet, 1936 reel Film Shelf Deutsche Reichswehr Manoverbilder - 16mm film, 50 feet reel Film Shelf Cross section of Olympics (note from 1996: Film of aerial shot of battleship) - 16mm film, 50 feet 1937 reel Film Shelf Pre WWII military planes firing practice (German) - 16mm film, 50 feet reel Film Shelf From Steelblocks to Fine Tin - 16mm film, 50 feet reel Film Shelf Schmalfilm-Monatsschau, Nr. 11 - 1935, Nr. 9 - 1936, Nr 11. - 1936 - three 16mm film reels 1935-1936 reel Film Shelf Nazi Campaign in Poland, helgoland, Finnlands Hauptstadt (fragment) - three 16mm film reels reel Film Shelf Papal Rome, the bomb plot against Hitler, air force exercise, Hitler's birthday, Rome of the Oscars, paratroopers, birthday of the King of England - three 16mm film reels 1936

onsite digital Alsos Mission Films 1943-1945 Scope and Contents Footage documenting the secret task force that investigated Nazi Germany's atomic bomb program and secured the surrender of Thanheim during World War II.

reel Film Shelf Reel 15: Alsos Mission, reel 1 - 16mm film, 450 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 16: Alsos Mission, reel 2 - 16mm film, 450 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 17: Alsos Mission, reel 3 - 16mm film, 420 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 18: Alsos Mission, reel 4 - 16mm film, 400 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 19: Copy 2, reel 1 / Alsos Mission, reel 5, reel 1 of 4 - 16mm film, 400 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 20: Copy 2, reel 2 / Alsos Mission, reel 6, reel 2 of 4 - 16mm film, 400 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 21: Copy 2, reel 3 / Alsos Mission, reel 7, reel 3 of 4 - 16mm film, 400 feet reel Film Shelf Reel 22: Copy 2, reel 4 / Alsos Mission, reel 8, reel 4 of 4 / Nr. 22 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 375 feet box 6, DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS 1944-1946 onsite digital Scope and Contents note Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Includes some interfiled unclassified government records. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover.

box 6, folder 2-3 2015 December release of records 1944-1946 Scope and Contents note Diary, orders, correspondence, passes, and forms relating to J. M. Barnes, Royal Army Medical Corps (British Army), and his participation in the Alsos Mission. Also includes a map of Toulouse, France with negatives.

onsite digital 2017 release of records 1943-1945 Scope and Contents note Correspondence and memoranda related to Pash's military assignments and the Alsos Mission.

Memo from H. L. Allen, "Travel Orders," 1943 December 14 Memo from W. C. McMillion, "Orders," regarding Pash assignment 1944 April 4 Memo from W. C. McMillion, "Orders," regarding Pash assignment 1944 April 25 Memo, "Movement Orders," 1944 May 26 Memo from Russell S. Hahn, "Orders," 1944 June 29

Register of the Boris T. Pash 72033 8 papers DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS 1944-1946 2017 release of records 1943-1945

Memo from John S. Weckerling, "Commendation on ALSOS Mission Report of 4 March 1944," 1944 July 25 Letter from J. C. Hunsaker to Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 1945 June 29 Letter from Charles Hornbro 1945 July 26 Leslie R. Groves letter to Dr. Vannevar Bush 1945 August 14 Vannevar Bush letter to Dr. S. A. Goudsmit 1945 September 4 Vannevar Bush letter to Clayton Bissell 1945 September 12 Memo from Feodor O. Schmidt, "Award for Colonel Boris T. Pash," 1945 December 5 Memo from Pash to Chief, Military Intelligence Service, "Final Report, ALSOS Mission," 1945 December 10