10
Stephen Skubik, Speech; “Aberman synagogue 39 years later,”
Keene Sentinel,
July 6, 1984.
12
Email from Theubert to Mark Skubik dated July 8, 2006.
13
The encased numbers here are mine.
14
His service record, obtained at the National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, says he was born October 3, 1915 in Linden, N.J., and both his birth parents had been born in Austria-Hungary.
15
Obituary,
Ukrainian (National) Weekly
, October 6, 1996. Also confirmed by his family.
16
Information on this is scarce because it was such a secret program. But one source which talks about it is
The Friends: Britain’s Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations
by Nigel West, (Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 2005), 66-68. I obtained the formerly CIA-classified book at the National Archives under their new CIA-sponsored program which allows researchers to look up subjects on CIA-controlled computers. See also Peter Grose,
Operation Rollback: America’s Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain
(Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
18
CIA “Studies in Intelligence,” Vol. 19, No. 3, Fall, pages 2-8, available at National Archives.
20
Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(New York: Berkley, 1981), 50.
22
Martin Blumenson,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974);
Last Days,
59-60, among other sources.
24
For a concise, impartial look at this controversy see Alan Axelrod,
Patton: A Biography
(Palgrave Macmillen, 2006), 127-129.
25
Fred Ayer Jr.,
Before the Colors Fade
(Dunwoody: Norman S. Berg, publisher, 1971).
26
Stephen J. Skubik,
Death: The Murder of General Patton
; (Bennington: self published, 1993), foreword.
27
Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan
(Vintage, 1984).
28
The Murder of General Patton,
35.
31
Gay Diary, April 20, 1945, Carlisle Barracks.
32
Col. Charles R. Codman,
Drive
(Atlantic-Little Brown, 1957), 293.
33
George S. Patton Jr.,
War as I Knew It
(New York: Bantam, 1980), 290.
34
Patton’s Last Battle,
166.
35
Patton diary entry for “April 20, 1945,” Library of Congress.
36
Gay Diary entry for April 20, 1945, U.S. Army War College center, Carlisle, Pa.
37
Ladislas Farago,
Ordeal and Triumph
(Dell, 1970), 787.
38
Emails from Maciej Stanecki, a graduate student at both Warsaw University and Poland’s National Academy of Defense.
39
Communication from Rene J. Defourneaux, former OSS officer and author, who forwarded the information from a current RAF-USAF representative in France.
40
See the recently declassified article, “Soviet Use of Assassination and Kidnapping,” in the Fall 1975 issue of CIA’s
Studies in Intelligence,
for one.
41
His diary was unclear about the location of the incident.
43
The Murder of Patton,
113,117.
44
Patton’s Last Battle,
183-184.
46
Death: The Murder of General Patton,
17.
47
Arms of Valor,
Chapter 30, paragraph 2.
48
Death: The Murder of General Patton,
17.
53
John O. Koehler,
STASI: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
(Westview Press, 1999), 36-45.
54
The Murder of Patton,
20-22.
Chapter Eight: Strange Bedfellows
1
Allen Weinstein, and Alexander Vassiliev,
The Haunted Wood
(Modern Library, 2000), 238-239. Vassiliev is a former KGB agent. He and Weinstein had access to Russian intelligence archives which were briefly opened to certain researchers during the 1990s.
3
On microfilm at Carlisle Barracks.
4
Edward Jay Epstein,
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer
(Da Capo Press, 1999).
5
Armand Hammer to Bill Donovan, September 11, 1941.
6
Bradley F. Smith, S
haring Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941-1945
(University Press of Kansas, 1996), 78 & 116; Bradley F. Smith,
The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA
(Basic Books, Inc., 1983), 339.
7
Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero:Wild Bill Donovan
(Vintage, 1984), 417-418 for FDR’s pro-Soviet views and Donovan’s adherence to them.
8
The secret interoffice memo is from “William A. Kimmel” and addressed “Colonel Donovan.” Another discussing the same thing is dated 1/15/43 and is addressed to “Major David Bruce,” who would head OSS’s London office, from “Calvin B. Hoover.” Microfilm, Carlisle Barracks.
9
May 4, 1943 OSS “office memorandum” from “Emmy C. Rado” to Donovan. Microfilm, Carlisle Barracks.
10
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
(Basic Books, 1999), 143.; Joseph Persico,
Piercing The Reich: the penetration of Nazi Germany by American secret agents during World War II
. (Ballantine Books, 1979), 209.
11
“Memorandum of Conversation at the Commissariat for Internal Affairs,” December 27, 1947; John Mendelsohn,
The OSS-NKVD Relationship 1943-1945,
(Scholars Review, 1987).
12
David E. Murphy, Kondrashev, Sergei A.; Bailey, George;
Battleground Berlin: CIA vs KGB in the Cold War
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 3-4.
13
Available in a variety of sources including Mendelson’s “OSS-NKVD Relationship” and on the CIA website under “OSS-NKVD Liaison.”
14
Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindell,
The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000).
15
Mitrohkin
, 782, footnote 40.
18
Elizabeth Bentley,
Out of Bondage
, (Ballantine Books, 1988). She tells about becoming disillusioned with the communists.
19
For more on the D-Day revelations see
The Haunted Wood
, 258.
20
Robert Novak, “Stalin’s Agents,”
The Weekly Standard
, December 25, 2000.
22
A Russian intelligence report quoted in
The Haunted Wood
, 242-243.
23
Joseph Persico,
Roosevelt’s Secret War
, (Random House, 2001), 291.
24
The Last Hero
, 228-230, for an account of the break-in.
25
Roosevelt’s Secret War
, 292.
27
Footnote 9, in a 9 March 1944 “Memorandum for the President”; Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 7, no. 1, Winter 1963, 63-74, with the ftnt on page 70.
29
Memo found amongst the Donovan papers at Carlisle Barracks.
30
“Memorandum for the President,” 349-351.
32
OSS-NKVD Relationship, document 102, Letter from Maj. Gen. John R. Deane to NKVD Col. A.G. Grauer, 9 January 1945.
33
Ibid., document 106, Letter from Lt. Gen. P. M. Fitin to Maj. Gen. John R. Deane, 15 February 1945.
35
OSS-NKVD Relationship, document 108, Letter from Lt. Gen. P..M. Fitin to Maj. Gen. John R. Deane, 26 February 1945.
36
Ibid., document 110, Letter from Lt. Gen. P. M. Fitin to Maj. Gen. John R. Deane, 9 April 1945.
37
Ibid., documents 111-114, letters involving various, including Fitin, 14 - 18 April 1945.
38
Ibid., document numbers 115-116, letters from Kennan dated 12 and 18 May 1945 respectively.
39
CIA brief titled “Background of Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl,” 5 August 1949, National Archives.
40
CIA “special collections” document “Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl” acquired at the National Archives. This one is 10 pages and has “Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act 2000” stamped on it.
41
Page 753. Cave-Brown, obviously pro-Donovan, sounds like he’s making excuses here.
43
“11 July 1945 PRIORITY” cable to “US EMBASSY MOSCOW for DEANE from DONOVAN OSS.” It is Document 117 in OSS-NKVD Relationship.
44
Document 130 in OSS-NKVD Relationship. The italics are mine.
46
OSS-NKVD Relationship, Document 124.
49
OSS-NKVD Relationship, Document 132.
53
For more on the Park report, see
The Last Hero
, 792-793.
55
FBI File #: 77-58706, Part 1, WFO (77-44319) 14 (obtainable at FBI website).
Chapter Nine: Dancing with the Devil
1
C.R. McCormick to author, email August 2, 2005. U.S. Army Intelligence Museum, Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. Mr. McCormick writes, “A roster of 970th CIC Det personnel, 7 Dec 1945, shows Skubik as a Sgt., date of rank 3 Nov 1945.” I was later to find the roster myself at the National Archives.
2
Stephen J. Skubik,
Death: The Murder of General Patton;
(Bennington: self published, 1993). Foreword and 111.
3
Skubik, op. cit., 32-34.
Chapter Ten: NKVD
1
Stephen J. Skubik,
Death: The Murder of General Patton
; (Bennington: self published, 1993).
2
It’s a 1935 model 853. It is at the Moscow Museum of Antique Cars & Motorcycles and has “starred in 25 films.” Other references say Goering owned a 1938 Horch.
4
This was another of those newly deposited papers obtained by the archives from Ft. Meade and/or the CIA. This one was declassified through the recent “Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act” and has on its front “This dossier is continued from the last reels,” indicating it comes from microfilm and there is earlier material I do not have. My notes on the back identify the file as, “Davidov, Alexander D035079. CIC-CIA”
5
Dr. Mark Elliott, “The Soviet Repatriation Campaign,” Wsevolod W. Isajiw, Yury Boshyk, and Roman Senkus, eds.,
The Refugee Experience: Ukrainian Displaced Persons after World War II
(CIUS Press, 1995).
6
A document in the “Davidov, Alexander Do35079. CIC-CIA” file dated “15 Feb 46” and signed by an agent “Fiedler” (it is impossible to make out the faint first initials)
from the “Weiden Sub-Regional Office.”
7
This report is repeated in several different documents I found, the earliest of which seems to be 4 December 1945, Headquarters Seventh Army.” My note on the back gives the following citation: RG 319, IRR Impersonal Files, Box 50, “Subversive Activities of USSR Officers,” ZF011636.
8
“19 January 1946, USFAT G-2 Division, Counterintelligence Branch” report from RG 319, IRR Impersonal Files, Box 50, “Subversive Activities of USSR Officers,” ZF011636.
9
Letter in the “Davidov, Alexander D035079” file.
11
I received it from David Mengel of the archives’ FOIA staff in response to an FOIA request I made.
12
Skubik, op. cit., 42-44.
Chapter Eleven: Mystery at Mannheim
1
According to its official history, dated “30 January 1946,” National Archives.
2
24 August 1945, according to its unit history.
3
Ned Snyder, “Death of Patton—II Army doctor at accident scene,” December 1987, an article Snyder published in
Military
magazine; Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(New York: Berkley, 1981), 228.