361.1121/27: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 15—11:55 a.m.]
1502. Department’s 967, August 13, 4 p.m.13 The Commissariat for Foreign Affairs has advised me today that it has been unable to obtain any information as to the present whereabouts of Putkowski14 and Devenis. It assumes, however, that as they were located in Lwow and Vilnius, respectively, at the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, and as these cities were occupied by the Germans during the first days of hostilities, they are no longer under the control of the Soviet authorities.
No information is available in the Wagshal case beyond that contained in the Embassy’s 1147 of June 14, 3 p.m.13
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- On August 21, 1941, in telegram No. 2273, the Department instructed the Embassy at Berlin to seek information regarding the whereabouts of Dr. Witold Putkowski, and the possibility of his immediate repatriation (361.1121/27). In reply, by telegram No. 3302, August 27, 1941, the Chargé advised that it was impossible to undertake this investigation for the present in the existing circumstances (361.1121/28).↩
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