Office of the Historian

862.20211/7–1846: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Smith)

Washington, July 18, 1946.

1312. Sov. Navy Lieut. Nicolai Redin acquitted July 17 by US Federal Court jury on espionage and conspiracy charges. Further info re trial and newspaper reports will be forwarded Emb.19

Byrnes
  1. Further information and newspaper clippings were enclosed in instruction 1296, July 26, 1946, to Moscow, not printed. Redin’s trial was held in Seattle before Federal District Judge Lloyd Black. On July 17, the jury acquitted Redin on all charges. According to newspaper reports he expressed his thanks for a fair trial.↩