Cripps Stafford

1889 – 1952

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about his conversation with British Minister of Economic Warfare H. Dalton regarding the organisation of Anglo-Soviet trade talks, the activities of the USSR in Eastern Europe and the possibility of France’s capitulation

18 June 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 325, fold. 2235, ff. 1–3.

Certified copy

Personal letter from British Prime Minister W. Churchill to J. Stalin about Germany’s decision not to redeploy tank divisions from Romania to Southern Poland due to the coup in Yugoslavia with a cover letter from British Ambassador to the USSR S. Cripps to Soviet First Deputy People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs A. Vyshinsky

[3 April 1941]

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 255, ff. 6–9.

Cover letter in English – original. Attachment in English – copy. Translations from English, contemporary to the originals

Cipher telegram from Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain I. Maisky to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about his conversation with British Foreign Secretary A. Eden, who notified him in the name of the British government about the concentration of German troops on the Soviet border

13 June 1941

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 352, fold. 2402, ff. 206–203.

Certified copy

TASS communiqué on Soviet-German relations published in the newspaper Pravda on 14 June 1941

[13 June 1941]

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 64, fold. 675, ff. 177–178.

Certified copy

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of State Security V. Merkulov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs about the start of evacuation of the personnel of British and Italian Embassies and their families

18 June 1941

Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of Russia

Coll. 3os, ser. 8, fold. 58, ff. 1949–1951.

Copy