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Cambridge Five Member Provides Information on UK, US, and Chinese Efforts to Encourage the USSR to Declare War on Japan

In a post from yesterday, we reported on the West’s efforts to convince the Soviet Union to declare war against Japan after the latter’s 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, stressing that it would offer the US a chance to make use of prime Soviet real estate in the Far East (to wit, SovietContinueContinue reading “Cambridge Five Member Provides Information on UK, US, and Chinese Efforts to Encourage the USSR to Declare War on Japan”

1941: Soviet Agent Reports West Wants USSR to Declare War on Japan to Open Military Bases in Far East for the Americans

A brief Top Secret cipher telegram was sent by Soviet agent VADIM from London on 10 December 1941, three days after the US naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan. The report cites an 8 December wire sent by Halifax, in which he outlines a conversation with US Assistant Secretary of State DeanContinueContinue reading “1941: Soviet Agent Reports West Wants USSR to Declare War on Japan to Open Military Bases in Far East for the Americans”