The following is a translation of a brief Top Secret encrypted telegram dated 27 August 1941 from Shanghai regarding the concentration of two and a half million Japanese soldiers in Manchuria and Mongolia and regarding Japan’s plans to attack the USSR in the coming days. The identity of the original source of the information, SEMENOV,ContinueContinue reading “August 1941: Reports of Imminent Japanese Attack on the USSR from Agent in Shanghai”
Unpublished Declassified Soviet Archives
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