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Title: Boris T. Pash papers
Date (inclusive): 1892-1989
Collection Number: 72033
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes, 5 envelopes, 1 oversize folder, 3 albums, 46 motion picture film reels
(11.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, orders, writings, photographs, motion picture film, and printed matter relating to the
naval forces of General Nikolay Yudenich during the Russian Civil War; the Russian refugee camp in Wünsdorf, Germany, in 1922;
American military intelligence service activities, including the Baja Peninsula mission to investigate the possible establishment
of a Japanese base in Mexico in 1942 and the Alsos mission to determine the status of German nuclear development in 1944-1945;
and to allegations made in 1975 of the involvement of Boris T. Pash with Central Intelligence Agency assassination plots.
Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Creator:
Pash, Boris T., 1900-1995
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972, with several increments received in subsequent
years.
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[Identification of item], Boris T. Pash papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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Biographical Note
1900 June 20 |
Born, San Francisco, California |
1918-1920 |
Volunteer, Russian Imperial Army and Navy |
1918-1922 |
Member, The International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations |
1920 |
Employed by the American Red Cross, South Russian Unit, Sevastopol and Theodosia, Russia |
1924 |
Graduated from Springfield College, Massachusetts, B.P.E. (Bachelor of Physical Education) |
1924-1940 |
Chairman, Hollywood High School Athletic Department |
1939 |
Graduated from University of Southern California, M.S. (Education) |
1940-1943 |
Chief of Military Intelligence, U.S. Army, 9th Corps, Presidio of San Francisco |
1943-1945 |
Commanding Officer of the Alsos Mission |
1946-1947 |
Foreign Liaison Section Chief for Supreme Commander, Allied Powers, Japan |
1948-1951 |
Employed by the Central Intelligence Agency |
1952-1953 |
Special Forces, U.S. Forces, Austria |
1953-1956 |
Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, 6th Army |
1956-1957 |
Staff member, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Guided Missiles |
1957 |
Retired from military service |
1995 |
Died |
Scope and Content Note
The Boris T. Pash papers reflect the military career of Pash from his time as a volunteer in the Russian Imperial Army and
Navy in 1918 through his retirement as a colonel in the U.S. Army in 1957.
Of special interest are the documents relating to the Alsos Mission, a U.S. Army intelligence unit based in Europe in 1944-1945,
of which Boris Pash was commanding officer and whose object was to determine the status of German nuclear development. In
addition to the manuscript material in the Alsos Mission file, there is a large number of photographs on the mission in the
photographs series, including prints of the liberation of Paris and the surrender of Thanheim, Germany.
Also of interest are materials relating to the Foreign Liaison Section for the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers during
the postwar occupation of Japan, 1945-1948, found in the subject file. See also, among the photographs, prints of Soviet armed
forces in Tokyo.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion pictures
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
Officers
Atomic bomb
Secret service -- United States
Refugees
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Naval operations
Russians -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Mexico
United States. Army
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolayevich, 1862-1933