Register of the Boris T. Pash papers
Finding aid prepared by Ronald Bulatoff, revised by Vishnu Jani
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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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
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972, with several increments received in subsequent
years.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Boris T. Pash papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Alternate Forms Available
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
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE
1918-1975
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, letters, press releases, and other material reflecting the military career and civilian life of Boris Pash, arranged
chronologically.
CORRESPONDENCE
1892-1989
Scope and Contents note
Letters and telegrams, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
box 1, folder 13
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1963
box 1, folder 14
Emel'ianov, Ivan Vasil'evich
1919
box 1, folder 19
Heisenberg, Professor
1955
box 1, folder 22
International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations
1918-1922
box 1, folder 27
Sinclair, Upton
1948-1949
box 1, folder 28
Societe Generale Metallurgique de Hoboken
1944
box 1, folder 30
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
1954
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1959-1981
Scope and Contents note
Speeches and writings by Boris Pash, arranged chronologically.
box 1, folder 32
Handwritten notes on the 1920 evacuation of Crimea
undated
box 1, folder 33
"Checkmate,"
1955 December 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript.
box 1, folder 34
"Checkmate! How the Soviets Tried to Take Over the Japanese Orthodox Church,"
The American Legion Magazine
1958 April
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy.
box 1, folder 35
"Why the Mental Panic?,"
1959 March 19
Scope and Contents note
Typescript.
box 1, folder 36
"Where Is the Soviet Union?,"
1961
Scope and Contents note
Holograph.
box 1, folder 37
"Communication,"
1963
Scope and Contents note
Typescript.
box 1, folder 38
The Alsos Mission
1969
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy of review.
box 1, folder 39
Statement to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 January 7
Scope and Contents note
Typescript.
box 1, folder 40
Statement to the U.S. Congressional Commission on Wartime Relocation of Persons of Japanese Background in the U.S. at a public
hearing
1981 August 11
Scope and Contents note
Typescript.
ALSOS MISSION FILE
1943-1976
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, diary, reports, notes, clippings, and other material relating to the operations of the Alsos Mission,
arranged alphabetically by physical form.
General
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, orders, reports, notes, clippings, printed matter, and other material.
box 2, folder 5
Article by V. Gilenson
1962
Scope and Contents note
Relates to U.S. military intelligence, including the Alsos Mission, during World War II.
box 2, folder 7
Diary (Germany)
1945 March-July
Scope and Contents note
Written by an unidentified member of the Alsos Mission.
box 2, folder 9
List of personnel of interest
box 2, folder 11
Exposure to radioactivity
box 2, folder 13
Legion of Merit Award
1945
box 3, folder 1
Distinguished Service Medal
1976
box 3, folder 3
Military attaches - United States
1945 April-May
Scope and Contents note
Memoranda of the U.S. Military Attache in London.
SUBJECT FILE
1894-1976
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, orders, reports, and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 3, folder 4
Baja Peninsula Intelligence Mission
1942
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, maps, and progress reports.
box 3, folder 5
Espionage
1947 January 20
Scope and Contents note
Memorandum. Includes case of suspected German agent Dr. Kayl.
box 3, folder 6
Heisenberg, Werner
1943 October 15
Scope and Contents note
Certificate signed by Adolf Hitler awarding Heisenberg the 1st class cross for war service.
box 3, folder 7
Japan - History - Allied occupation, 1945-1952, Kurganov, Oskar,
Amerikantsy v Iaponii, Sovetskii pisatel', Leningrad
1947
box 3, folder 9
Leningrad
Scope and Contents note
Maps.
box 3, folder 10
Nikolaevskii Engineering Adademy, required courses for entrance
1894 February
box 3, folder 11
Russkaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov' - United States
1963
Scope and Contents note
Dedication of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, Washington, D.C.
box 3, folder 12
Siberia (Russia) - History - Revolution, 1917-1921
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript by Gail Berg Reitzel, entitled "Shifting Scenes in Siberia."
Soviet Union - History - Revolution, 1917-1921
box 3, folder 15
American National Red Cross operations
1920
box 4, folder 2
Subversive activities - Soviet Union
box 4, folder 3
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Foreign Liaison Section, Tokyo
1946-1948
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to Soviet diplomatic and military personnel in Japan.
box 4, folder 5-6
U.S. Army. 6th Army Group. G-3 Section. "World War II - Final Report,"
1945 July
box 4, folder 8
SLIDES
1963
Scope and Contents note
21 color slides depicting the dedication ceremony of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicolas in Washington, D.C.
box 4, folder 9
MEMORABILIA
undated
Scope and Contents note
Five military insignia patches.
PHOTOGRAPHS
1916-1963
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting the private life and military career of Boris Pash, arranged by subject.
box 4, folder 10
1 album of 105 prints depicting Boris Pash and family and Russian military personnel
1916-1933
box 5, folder 1
38 postcards depicting various scenes in Russia, including Chernigov and Nizhnii-Novgorod
1917-1919
box 5, folder 2
7 prints depicting the evacuation of Crimea
1919-1920
box 5, folder 3
38 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission
1944-1945
box 5, folder 4
48 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission
1944-1945
box 5, folder 5
73 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission
1944-1945
box 5, folder 6
63 prints depicting operations of the Alsos Mission
1944-1945
box 5, folder 7
48 prints depicting scenes in Japan during the Allied Occupation
1946-1948
Scope and Contents note
Includes prints of Soviet and U.S. military personnel.
box 5, folder 8
32 prints of Boris Pash and others in Panama
1950s
box 5, folder 9
32 prints depicting scenes in the Soviet Union
1917-1921
box 5, folder 10-11
64 prints depicting U.S. armed forces in Germany
1943-1947
box 5, folder 12
8 prints depicting U.S. armed forces in France after World War II
circa 1946-1948
box 5, folder 13
6 prints of Boris Pash and others after his retirement from the military
1960s-1970s
box 6, folder 1
35 prints depicting U.S. armed forces in France and Germany
1945
envelope A-B
211 prints from a photo album relating to the Alsos Mission
1944-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes photos of Paris at the time of its liberation and the surrender of Thanheim, Germany.
envelope C
13 prints of Russian Imperial Navy training ships in the Baltic and Black Seas, and scenes of a Russian refugee camp in Wunsdorf,
Germany
1905-1907, 1922
album fD
1 album of 132 prints depicting Boris Pash's military service under General N. Yudenich, White Russian Naval Forces
1920-1923
album fE, fF
2 albums of prints depicting the Russian refugee camp in Wunsdorf, Germany
1922
envelope G
32 negatives of photographs taken of each page of the album described in "D" above
envelope H
8 prints of a social event sponsored by the Foreign Liaison Section, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, for representatives
of the Four Power Occupational Forces
circa 1947
MOTION PICTURE FILM
1936-1945
Scope and Contents note
46 motion picture reels (includes duplicates) primarily depicting U.S. military operations in Europe.
film Shelf
Reel 1: Nr. 1 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 250 feet
1936
film Shelf
Reel 2: Nr. 2 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 250 feet
1937
film Shelf
Reel 3: World news, arms race, Spanish Civil War, annexation of Austria, Nr. 3 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 400 feet
1937-1938
film Shelf
Reel 4: Monatsschau, Nr. 4 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 400 feet
1938
film Shelf
Reel 5: Nr. 5 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 380 feet
1938-1939
film Shelf
Reel 6: Construction of Siegfried Line, Nr. 6 of numbered cans - 16mm film, 450 feet
1939
film Shelf
Reel 7: Bombing of England, submarine operations, Nazi heavy cruiser - 16mm film, 500 feet
1939
film Shelf
Reel 8: Battle for Flanders, Armistice signing - 16mm film, 375 feet
film Shelf
Reel 9: Nazi entry into Paris, Nazi conquest of France, Armistice signing at Compiegne, top-Nazi entry into Paris (second
copy) - two 16mm film reels, 150 feet
1940
film Shelf
Reel 10: Conquest of Belgium, war in Poland - 16mm film, 500 feet
1940
film Shelf
Reel 11: Five-day conquest of Holland - 16mm film, 100 feet
film Shelf
Reel 12: North Sea Battle, attack on Crete, advance into the Soviet Union, Minsk - 16mm film, 200 feet
1940
film Shelf
Reel 13: North Sea Battle, attack on Crete, advance into the Soviet Union, Minsk - 16mm film, 25 feet
film Shelf
No. 13: North Sea Battle, attack on Crete, advance into the Soviet Union, Minsk - 16mm film, 475 feet
film Shelf
Reel 14: "World War II Assault on the Maginot Line," produced by Degeto - 16mm film, 200 feet
film Shelf
Olympische Spiels - 1936, launching of the Scharnhorst etc. - 1936, Nr. 10 - 1936, Nr. 9 - 1937, Nr. 10 - 1937 / Schmalfilm-Monatsschau
- 1940: Nr. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 / "Deutschlands Heer" - 16mm film
1936-1937, 1940
film Shelf
Duplicate II/ 1-6, reel 1 - 16mm film, 300 feet
film Shelf
Duplicate II/ 1-6, reel 2 - 16mm film, 875 feet
film Shelf
Duplicate II/ 1-6, reel 3 - 16mm film, 1150 feet
film Shelf
Olympics, rolls 1-7 - 16mm film, 1015 feet,
1936
film Shelf
Deutsche Reichswehr Manoverbilder - 16mm film, 50 feet
film Shelf
Cross section of Olympics (note from 1996: Film of aerial shot of battleship) - 16mm film, 50 feet
1937
film Shelf
Pre WWII military planes firing practice (German) - 16mm film, 50 feet
film Shelf
From Steelblocks to Fine Tin - 16mm film, 50 feet
film Shelf
Schmalfilm-Monatsschau, Nr. 11 - 1935, Nr. 9 - 1936, Nr 11. - 1936 - three 16mm film reels
1935-1936
film Shelf
Nazi Campaign in Poland, helgoland, Finnlands Hauptstadt (fragment) - three 16mm film reels
film Shelf
Papal Rome, the bomb plot against Hitler, air force exercise, Hitler's birthday, Rome of the Oscars, paratroopers, birthday
of the King of England - three 16mm film reels
1936
online digital
Alsos Mission Films
1943-1945
Scope and Contents
Footage documenting the secret task force that investigated Nazi Germany's atomic bomb program and secured the surrender of
Thanheim during World War II. Contains reels 16-22, 16mm. This content has been digitized.
DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Includes some interfiled unclassified
government records. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover.
box 6, folder 2-3
2015 December release of records
1944-1946
Scope and Contents note
Diary, orders, correspondence, passes, and forms relating to J. M. Barnes, Royal Army Medical Corps (British Army), and his
participation in the Alsos Mission.
Also includes a map of Toulouse, France with negatives.
2017 release of records
1943-1945
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and memoranda related to Pash's military assignments and the Alsos Mission.
online digital
Memo from H. L. Allen, "Travel Orders,"
1943 December 14
online digital
Memo from W. C. McMillion, "Orders," regarding Pash assignment
1944 April 4
online digital
Memo from W. C. McMillion, "Orders," regarding Pash assignment
1944 April 25
online digital
Memo, "Movement Orders,"
1944 May 26
online digital
Memo from Russell S. Hahn, "Orders,"
1944 June 29
online digital
Memo from John S. Weckerling, "Commendation on ALSOS Mission Report of 4 March 1944,"
1944 July 25
online digital
Letter from J. C. Hunsaker to Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2
1945 June 29
online digital
Letter from Charles Hornbro
1945 July 26
online digital
Leslie R. Groves letter to Dr. Vannevar Bush
1945 August 14
online digital
Vannevar Bush letter to Dr. S. A. Goudsmit
1945 September 4
online digital
Vannevar Bush letter to Clayton Bissell
1945 September 12
online digital
Memo from Feodor O. Schmidt, "Award for Colonel Boris T. Pash,"
1945 December 5
online digital
Memo from Pash to Chief, Military Intelligence Service, "Final Report, ALSOS Mission,"
1945 December 10