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“ane oe ee ™~ —* nL - pets ) j - With “reference to Colsnel Lindbergh's t tour througt Zurope, c. .. Alien stafed that he acaiated the American Alr an? Military Attaches in ~ ..- préparing reports on their finding concerning the air forces of the other _ natiows. These reports, Allen stated, were avubnitted through the regular | channels to the Wer Department. Only on one occesion did Colonel Lindbergh” ~ . prepare a report’ of his own concerning the picture in Europe, and thet was -- ‘ ac > rellegediy | at the request of Ambassador Joseph PF, Kennedy who had asked for. ~ tt yo. @ written report which be cabled in code to the State Department. This a + tary and cviation situation. Allen said further that Lindbergh wrote one - ‘I. or more letters to Lieutenant Colonel Raymond E. Lee, the Military Attache * ©: ~ _ Colonel Srith who had alreaty gathered the material. This Life article _F an ae was seid to have heen Lindbergh's only forms] report on the Buropean nili- ose i ‘at the London Eroaesy. With reference to the Eennedy report, the Life ~-.. Magazine of April 3, 1939, esrried an article or Linibergt which rentioned that they believec the Lindbergh reports to the War Department concerning - the Buropeen condition had been greatly exaggerated ani that most of the .; material received by the War Department had been previously subritted by | _ went (on to state! Sa nt ons ~ . * _ . a ~ . ~ - - . . im “ : et -*Diplomatic ‘circles have at that” the Lindbergh “report was cal-. o Sf ‘ * .eglated and: prompted by Ambassador Kennedy ant then used by the Ad- > ~ > ministration to imprese the Senete and House Comzittees with the need of rearneazent. Lindbergh's coule accorplish whet no end of official reports from the War Department could. * With reference to Hussia, the Life article atated thet Lindbergh - “visited that country in 1938, at which tine he watched sham battles and. - « eht te « _. -Ambassggor Eugh Wileon at his homes "Life"atated that the decoration was , +, ‘+ Wisited plants outside of Moacowand inepected the Central Institute for" tee, ‘Aviation motors and Soviet Air Academy. According to Life, the Russians, Fle dere ee "enly allowed him short glimpses of their true air power, and when be re- ~~ : , turned to London some weeke later, he was said to have told Lier George™'* - - - as well as several of the members of the Amrican Embassy Steff that he was unable to make even a moderately accurate estimate of the Zossian air : Force, end frankly didn't kmow how good the Fuseiens were, pot. ROT “With reference to Lindbergh's relations with Sart “officials, the aforenentioned Live article stated that in October of 193B, he went to Ber- lin for a meeting of the Lilienthal Society of Aeronautics end that on this occasion Goering sav an opportunity for spreading informetion concerning the | trenmencous Germen rir power through Lindbergh. He showed Lindbergh through \ _ the Beinkel, Junkers, Focke-Wulf snd other air plents. Life stated that \ Goering also presented Lindbergh with the second highest decoration which «._ Hitlemebas to bestow. This decoration was made at a stag Cinner given by hong “hursy and that it scrprised Lindberg:,. and that those present - said bvergn wee ina position\Bere he could have done nothing abdout ite ; It wae said that to have refused - it would have been inhoepitsble and an in- © 3 > mult to Hitler, especially after hie accepting so much hospitality from the . >: 7, Germans. In the Saturday Evening Post article by C, B. Allen, it was said el =