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Title: Boris T. Pash papers,
Date (inclusive): 1892-1989
Collection number: 72033
Creator:
Pash, Boris T., 1900-1995
Collection Size:
5 manuscript boxes, 5 envelopes, 3 albums, 22 motion picture film reels (10.7 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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 B. T. Pash with Central Intelligence Agency assassination plots.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Boris T. Pash papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
| 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 |
The Hoover Institution Archives acquired the papers of Boris Pash in 1972 and received several increments in subsequent years.
These papers reflect the military career of Boris Pash as a colonel in the U.S. Army, as well as a volunteer in the Russian
Imperial Army and Navy from 1918 through his retirement from 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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolayevich, 1862-1933.
United States. Army--Officers.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Atomic bomb.
Refugees.
Nuclear energy.
Russians--Germany.
Secret service--United States.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Mexico.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service.
Germany.
Mexico.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Naval operations.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Refugees.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
Moving-pictures.