Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC Vi0T Hote; . DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/10/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-10224-10245 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: 61-10448-2 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI TO: BERLE, ADOLF A. JR. TITLE: DATE: 09/22/1941 PAGES: 6 SUBJECTS : [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : Secret RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 07/30/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INC 2 MEMO v9.1 Docld: 32298965 Page 1
Released, under’ the John Pho cael Assas$ination Records Collection Act pho DATE: 11- 14- 7017. — ) o oN 27715. ; \_ PERIAL, cENSORSHIP. BE*\, 1 DA \ oe os | _-REGD Now PAU ble Ex CLEPPER | Mai) No. a GeO |. - SERIAL Noe A/46476/1. g hey wt idole . _ : SECRET . | FROM | To (\ DR. N. DOLGOPOLOFF, : COUNTESS ALEXANDRA L. TOLSTOY, | | 2 RUE DES ORPHELINES, TOLSTOY FOUNDATION, ' PAU, (BASSES-PYR.) FRANCE. . 289 Fourth Avenue, : | Date of letter | NRW YORK CITE, (or postmark 7/ath May 1941. | U.S.A. —_ if letter undated) | I a : For office use | 7 ° eee . ~ | PREVIOUS RECORDS IF RELEVANT by A.C.orD. A.C. | Allocation of submission slip in addition to: \ j in Bermuda | LONDON (2) . | Nos. - i TRINIDAD - , ; OTTAWA ; ~ MEW, (WASH) Whether to be photographed :— ; . DISPOSAL OF ORIGINAL LETTFR: Released, held, condemned If so, to whom photograph is to be sent: or sent with slip to:— a _ «COMMENT _ RUSSIAN . a . | §4yo9 FRENCH. : TOLSTOY FOUNDATION RELIEF WORK IN FRANCKs The envelope contains a number of enclosures in Russian, English & Frenche The Russiain letter with the headsing ‘of the ‘Russian Relief Committee, dated 7th. the report of the Chaixman of the above- organisation to Countess A.L. Tolstoy about -. of the Committee. It contains a statement of the amounts received from the Tolstoy | ie Poundation of New York between October 1940 and L2th April 1941, totalling Prsre,205:! receipts for which are enclosed. It further déntains a. Statement of all the food stuffs supplied to the organisat: fon | by the "Unitarians" and the. ®Quekers", partly direct from USA, but chiefly from Lisbon, ,. through Mr. Joye | the Quakers have been paid for the goods Prae36.000.- out of the local | funds. . There is no indication of the period during which the food stuffs in question a |.- have been delivered, a Taw pitt po Writer points out the tremendous increase in the scope of the organisation's relief irk, (hh and in the difficulties under which it Has to be done. He considers it necessary to inakel the "Comite des Zemstvos et Villes Russes" the sole organisation for the distribution!of . donations from America, whether in money or in kind. He writes (page 2, last paraarisy) | "I quite realise that this increase is the result of the assistance given by wh 1; Tolstoy Foundation and the Children’s Relief Pund, and that we are only your technical S apparatus here, But in order that this apparatus can work still more intensivelyy. weld ask you-to direst everything through us alone...In these hara times, when it isjiso:™ 3 difficult to rafae. the means to cover the direst and most urgent needs, the co-ordination On, of all efforts is the basio condition of the rational use of the money obtained." At ter sce coribing at length the various difficulties he has in obtaining permits from Military, ¢ authorities for the despatch of parcels over 5 kgs., both to the occupied zone and to i 4 at) {/ Room - TABLE EXMR. - a (or Department) , 7 Me pp D. A.C. DATE | Typists initials and U.LeDe 106. 4629. IJN 22nd May.19hl. °. a, B20 326 CLASS. & EXT ™BYQ4 HetheSe = —~/ ae . oes Wey REASON - FCT A M- “S 27theay oft] "SHG, ¢ . a _ wees ff. ot e H ae sae) BS o Ait a ~ ae . . jin an Docld:32298965 Page 2
a tome, ; ? z 2 = : oe 3 LU HOLE). I ss . 1 hes Bie 2175 © faa other provinces (Bepartjments), writer reverts once more to the question of sole “Yn the course of all this trouble it has become clear that some sort of sta . ment from you that, we are your sole representatives in Prance, the only ones entitled \_ +o distribute the.monay and food sent by you emong the Russian relief organisations - _and needy private persons, would be of the greatest assistance, We would ask you very kindly to send us such a declaration in the French language. I enclose a | specimén herewith." . 5 , . _. ‘Writer’ points out that he is unable to pay the amounts sent to private persons = i . at a fantastic “philanthropic rate" demanded by thée-donors. -He states "As regards —~ . the rumours wijich have reached you of.the high exohange value of the doller in Lisbon | and on the "Slack Bourse"; 4.e. of operations which constitute a oriminal offence =f _ i.’ and-are severely punished, such rumours can obviously be of no interest. either to/you or te us, as welfare organisations are naturally precluded from participation ‘dm such transactions," bys on Writer states that the draft for £30.- on Chase National Bank could not be casheds As he was not allowed to return it, he encloses a copy of the Bank*s advice end aske to take’ the necéssary steps for the collection and forwarding of the moneys Ds . ! he second Russian letter, dated Sth May, consists entirely of information about  ‘wartous Russians in France, colleoted and igparted at the request of their friends’ in U.S.A. Writer adds that he has been unable so far to establish any communication _. fhe envelope further contains: 1) Two, copies of letters dated 17th and 20th April from a Russien refugee lady in Marseilles, stating that they have been reduced to ~ such a state of exhaustion by lack of food and money, that her daughter has twice fainted, She is appealing for helpe ; 2) A letter in French addressed to Mr. BH. Kershner of the American Priends Service supply food stuffs for the amount of £1600.- paid im Philadelphia by the Tolstoy a  Specinen' of Declaration in Prench, to be made out in 2 copies (fer the Chairman | -and the Secretary incase of his absence), to be signed by Countess folatoy ant =. | "5) Copy. of Bank's Advice éf draft fir # 30.- 7 | ' ” Gonmittes" in Marseilles, confimaing the arrengement by thich the latter promised ‘to — 3} 7 official: reosipts. for amounts totalling Prse 205.507 40 de, ‘gertified bythe Prench Cofsulatés : j I.MeD.(ArC.) TL 4 2 35 Pil Doclda:32298965 Page 3