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28 Wiley to Bullitt, December 27, 1934, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/174; Wiley to Bullitt, January 2, 1935, Bullitt Papers, 21:5; Bullitt to Wiley, January 7, 1934, ibid., T14:2; Bullitt to GFK, January 7, 1934, ibid., 21:1; GFK to JKH, December 31, 1934, GFK Papers, 23:10.

29 GFK to JKH, December 31, 1934, January 20, 1935, and January 6, 1937 [misdated 1936], ibid.; GFK to Bullitt, February 12, 1935, Bullitt Papers, 21:1; GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 25–27, GFK Papers, 240:2.

30 GFK to JKH, December 31, 1934, and February 10, 1935, ibid., 23:10.

31 GFK interviews, August 25, 1982, p. 1, and December 13, 1987, pp. 12–13; GFK Diary, February 12 and April 11, 1935; GFK to Bullitt, February 12, 1935, Bullitt Papers, 21:1; Henderson interview, September 25, 1982, p. 4. I have slightly edited the diary passage.

32 GFK Diary, February 4, 6, 14, 15, 1935; GFK to JKH, February 10, 1935, ibid., 23:10. The letter to Follmer is quoted in the diary entry for February 6.

33 GFK to JKH, March 6 and April 29, 1935, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK Diary, April 8, 1935; GFK to ASK, April 20, 1935, JEK Papers.

34 GFK Diary, February 15, 1935; GFK to Bullitt, February 12, 1935, Bullitt Papers, 21:1.

35 Bullitt to R. Walton Moore, May 11, 1935, ibid., T12:13; GFK to Bullitt, April 15, 1935, ibid., 21:1; Bullitt to Thomas D. White, June 6, 1935, ibid., 21:5; ASK to JKH, May 31, 1935, JEK Papers.

36 GFK Diary, April 20, 1935; GFK to JKH, June 28, July 30, September 11 and 30, 1935, ibid., 23:10; GFK to Bullitt, November 4, 1935, Bullitt Papers, 21:1.

37 GFK, Memoirs, I, 64; GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 14–15, GFK Papers, 240:2.

38 GFK to JKH, November 17, 1935, ibid., 23:10. For a recent but still inconclusive account of the Kirov murder, see Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: At the Court of the Red Tsar (New York: Knopf, 2004), pp. 143–52.

39 GFK to JKH, December 25, 1935, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK to Charles James, December 16, 1935, ibid., 24:4; GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 36–38, ibid., 240:2.

40 Ibid., pp. 41–44; Bullitt fitness report on GFK, August 1, 1936, Bullitt Papers, T12:21. See also, for a detailed account of this trip, GFK, Sketches from a Life, pp. 27– 33.

41 Bullitt to State Department, April 20, 1936, in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933– 1939, p. 292. See also Bullitt, For the President, pp. 134–35, and Henderson, Question of Trust, pp. 319–85, 407–8.

42 GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 13–14, 23–24, 38–40, GFK Papers, 240:2; GFK, Memoirs, I, 68–70. The Neill Brown observations were included in Bullitt to State Department, March 4, 1936, in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 289–91. GFK described their discovery in a lecture to the Canadian National Defence College on May 31, 1948, GFK Papers, 299:9.

43 Bullitt to State Department, April 20, 1936, in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, p. 296.

44 See “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs 25 (July 1947), especially pp. 580–82.

45 Bullitt fitness report on GFK, August 1, 1936, Bullitt Papers, T12:21.

46 GFK to Bullitt, June 9, 1936, ibid., and September 4, 1936, ibid., 20:17.

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1 GFK to State Department, January 9, 1936, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/213.

2 ASK to JKH, November 2, 1935, JEK Papers; GFK 1938 memoir “Fair Day Adieu,” p. 41, GFK Papers, 240:2; GFK to JKH, December 25, 1935, ibid., 23:10.

3 GFK to Bullitt, June 9, 1936, Bullitt Papers, T12:21.

4 GFK to JKH, May 13, 1935, GFK Papers, 23:10.

5 GFK, Memoirs, I, 77.

6 Ibid.; GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 47–50, GFK Papers, 240:2; also GFK to JKH, September 8, 1936, ibid., 23:10.

7 Ibid.; J. Klahr Huddle to State Department, April 17, 1937, Department of State, Inspection Reports on Foreign Service Posts, 1906–39, Box 102.

8 GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” p. 66, GFK Papers, 240:2; R. Walton Moore to Bullitt, March 19, 1936, Bullitt Papers, T12:15. The information on embassy productivity is in the Huddle inspection report, April 17, 1937.

9 GFK to JKH, December 6, 1936, GFK Papers, 23:10; ASK to JKH, January 2, 1937, JEK Papers; Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, pp. 132, 135.

10 ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 6; GFK to JKH, September 8, 1936, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK Diary, May 30, 1937.

11 GFK to JKH, December 6, 1936, GFK Papers, 23:10; also ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 19.

12 Henderson, Question of Trust, p. 414; Davies, Mission to Moscow, p. xviii; GFK, Memoirs, I, 82. See also, on Davies’s background, MacLean, Joseph E. Davies, pp. 7–22.