Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

Colonel McCormack’s analysts attach their first account of Vlassov’s activities to this report. They cite Vlassov’s background in China as a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek in 1938, and that, in 1942, he was named deputy commander of the Leningrad Front. Transferred later to the Volkhov Front, Vlassov was captured by the Germans in July. Nothing was heard of Vlassov until March 25, 1943, when he spoke over radio Vistula, a German propaganda station beaming programs to Russia. Vlassov renounced the Russian regime during the broadcast and said he was organizing a Russian Army of Liberation. Said McCormack’s analysts: “Axis-controlled broadcasts in satellite countries have recently been playing up Vlassov’s movement.” Judging from the detailed amount of Magic/Ultra intercepts about Vlassov, this writer finds it difficult to believe claims by British and American officers of high rank that they were unaware of Vlassov’s anti-Communist activities during the war.