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a Colonel Cleries Augustus Lindbergh Page 6 2. * aiien stated that he acsiated the American Air and Military Attaches prépsring reports on their finding concerning the air forces of the other natiows. These reports, Allen stated, were aubmitted through the regular channels to the Wer Department. Only on one occasion did Colonel Lindbergh prepare'e report of his own concerning the picture in Europe, and that was ~ -allegedly at the request of Ambassador Joseph FP, Kennedy who had asked for.= - “,a written report which he cabled in code to the State Department. This- : was seid to have heen Lindbergh's only formsl report on the Buropean aili + tary and cviation situation. Allen said further that Lindbergh wrote one ~ or more letters to Lieutenant Colonel Raymond E, Lee, the Military Attache --% gt the London Erbassy. With reference to the Kennedy report, the Life ~-. Magazine of April 3, 1939, carried an article ox Lindbergt which rentioned — that they believed 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 hac beer previcualy subsitted by . _ Colonel Seith who had alreaty gathered the material. Tie Life article «went on to state: © : a ar tt eee a ee vin ny bie % nm -*Diplomatic circles have at ‘that the Lindbergh “peport was cal culated and’ prompted by ambassador Kennedy and then used by the Ad- - ministration to imprese the Senate and House Comzittees with the need of rearnezent. Lindbergh's coulc accomplish whet no end of official reports from the War Department could.® ‘ With reference to Eussia, the Life article stated thet Tincbereh “visited that country in 1938, at which tine he watched sham battles and. + Wisited plants outside of Moscowand inspected the Central Institute for - : Aviation motors ané Soviet Air Academy. according to Life, the Russians. -only allowed him short glimpses of their true air pover, and when be re- : , turned to London some weeks later, he was said to have told Lloyd Georges - - + as well as several of the members of the Amrican Imbessy Steff that he was unable to make even a moderately accurate estimate of the Russian air . ‘Force, and frankly didn't know how good the Russians were. -- 9M sot With reference to Lindbergh's relations with Nazi offictale, the aforenentioned Lire 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 tremencous Germen rir power through Lindbergh. Be showed Lindbergh through \ the Beinkel, Junkers, Focke-Wulf and other air plents. Life stated that Goering also presented Lindbergh with the second highest decoration which... . Hitlefakas to bestow. This decoration was made at a stag dinner given by -Anbassggor Eugh Wileon at his homes. ‘Life"atated that the decoration was hong “hurry and that it surprised Lindberg:,. end that those present eaid dergh wee in a position\Where he could have done nothing adout it. 7 It waé gaid that to have refused it would have been inhoepiteble and an in- > sult to Hitler, especially after his accepting so moch hospitality from the | - Germane. In the Saturday Evening Post article by C, B. Allen, it was ssid Se ey