The SVR declassified documents on the cooperation between the US and the Third Reich in 1943

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has declassified a report stating that in the spring of 1943, the United States, being in an alliance in the anti-Hitler coalition with the USSR, with the help of special services prepared the sale of strategically important materials to the Third Reich, which was planning an offensive at the Kursk Bulge. The relevant documents were published on the portal of the Presidential Library.

This message was sent to Moscow from Stockholm. It said that the US and Germany were making trade through various front men. The sender was the intelligence agent Boris Rybkin, alias Kim. The recipient was a Soviet foreign intelligence chief with the alias Victor Pavel Fitin.

"At the end of March, Prince Obolensky appeared to an employee of the German Chamber of Commerce, Svatkovsky, with a proposal to organize an exchange trade of some goods between America and Germany through front men," the declassified report said.

Prince Obolensky in the letter is former Russian officer Sergei Obolensky, who went to the United States at the end of the Civil War. He worked in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

It is specified that, according to Rybkin's information, Obolensky's proposal for US-German trade was passed to the German trade attaché Berents. After that, the idea reached the authorities in Berlin, who asked the Americans for lists of proposed goods.

"As a result of negotiations, the Americans made a concrete proposal that they could immediately provide the Germans with platinum for 25-30 million crowns, which are in Europe," Rybkin wrote in the report.

The German side, for its part, said it has long been looking for ways and means of trade with the United States because of previous successful experience.

Earlier, on December 6, the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation published archives revealing the role of the German regiment "Brandenburg-800" as punishers who brutally killed civilians.

Prior to that, on November 22, the Russian FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol declassified archival documents showing the investigation of crimes committed by Nazi occupiers, who were convicted in November 1947 during the Sevastopol trial.