DLA
This telegram must be closely pararphrased before being communicated to anyone. (SC)
 
 
MOSCOW
Dated December 8, 1942
Rec'd 10:55 a.m.
 
Secretary of State, Washington.
 
TRIPLE PRIORITY
 
     523, December 8, 8 p.m. (SECTION ONE)
 
     SECRET FROM GENERAL HURLEY FOR THE PRESIDENT
 
           I returned to Moscow last night after ten days at the front in the Stalingrad area. On my
tour of this front I was accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Park, Jr., United States Army
acting Military Attache at Moscow and Major John C. Henry of the air corps United States Army,
as aides.
 
All of the officials both political and military of the Red Army with whom we came in contact
were uniformly courteous and cooperative. They seemed eager to give us the information we
desired pertaining to their operations, their supply logistics and their strategy.
 
We  have been told that we were the first officers of any foreign army to see actual combat
operations on the Russian front from the Russian side.