Eugenia Maresch - Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the Wests Betrayal

Lieutenant General Mason MacFarlanes Report Lieutenant Bronisaw Mynarskis Report Captain Jzef Czapskis Report The Foreign Office Comments Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Hulls Report Professor Stanisaw Swianiewicz Declaration

General Anders Speech Ambassador OMalleys Involvement with Katyn Second Secretary Denis Allens Opinion Sir Alexander Cadogans Remarks Diplomatic Dilemmas and Attitudes German Secure Signals Auswartiges Amt SOE Interests in Katyn

Stanisaw Wjciks MI 19 Interrogation Ferdynand Goetels Recollections Ivan Krivozertsevs Deposition Polish Red Cross PCK Involvement Kazimierz Skaryskis Report Dr Marian Wodziskis Report Captain Stanley Gilders Report Wodziskis Report Part Two Skaryskis Report Part Two

German Reaction to the Soviet Report Foreign Correspondents and J. Balfours Report Interrogation of Columbine The Soviet Commission of Experts Ambassador OMalley on the Soviet Report The Foreign Office Response Sir Bernard Spilsburys Forensic Observations Professor Orss Confirmation of his Initial Report

Professor Sumners Analysis Sir William Malkins Judgement Skaryskis Conclusions

Akcja Kostar MP Guy Lloyds Involvement Denis Allens Brief Professor Savorys Engagement The Foreign Office Comments Lord Shawcross Statement Ambassador Bullard Remembers Frank Roberts Comments from Moscow Possible Charges against the AK

The Germandt Affair The Timing of Akcja Kostar The Second Phase of AkcjaKostar Polish Appeal for an International Tribunal General Anders Plea The Foreign Office Reply

USA House of Representatives Select Committee Convolutions of the Foreign Office FORDs Reaction to the Madden Report Geoffrey Shaws Opinion Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks Words of Wisdom The British Governments Last Stand

Professor Hudsons A Polish Challenge Janusz Zawodny and Louis FitzGibbon Miesicznik LiterackiBritish Foreign Policy in the Second World War The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times The BBC Documentary

MP Airey Neaves Involvement Lord Barnbys Brave Effort Lord Hankeys Brief Parliamentary Debate on Katyn Sir Alec Douglas Home and EE&SDs Brief The Katyn Memorial Fund

Rohan Burlers Memorandum Critical Appraisal of Butlers Report

Russias Response; The PolishRussian Historical Committee The 1940 Soviet Politburo Document British Policy on Katyn in the 1990s The Unquiet Dead of Katyn Still Walk the Earth

Grateful acknowledgements are made to various archives for permission to reprint previously published material as well as those documents recently declassified, upon which the bulk of this book is based. In particular the National Archives at Kew, the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, custodian of surviving records of the Polish government-in-exile based in London. Besides referring to the relevant official histories I have also drawn freely on recent publications by authors from Poland and these are acknowledged in the endnotes.

Debts of gratitude are owed to the personnel of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, and the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust, the National Archives in Poland, the Central Military Archives and the Council for Defence of Memory, Strife and Martyrdom in Warsaw, for their support and encouragement.

Thanks are due to my family, friends and colleagues, amongst them Andrzej Suchcitz, whose counsel I have sought on many occasions, and to David List, especially for his meticulous eye for detail, whose critical reading of the typescript resulted in rational re-examination.

Appreciation is expressed to those who allowed me to use photographs from their family albums. All credits are noted in the captions to those libraries and institutions that provided images.