Telegrams Between the American Embassy and the State Department Regarding Purges

The following documents show that the State Department was keeping remarkably close tabs on the academic purges brought on by Decree 447. Topics discussed in the telegrams include both leftist and conservative opposition to the purges, the possibility of a ‘brain drain,’ and the various motivations behind the purges (which were sometimes not political, but the result of corruption and personal vendettas).

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