RE-ISSUE - "MAY" ORDERED BY "VIKTOR" TO ASCERTAIN ATTITUDE OF METROPOLITAN THEOPHILUS TO DECISION OF A SYNOD OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (1945)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP00M01914R001000060038-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 23, 1945
• Content Type: CABLE

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Ref. No: 3/NBP/T661 ( of 1 5/1 0/i 956)
Issued: 1 4/9/1 960
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RE-ISSUE
"MI:17" ORD 4g4, BY "VIKTOR". TO ASCERTAIN ATTEDia] OF LIETROPOLITAN
THEOPHILUS TO =IKON OF A SYNOD OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODW: CHU2CH (1945)
From: NOSCO7
To: NE7 7ORK
No: 267
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To MAY[IIJAY].
Since his return to the United States, Metropolitan BENJAMIN[VENIAMIN] has
been sending to Patriarch ALEXIS[ALEKSIJ] anxious and obscure telegrams about the
attitude of Metropolitan THEOPHILUS PAShKOVSKY[FM0FIL PASMOVSKIJ] towards the
decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the conditions for
uniting THEOPHILUSI Churches with the MOSCOW Patriarchy. Metropolitan BENJAMIN
[8 groups unrecovered] sent [T; by post],
[38 groups unrecoverable]
Metropolitan THEOPHILUS, it is neoessary to ascertain urgently through the agent
network EA GENTURA ] :
1. ' The attitude of Metropolitan T. [F.] and his closest supporters to the
decision of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the conditions
for uniting THEOPHILUS' Churches with the MOSCOW Patriarchy.
2. [11 groups unrecovered] supporters of THEOPHILU3 [10 groups unrecovered] been
put forward by the Synod of the Russian Church.
3. The oontents of the report by THEOPHILUS, which he sent recently to Patriarch
ALEXIS.
Distribution
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Between That dates do the supporters of THEOPHILUS intend to hold their
council to discuss the MOSCOW conditions?
5. The behaviouX of Metropolitan BENJAMIN and Bishop AI= PANTELEEV and the
results of the negotiations which have been going on [2 groups unxeoevered]
about this questicin.
6. [22 groups unrecovered] [31 groups unxecovelmble]
stopped.
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VIKTOR[ii]
Comments: [i] MAY : Stepan Zakharovioh Aex,SYaN, Soviet Vice-Comul in
. NEW YORK.
ii] VIEUOR : Lt. Gen. P. M. FITIN.
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