Eugenia Maresch - Katyn 1940

TNA FCO 28/ 1945 ENP 10/1 Part A, brief by Julian L. Bullard head of the EE&SD, 11 July 1972.

TNA FCO 28/ 1947 ENP 10/1, minutes of the meeting held by A. Royle, PUS and A. Neave MP on 17 October 1972.

TNA FCO 28/1947 report by Derek Tonkin, EE&SD, 28 November 1972.

TNA FCO 28/1946 ENP 10/1, first draft of a memorandum ‘Reactions in the Foreign Office to the Katyn Massacre’, compiled by Dr Rohan D’Olier Butler, assisted by Miss J. Roskill and Miss C. Gray, for the attention of Julian L. Bullard and Sir Thomas Brimelow, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, 4 September 1972.

TNA FCO 28/1946 ENP 10/1, appraisals of Butler’s memorandum dated between 15 September and 13 November 1972 by: D. Mervyn Jones (IRD), K.H. Duke (East European Section Research Department), Julian L. Bullard (EE & Soviet Department), Anthony Royale (PUS) and Derek Tonkin (East European & Soviet Departmento.

TNA FO 371/71707B N4297, British Embassy in Ankara, 3 April 1948, an account of Katyn massacre, probably based on Supplementary Report written in 1946 by the Poles. Handwritten memo instructs no stand to be taken in support of General Anders or any use of it for propaganda purposes.

Katyn Dokumenty Zbrodni, losy ocalałych (Katyn Documents of Crime, the fate of survivors), NKVD documents edited by Wojciech Materski, Natalia Lebedeva and others. Warsaw 2001, Vol III, p.186, document No. 68.

TNA FCO 28/ 1946 ENP 10/1, Anthony Royle PUS on Butler’s memorandum, 20 October 1972.

Derek Tonkin (b. 1929) studied modern languages including Polish, joined the FO in 1952, served mostly in the Far East and posted to Poland in 1955 and 1966. At the FCO in 1972 as Counsellor at PUS Department, representing it at the JIS, experienced in assessments, involved with Butler’s memoranda on Katyn and the memorial issue.

TNA FCO 28/1947 ENP 10/1, comments on Butler’s report by D. Tonkin (EE&SD), sent to Julian Bullard 1 November 1972. Copies were sent to: Sir Thomas Brimelow and Bernard Cheesman, Thomas Barker, head of the Information and Research Department, George Walden, Clive Rose and Rohan Butler.

Zdzisław Jagodziński, A groby katyńskie wciąż jeszcze wołają (The Katyn graves are still calling), Tydzień Polski London 19 April 1980.

Katyn. Dokumenty Zbrodni, Echa Katynia, Vol. IV, Warsaw 2006, Introduction pp. 28–36.

Natalia Lebedeva Katyn: preiestuplenije protiv chlovechenstva , (Katyn: a massacre against mankind), Katyn zbrodnia przeciwko ludzkości , translated by K. Bidakowski, published by The Council for Defence of Memory, Strife and Martyrdom, Warsaw 1997.

Katyń. Dokumenty zbrodni Echa Katynia (Katyn. Documents of the crime) Vol. IV, Warsaw 2006, chapter 102, p. 459, a report of the Polish side of the Polish-Soviet Historical Committee of April 1988: Professors: J. Maciszewski, C. Madajczyk, R. Nazarewicz, M. Wojciechowski analysing the Soviet Report of 1944 (the Burdenko report).

Katyń. Dokumenty Zbrodni Echa Katynia (Katyn, Documents of the crime), executive editorship: Wojciech Materski, Bolesław Woszczyński, Ewa Rosowska, Natalia S. Lebediewa, Nelli A. Petrosova. Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych w Warszawie (Polish National Archives in Warsaw) and Państwowa Służba Archiwalna Rosji w Moskwie (National Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow GARF ), Warsaw 2006, Vol. IV, document 135, 2 August 1993, p. 525–563; Katyn Crime Without Punishment , edited by Anna Cienciala, Natalia Lebedeva and Wojciech Materski, Obstacles to Reconciliation pp. 259–264, Yale University Press 2007.

Katyn Dokumenty Zbrodni, Jency nie wypowiedzianej wojny (Katyn. Documents of the crime), Vol. I, documents 216 and 217, 5 March 1940.

Echa Katynia Vol. IV, document 93, 9 March 1959.

Katyn: British reaction to the Katyn Massacre 1943–2003, published FCO 2003, footnote 107, FCO ENP/331/1.

Katyn: British reaction to the Katyn Massacre 1943–2003, includes a Memorandum by Rohan Butler of 10 April 1973, annexes and selected documents, published in 2003 by FCO Historians to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the discovery of the Katyn Massacre; www.fco.gov.uk

10 Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej IPN No. 5–6, May-June 2005, (Bulletin, Institute of National Remembrance), Rozmowy Biuletynu Komentarze Historyczne , (Discussions and Historical Comments).