Missing Persons Report

Name: Vassily Djugashvili-Stalin. Address: Soviet Air Force, Moscow.

Age: 31 or 32. Sex: Male. Family Status: Married, two children.

Occupation: Airplane pilot, Guards Lieutenant General of Aviation.

Description: Small (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky (about 155 Ibs.); sandy hair, hazel eyes.

Characteristics: Vain, boisterous, a heavy and durable drinker.

Last Seen: Moscow, Red Square, 10:45 a.m., March 9, 1953, bearing the pall of his father, Joseph Stalin.

Facts of Case: Since Stalin's funeral, subject has been conspicuously absent from public places, from military and diplomatic functions, including last month's big Aviation Day show, in which he used to lead the big aerial review.

Clues: A Western diplomat returned from Moscow reported last week the following story: this summer, Vassily's younger sister Svetlana sent three inquiries to the Communist Party's Moscow District Committee concerning the whereabouts of her brother. The committee ignored two of the petitions, finally replied that Vassily had been posted to the Far Eastern command. But officers of the command told her they had not seen Vassily. Early in August, Svetlana was handed a copy of a Central Committee "decision" that Vassily had "violated discipline and the loyalty oath binding every Soviet officer" and had been sent to a correction camp in the Arctic Kolyma region. Svetlana's husband asked Molotov to intercede for Vassily. Molotov replied: "Such intervention would not help Vassily but might cause considerable harm to me." Vassily (according to the diplomat's report) got into trouble by criticizing Kremlin leaders for not letting him visit his father's deathbed, and for wondering out loud whether his father had really died from natural causes.

Conclusion: Irrespective of the above-mentioned data--not immediately verifiable--circumstances suggest that subject is victim of foul play.

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