Cable from General Field Marshall Albert Kesselring to General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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TEPEE--SET - 7---5/5/45---SIGNAL-0/1---POSSIBLE/CORRECT--CERNERO FREQ. 3375---TIME-ENDED 0920 CALLSIGNS A TO B. TO SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCES OF THE EUROPEAN THEATRE OF WAR, ARMY GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER. I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE WILLING AT ANY TIME TO RECEIVE MY PLENIPOTENTIARY. THIS INFORMATION SUPPOSED TO BE CORRECT. EARLIEST COMFIRMATION WOULD OBLIGE ME AND THEN I WOULD DELEGATE MY CHIEF OF STAFF GENERAL DER KAVALLERIE WES- PHAL TO SALZBURG. TO AVOID ANY WASTE OF TIME, WOULD YOU PLEASE GIVE HIM AND FIVE PERSONS ACCOMPANY ING HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO BY AIR FORM SALZBURG OR FROM MUENCHEN/RIEM TO YOUR HEADQUARTERS. PLEASE ANSWER BY RADIO ON 5250 AND 4660KCS. KESSELRING, GENERAL FELD MARSCHALL