Telegram from Ambassador Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes
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WND V JMSS NR 5
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FROM PAVE RUSS 082310Z
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PART ONE OF TWO PARTS ROWON TMGQM
state DECLASSIFIED by authority of
KARS Dept 8-10-72 its to
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to NLT 4-12-23
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BEAUCOUP MAXUMA NN PERSONAL AND TOPSECRET FOR THE
PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM HARRIMAN X I SAW STALIN
AND MOLOTOV THIS EVENING X STALIN SAID THAT HIS ADVANCE TROOPS
HAD ALREADY CROSSED THE FRONTIERS of MANCHURIA BOTH FROM THE
WEST AND THE EAST NOT RPT NOT MEETING HEAVY RESISTANCE ON ANY
FRONT AND HAD ADVANCED TEN OR TWELVE KILOMETERS IN SOME DIRECTIONEEEEEEE
SOME SECTIONS X THE MAIN FORCES WERE STARTING ACROSS THE FRONTIER
AS WE SPOKE X HE SAID THAT THERE WERE THREE MAIN ATTACKS FROM
THE WEST ONE SOUTH TOWARDS HAILAR X THE SECOND EAST FROM OUTER
MONGOLIA TOWARDS SOLUN X AND THE THIRE A CAVALRY COLUMN THROUGH
THE GOBI DESERT TOWARD SOUTH MANCHURIA X IN THE VLADIVOSTOK AREA
THERE WAS ONE DRIVE WEST FROM GRODEKOVO X HE EXPLAINED THAT HIS
OBJECTIVES FROM ALL DIEECTIONS WERE HARBIN AND CHANGCHUN X HE
SAID THAT HIS FORCES FROM THE NORTH IN THE KHABAROVSK AREA WERE
BEING HELD, TO ATTACK WHEN THE ENEMY HAD BEEN COMPELLED TO WEAKEN
THEIR FORCES DEFENDING THAT FRONT HH THE COPS SEE
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