Telegram from Herschel V. Johnson II to Secrertary of State Edward Stettinius

DEF ARTMENT INCOMING DIVISION OF OF CENTRAL SERVICES STATE TELEGRAM TELEGRAPH SECTION LEBLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 NLT-HL NARS Date 2-1575 Return to no forcign RS-1381 Stockholm This telegram must be closely paraphrased be- Dated May 2, 1945 fore boing communicated to anyone (OECKET) Roc'd 1;20 p.m. Secrotary of Stato Washington US URGENT 1628, May 2, 1 p.m. TOP SECRET According to what are described as being complotoly roliablo sourcos a high ranking roprosentativo of the Gorman Commander in Chiof in Norway Gonoral Boohmo has succoodod in smuggling himsolf from Norway into Swodon without a Swodish visa and to havo arrived in Stockholm this morning whoro ho immodiatoly procoeded to the Gorman Logation. In this connoction soe my 1553, April 26, 3 p.m. Today all leaves of absonce of Norwogian polico troops woro cancollod and the mombors of thoso forces wore in- structed to roport to thoir camp immodiatcly. The rumors reportod in the antoponultimate para- graph of my 1626 May 2, 2 a.m. woro clarified by tolo- gram roccivod by the Swodish Foroign Offico this morn- ing Instead of ovacuating the island of Zealand the Germans have ARCHIVES ONATIONAL AND RECORDS