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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nSECRET\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\nBYNLJ-AL NARS Date 6.26.75\n-2-\nthe probable development of quadripartite control of\nGermany. The Russians presented a prepared \"agreement\"\ndrawn up in treaty form which they made clear they ex-\npected SHAEF to approve despite the fact that it contained\ninacceptable commitments and undertakings. Their manner\nbordered on arrogance except for the occasions when the\npresence of suitable beverage brought forth warm profes-\nsions of eternal Soviet-Anericen friendship. On these\noccasions much greater friendahip was expressed for the\nAmericans than for the British. The Russians refused\npermission for Allied sircraft to enter Soviet-occupied\nterritory to pick up Allied personnel even though such\naircraft would deliver Soviet citizens, The clear impli-\ncation was given that the Russians considered Soviet-\noccupied Germeny to be Soviet territory, at lenst as fer\nas third parties are concerned. At no time during the\nconversations did any of the Soviet proposals appear to\ntake into account the fact that the occupation line now\nestablished will be moved westward.\nBulgarian Lender Still in Danger. G. M. Dimitrov is\nstill in asylum in Bernes' house at Sofie, which is sur-\nrounded with *several hundred Bulgarian Communist militia-\nmen all bearing tommyguna\". As Barnes observes, this\nshows the extent to which Bulgaria has become a. police state\ndominated by its Communist Party and that party's arned\ngragaters. The Commist Minister of the Interior obviously\nhas his Cabinet collengues terrified. The Foreiga Minister\nwants a solution \"without the exchange of any written com-\nmunication\" which might later incriminate him with the Com-\nmunists. The Prime Minister has berged Barnes to consider\ntheir conversations a.8 \"ones of information* and not \"in\nany way official or binding\". The Foreign Minister wants\nDimitrov removed to the US end put under observation there.\nThe Depertment has entirely approved Barnes' action,\nespecially his getting a Bulgarian \"declaration of intention\nto work out a solution for Dimitrov's safety\" and also plac-\ning the responsibility for protecting Bulgarian leaders\nwhere it belongs, nemely on the Bulgarian Government. While\nwe would"
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