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    "ocrText": "Division of the State Department. While no exact records of distribution\ncould be compiled, it appears that four copies of each message so received\nwere prepared in the office of Mr. Matthews by his secretary and that the\noriginal copy thereof was sent to the office of Mr. Charles H. Bohlen,\nLiaison Officer of the State Department with the White House (Bohlen was\nin Moscow with Mr. Hopkins). Two copies of each message were retained in\nthe office of Mr. Matthews. A third copy was delivered to the office of\nAssistant Secretary of State Julius C. Holmes, who personally delivered\neach message to Dr. Raymond H. Geist, Director of the Division of Central\nServices. The fourth copy of each telegram was delivered to Elbridge\nDurbrow, Chief of the Eastern European Division of the State Department,\nfor his information and his use in preparing telegrams sent to Ambassador\nWinant in London for the attention of Mr. Rudolph E. Schoenfeld, Counselor\nof the Polish Embassy in London. Durbrow is also charged with the prepara-\ntion of paraphrases of the messages which were sent over the signature\nof the President for the information of Prime Minister Churchill in London.\nDr. Geist, in connection with his copy of the messages, sent the messages\nthrough the State Department code room to Secretary of State Stettinius in\nSan Francisco. At San Francisco the messages were received by a Captain\nin the U. S. Army Signal Corps in a Signal Corps installation at the\nFairmont Hotel, where an original and two copies of the messages came off\nthe \"scrambler\". The Captain delivered the original and two copies of the\nmessage to Mr. Charles W. Yost of the General Secretariat at San Francisco.\nAbsence of Mr. Yost from the United States prevented detailed investigation\nof his handling of the messages but the State Department officials advise\nthat Mr. Yost briefed the messages prior to taking them to the Secretary of\nState. State Department sources advise that the handling of documents and\nmessages in San Francisco was rather loose due to the temporary nature of\nthe set-up there.\nThe Hopkins' telegrams received prior to June 1, 1945, were consoli-\ndated and paraphrased in a State Department telegram sent by the State\nDepartment Telegraph Section to the American Embassy in London for the\nattention of Mr. Rudolph E. Schoenfeld, Counselor of the Polish Embassy\nin London under date of June 1, 1945.This telegram contained sufficient\ninformation to serve as the basis for the Pearson article. It was pre-\npared by Elbridge Durbrow, Chief of the Eastern European Division of the\nState Department, who prepared an original and six copies of the outgoing\nmessage. They were sent to the Telegraph Section, which in turn sent the\nmessage to the American Embassy in London, and one copy of the message was\nthen filed in the Confidential Files of the State Department. One copy\nwas filed in the Telegraph Section's permanent file (where any one of 150\nemployees could have observed it), a third copy was maintained for thirty\ndays in the Encoding Section of the Telegraph Unit, a fourth copy was\nsent to the Secretary of State's office where it apparently was maintained\nfor two weeks, a fifth copy was sent to the Undersecretary of State's\noffice for maintenance for three weeks, a sixth copy was returned to Mr.\nDurbrow and placed in his personal file, and the last copy was maintained\nin Mr. Durbrow's stenographer's file. In addition, the stenographer\n-3-"
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