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UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
Japan; to conduct, in conjunction with U. S. strategic air forces
based in Siberia, intensive air operations against Japan proper;
and to interdict lines of communication between Japan and the
mainland of Asia.
(b) In furtherance of these principles, we should deliver the maxi-
mum possible supplies without detriment to our own war effort.
(c) We should enter into immediate negotiations with Russia to
determine the feasibility, practicability, desirability and necessity for
undertaking any or all of the following courses of action:
(i) To establish air and naval forces in Kamchatka, including
the naval base at Petropavlovsk.
(ii) To base U. S. strategic air forces in Eastern Siberia.
(iii) To develop an air transport route from Kamchatka to
Eastern Siberia.
(iv) To open a North Pacific line of communication to Siberia.
(v) To permit Russian submarines and light naval craft to
operate from our bases in the Aleutians.
(2) Indicate to the Russians that any operations by us to open sea
routes to Sea of Okhotsk-Amur River ports will be extremely costly
and at the expense of our own efforts toward Japan from the south;
that because of limitation of means, the probability of amphibious
operations in the North Pacific in 1945 is remote.
(3) Emphasize that if we are to conduct a difficult campaign to
open a sea route of only limited capacity the U. S. and U. S. S. R.
should insure that the use made of the route will be that which will
bring about earliest defeat of Japan.
(4) Indicate clearly that if a supply route is opened and maintained
by the diversion of U. S. forces and resources, in order to gain full
advantage of this effort, we expect Russian agreement to the basing
of U. S. strategic air forces in eastern Siberia.
c. The points discussed above have to do with U. S.-U. S. S. R.
matters essentially, and should be taken up if possible in U. S.-
U. S. S. R. meetings; details should be worked out between U. S.
and U. S. S. R. staff representatives. If taken up at the tripartite
meetings they should be covered only in the broadest terms. (A
proposed message to General Deane is attached as Appendix "B"; its
purpose is to set before the Russians the points we propose to discuss
bilaterally and to give them opportunity to make additions or amend-
ments to these subjects.)'
RECOMMENDATIONS
7. It is recommended that the Joint Chiefs of Staff
a. Present to the President the memorandum in Appendix "A."
b. Dispatch to General Deane the message in Appendix "B."
c. Approve the conclusions in paragraph 6 above and note the
summary of important statements in Appendix "C."
For the text of appendix A, see the memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of
Staff to the President, January 23, 1945, post, p. -
Appendix "B"
DRAFT
MESSAGE FROM THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF TO COMMANDING GENERAL
U. S. MILITARY MISSION TO U. S. S. R.
In WAR
U.S. proposals for the agenda for the U. S.-British-
U.S.S. R. tripartite military conference were furnished to you. The
United States Chiefs of Staff propose the following subjects for dis-
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