Telegram from Ambassador Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes

NLT-102 SECRET DISPATCH copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE URGENT FROM ALUSNA MOSCOW 1 g. PRIORITY AND 3 RELEASED BY ROUTINE us nos 4 5 JULY 1945 CNO DEFERRED 5 DATE BASEGRAM 6 1225/05 7 TOR CODEROOM DECLASSIFIED by authority of 8 COOK F.R. 1945 PRIORITY 9 DECODED BY 10 CHECKED ROUTINE PARAPH RASED COOK Vol.VI P.115 11 BY BY COOK DEFERRED 12 DITTOED ROUTED BY COOK COOK Initials/Vs. Datef:6:73 BASEGRAM 13 BY 14 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFERRED PRECED'ENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE IF OPERATION/ 15 PAGE 1 OF 2 051139 NCR 3084 CHECK BELOW 16 17 18 Originator till in DATE AND TIME GROUP (Use G. C. T.) 19 5 ON OUTGOINO DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNING TEXT 20 21 22 (PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY 23 OF STATE FROM HARRIMAN) 24 25 I CALLED ON DR SOONG THIS MORNING AND CARRIED OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS 6 CONTAINED IN WHITE HOUSE MESSAGE NUMBER 308 NAVY NUMBER 27 28 041326 REGARDING OUTER MONGOLIA, HE REPEATED WHAT HE SAID IN 29 30 OUR FIRST TALK THAT HE WAS ASKING FOR THE INFORMATION FOR HIS 31 32 OWN/QUIDANCE AND THAT HE HAD NO INTENTION OF BRINGING THE 33 UNITED STATES'S UNDERSTANDING OR INTERPRETATION OF THE VARIOUS 34 35 PROVISIONS OF THE YALTA AGREEMENT INTO HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH 36 STALIN. HE RECOGNIZES THAT THIS WOULD BE UNWISE FROM HIS OWN 37 38 39 STANDPOINT AS WELL AS FROM THAT OF THE UNITED STATES. HE EXPECTS 40 TO SEE STALIN TONIGHT AGAIN AND TO INFORM HIM THAT HE IS PREPARED 41 42 TO ACCEPT THE YALTA PROVISION ON OUTER MONGOLIA AS WORDED. HE 43 WILL TELL STALUN AGAIN THAT NO GOVERNMENT IN CHINA COULD SURVIVE 44 45 IF IT RECOGNIZED THE INDEPENDENCE OF OUTER MONGOLIA AND HOPES 46 TO BE ABLE TO CONVINCE STALIN THAT THE GENERALISSIMO CANNOT 47 48 49 No. I ADMIRAL. No. 2 FILE. No. 3F- I OR CHARTROOM. No. 4 SPECIAL. 50 51 TOP SECRET 52 Handle only in accordance with "Top Secret" instructions contained in Article 76, Navy Regulations. COPY NO. OPNAV 19-78