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NLT-27f TOP-SECRET S. = is AND TOP SECRET 1 May 1945 PRIORITY 1945 MAY I 14 4.3 JOOU FROM: OPNAV TO : ALUSNA, LONDON 0114422 NCR NUMBER 21, PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET, FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER. Your No. 24, General Eisenhower's present attitude, in regard to operations in Cxechoslovakia, which meets with my approval is as follows: QUOTE. The Soviet General Staff now contemplates operations into the Vitava Valley. My intention, as soon as current operations permit, is to proceed and destroy any remaining organized German forces. If a move into Czechoslovakia is then desirable, and if conditions here permit, our logical initial move would be on Pilsen and Karlsbad. I shall not attempt any move which I deem militarily unwise. UNQUOTE. signed TRUMAN DECLASSIFIED by authority of F.R.1965 VIIIP. 446 Initials, He Dataz: 7-73 Released from the White House Map Room at 0114422 May 1945: Polict my ROBERT H. MYERS, Lieutenant, USNR. WIBUF 12-9 V TOP-SECRET - 1 -

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