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SECRET (CORRECTED COPY) of JUN 23 P.M. TOP SUCKET - TOT COPY 23 June 1945 From: United States Military Attache, London 11 To: The President of The United States Nr: 98 Fld: 231313Z Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and TOP SECRET. Number 98. Reference my 94. E a A. Stalin has replied as follows--begins. I have received your message of the 17th June. 1. The delegations will be housed as you propose in your message and as was arranged in the Crimea. Each delega- tion will have its own closed territory under a regime regu- lated at the discretion of the head of the delegation. The area in which the three delegations will be housed is Babelsberg, southeast of Potsdam. There will be a fourth building for the joint sessions--the Palace of the German Crown Prince in Potsdam. 2. Marshal Zhukov will be in Berlin on June 28th. The advance parties of Montgomery and Eisenhower should be sent in about this time to reconnoitre and take over the DECLASSIFTED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) OF no Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1872 ANLING 11-4-7f FOP SECREE