Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Major General William Donovan with Related Material

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TRUMAN Office of august 25,1945 HARRY $5 - ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE" GOVERNMENT AND LIBRARY My dear General Donovent 1 consider it inadvisable to make any reply to the message transmitted by you on August 18, 1945, from Hg. Kim Ku who represents himself as X the head of the "Provisional Government of Kores". 2 would appreciate your instructing your agents as *471 to the impropriety of their neting as a channel for the transmission to BE of meanages from represent- atives of self-styled governments which are not recognized by the Government of the United States. 44 Very sincerely yours, (Sgd) HARRY S. TRUMAN Najor General William J. Donoven, x128-B Director, Office of Strategic Services, Washington, D.C. x lo. F. State