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

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S. NLT-113 ARCHIVES AWO EXACT TRANSLATION (U. S.) = SERVICE* RECORDS or Copy / (RESTRICTED) (CONFIDENTIAL) (SECRET) OP PRIORITY URGENT (PRIORITY) (ROUTINE) (DEFERRED) MWONLIGHT PESSONAL AND TOPSECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM AHRRIMEN X SOONG HAD ANOTHER TACK WITH STALIN TONIGHT X HE TELLS ME THAT HA CECEE HE HAS COME TO AN UNDERSTANDI ING ON ALL MATTERS ALONG THE GENERAL LINES PREVIOUSLY REPORTED EXCEPT FOR SOMEAPOINTS AS TO THE RAILROADS AND THE PORTS X AFTER LONG ARGUMENT STALIN AGREED THAT THE GUARDS SHOULD BE CHINESE AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO=RAT NO RIGHTS TO MOVE O/ SSFIET TROOPS IN MANCHURIA X THE FORCES GOING TO PORT ARTHUR WOULD BE MOVED BY SEA X THE PINAL POINT NXT AGREED TOWREGARDING THE RAILROADS IS CONTROL OF THE MANAGEMENT X STALIN STILL INSISTS ON A MAJORITY OF THE DIRECTORS WHICH SOONE HAS RESISTED X SOONG HAS OFFERED JOINT OPERATION WITH EQUAL PARTICIPATION IN THE BOARD AND THE MANAGEMENT X TT CLAMBAKE ALAGAHGVG COLOSSAL FOSSIL II AS TO THE PORTS STALIN STILL INSISTS THAT THE MILITARY XONE UNDER RUSSIAN CONTROL SHOULD INCLUDE DAIREN AS WELL AS PORT ARTHUR A=NECCEE AND From Reference No. 120055 NCR No. 8059 To TOX Indicator Decoded by DECLASSIFIED by authority of particuttate F.1.1945 Date July 45 V.P.VII Pape 932 OPNAV 19-61 laitials HC Date 4673 1/3