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DECLASSIFIED Ly authority of Rept gather FR.1945 TOP- PEPORT NLT-271 $. VII P. 246 Dater/2:23 is TOP SECRET 27 APRIL 1945 PRIORITY 1945 APR 27 21 59 3401 FROM: OPNAV TO : ALUSNA, LONDON 2721172 NCR NUMBER 15, PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET, FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER. Referring to your No. 18, I have sent the following message to Stalin: QUOTE. I have received a message addressed to you and to me by Prime Minister Churchill on 27 April in regard to an orderly pro- cedure for the occupation by our forces of the zones which they will occupy in Germany and Austria. This will inform you that I am in full agreement with the above referred to message addressed to both of us by Prime Minister Churchill and I will inform him also of my agreement therewith. UNQUOTE. TRUMAN Released from the White House Map Room at 2721172 April 1945: Rolertru Rogue TAHOM ROBERT W. BOGUE, Lieutenant, USNR. - 1 - TOP SECIER