811.113 Senate Investigation/55
Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State (Welles)
The Argentine Ambassador called this morning at the Department of State and said, by instruction of his Government, that the Argentine Government would greatly appreciate having for its confidential information the text of certain telegrams which had been referred to in the hearings before the Special Committee of the Senate,30 which had not been made public, but which it was understood from press reports dealt with transactions between certain American munitions manufacturers and officials of the Argentine Government and which, allegedly, involved the son of a former President of the Argentine Republic. The Ambassador stated that his Government desired the text of these telegrams solely for its own confidential information and not for publication.
The Ambassador added that he appreciated greatly, and he was sure that his Government appreciated, the courteous attitude shown by the Special Committee of the Senate in not permitting the text of these messages to be published, but that the Argentine Government believed the information contained in these messages might be of value to it in the investigation which the Argentine Government was now carrying on as the result of certain charges made in the course of the hearings here.
- On September 27, copies of the telegrams were transmitted by the Secretary of State to the Argentine Ambassador.↩