Office of the Historian

861.24/1134a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Second Secretary of Embassy in the Soviet Union (Thompson), at Moscow

Washington, October 24, 1942—3 p.m.

319. For Faymonville from Stettinius. Reference Moscow’s 48, February 27, 5 p.m., regarding Soviet agreement in principle for exchange of technical information regarding synthetic rubber.

The War Production Board proposes to send a group of technical experts not expected to exceed five in number to confer with experts of the Soviet synthetic rubber industry and to exchange technical information on a reciprocal basis with Soviet technicians in relation to the manufacture of Buna–S synthetic rubber and its constituent materials.

As the War Production Board is most anxious to send this group as soon as possible please ascertain from the interested Soviet authorities who initiated the suggestion whether or not such a mission would still be agreeable and practicable in which case necessary approach can be made by Embassy to Foreign Office.

Repeated to Kuibyshev. [Stettinius.]

Hull