Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the President¹

secret
urgent

Moscow, 2 November 1943.

Most secret for the President only from Hull

A message has been given me from the person highest in authority to be delivered to you personally in extreme secrecy. The message promises to get in and help to defeat the enemy.

Remainder follows in another code.²

1. Sent by the United States Naval Attaché Moscow, via Navy channels.
2. Hull wrote, in his Memoirs, vol. ii, p. 1311: “The information Stalin had given me on his decision regarding Japan I regarded as so secret that I sent one-half of it to the President over the Navy code and the other half over the Army code.”