Hopkins Papers
The President to the Presidents Personal Representative (Hurley)
[Cairo,] 23 November 1943.
My Dear General Hurley: You are directed to proceed to Tehran in Iran for the accomplishment of a mission on the conditions outlined in the Secretary of State’s message to you dated at Washington, November 5, 1943, as modified by the Secretary of State’s message to you dated at Washington November 19, 1943.1
As my personal representative you are also directed to perform additional duties, the nature and the object of which I have outlined to you personally.2
Yours very sincerely,
[No signature indicated]
- The messages under reference authorized Hurley to proceed to Iran for the purpose of coordinating the activities of the several American agencies operating in Iran and of effecting closer cooperation between the American, British, Soviet, and Iranian agencies in that country (123 Hurley, Patrick J./119).↩
- The additional duties which Hurley was asked to perform apparently related to the selection of the quarters in which Roosevelt would reside while in Tehran; see post, pp. 439–440.↩