Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill 1
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Number 602, personal and top secret, from the President for the Former Naval Person.
Referring to our agreement that the Octagon Conference should be on the Teheran scale I find by consultation with my Chiefs of Staff with which I am in agreement that the Teheran scale on the American Staff included the four Chiefs of Staff with their eleven military assist ants, a total of fifteen officers.2
[Page 19]I am therefore limiting those officers who will go to Quebec with me to fifteen, not counting Leahy, Watson, Brown and McIntire.
- Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.↩
- In a letter of August 26, 1944, to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Roosevelt stated: “… I am pleading with Winston not to bring a large staff with him. The meeting is supposed to be on the Teheran side where I had a staff of fifteen Americans and Winston had the same. This did not include our two or three personal aides.” For the full text of this letter, see F. D. R.: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt assisted by Joseph P. Lash (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), vol. ii, p. 1536.↩