Office of the Historian

740.00119 EW/7–2944: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, July 29, 1944—8 p.m.
[Received July 30—3:35 a.m.]

2806. I left with Vyshinski95 today and [an] aide-mémoire containing the substance of the Department’s 1783, July 27, 2 p.m.96 In reply [Page 354] to my inquiries Vyshinski stated that the Soviet Government had received no recent information on the situation in Bulgaria and that, although he wished to study carefully the aide-mémoire, it was difficult for him to say at this time how seriously the Bulgarian statements should be taken.

Harriman
  1. Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩
  2. Not printed; it summarized Bulgarian reports in telegrams from Istanbul (740.00119 E.W./7–2744).↩