740.0011 E.W./9–744: Telegram
The Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
Ankara, September 7, 1944—5 p.m.
[Received September 8—10:45 p.m.]
[Received September 8—10:45 p.m.]
1676. The Bulgarian Minister has informed me that in the course of a telephone conversation with Sofia yesterday he was told that approximately 5000 Germans had thus far been disarmed in Bulgaria and that 230 vessels of different sizes operating on the Danube for German account had been disarmed and the crews interned. As of September 6, according to the Bulgarian Government in Sofia, no Soviet troops had as yet entered Bulgaria.
Repeated to Moscow.
Steinhardt