740.00119 Control (Rumania)/10–2844: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
2801. Reurtel 4584 November 30, 9 p.m.84 You should address a communication to the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs referring to Ambassador Harriman’s letter of October 13 to Vyshinsky. The Embassy’s 4584 November 30 says that no reply to Ambassador Harriman’s letter of October 13, which presumably stated the points set [Page 278] forth in Department’s 2418 October 12, has been received. Your 4133 October 28, however, indicated a reply had been received indicating Soviet agreement to the appointment of an American political representative, stating that the Soviet Government had in view the parallel with Italy. Kostylev, Soviet representative in Italy, and Bogomolov, Soviet member of the Advisory Council for Italy, have the privilege of direct communication in code with the Soviet Government. It has been the Department’s understanding that the Soviet Government had agreed, either orally or in writing, to Berry’s having freedom of communication in code. (See in this connection Molotov’s statement to the Rumanian delegation on September 12 reported in your despatch no. 1066 of October 7, enclosure no. 5th.85) Please inform the Soviet Government of the Department’s position on this matter and request that communication in code be immediately permitted between the American Embassy in Moscow and the American mission in Bucharest.
The Department has not yet received from Caserta or from Bucharest any information in reply to the inquiries contained in your 42 to AmPolAd Caserta repeated to the Department as 4584 November 30.