861.51/3045: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
1022. Reference your 1360 of April 1978 and earlier telegrams. The agreement for the orderly liquidation of certain parts of the lend-lease program will soon be submitted to the Russians here in much the original form reported to you in our 625, 626 and 627 of March 18. A copy of the agreement as submitted and the note accompanying it79 will be sent you by air pouch.
The provision calling for the Russian purchase of inventories of lend-lease supplies in the Soviet Union after the war discussed in our 773 of April 1 has been omitted at this time, It was decided to take up that question, and the cognate matter of the disposal after the war of installations of lend-lease origin, in a separate agreement [Page 1082] to be proposed within the next few months, if further intensive study of the factual side of these problems supports such a course, both for the British and the Soviet lend-lease programs.
An identical agreement under Section 3(c) of the Lend-Lease Act is expected to be submitted shortly to the British.