Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, Volume I

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 104
The Commanding General, United States Military Mission in the Soviet Union (Deane) to the Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force (Tedder)

[Paraphrase]

top secret
urgent

Moscow, 27 June 1945.

MX 24829. From Deane and Gammell. Sent to SHAEF Main for Tedder; to Twenty-First Army Group for Field-Marshal Montgomery; to the Special Signals Office of the Air Ministry, London, for the British Chiefs of Staff; and to the Adjutant General, War Department, for the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Copy to the War Department.

Marshal Zhukov asks urgently that information be transmitted to him immediately through your representatives at present in Berlin concerning the subjects which Field-Marshal Montgomery, General Clay, and their party will want to discuss with him. We have just received information that Zhukov will meet Montgomery, Clay, and party on Friday, June 29, in Berlin.