Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
The President to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)1
Number 159, Personal and Top Secret, from the President to Ambassador Harriman.
Please inform Stalin that I have told Churchill that I will meet with him and Stalin at Yalta on the second of February.
Stalin may wish to extend an invitation to Churchill who has informed me that he will be pleased to meet with us at Yalta.
It is assumed that you will provide from Moscow the number of Russian speaking American officers necessary to handle at the conference details of our contacts with local Soviet officials.
Mr. Bohlen will come from here to act as my official interpreter.
It appears probable that our party at Yalta from here will number eighty instead of seventy as previously stated.
Please inform us as soon as possible in regard to the housing arrangements for my party and also regarding the provision of a motor car for my personal use.
- Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.↩