740.00119 EAC/4–2945: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 29—1:45 p.m.]
1413. When I visited the Foreign Affairs Commissariat this afternoon on another matter the acting chief of the American Section took the occasion to refer to the intention of our Government to send an official group to Vienna to arrange zones of occupation and to participate in establishment of machinery of control and informed me under instructions of his Government that the movement of our party to [Page 101] Vienna “can be carried out after EAC has fixed the zones of occupation for that city”. He explained that the Soviet Government considered that the three major Allied Governments had decided that this should be matter for EAC and that until EAC had completed its action on this subject the arrival of our group in Vienna would be premature and undesirable.
He indicated that Gousev now had instructions which would permit him to proceed immediately to the further discussion of this matter in EAC and he thought we would have no difficulty in getting on with the discussions there.
Sent to Department, repeated to Caserta for Erhardt as 70 and to London for EAC as 185.