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Post-Armistice problems of occupation and control of Bulgaria; setting up of Allied (Soviet) Control Commission; application to Bulgaria of the Crimea Declaration on Liberated Europe and of the Berlin (Potsdam) Declaration of August 2, 1945 123

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. iii, pp. 481–514.

2. Signed at Yalta, February 11, 1945, by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin; for text see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, pp. 968, 971.

3. See communiqué issued by the Berlin Conference, Foreign Relations, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, vol. ii, p. 1499. For additional documentation relating to Bulgaria, see ibid., vol. i, Index, pp. 1060–1061; vol. ii, Index, pp. 1606–1607.

[240] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, June 14, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received 4:50 p.m.]

874.00/6–1445: Telegram

[241] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, June 16, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 11:40 p.m.]

874.00/6–1645: Telegram

[242] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, June 16, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received 5:20 p.m.]

874.00/6–1645: Telegram

[243] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, June 16, 1945.
[Received June 17—12:55 a.m.]

874.00/6–1645: Telegram

[244] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, June 20, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received June 20—6 p.m.]

874.00/6–2045: Telegram

[245] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, June 26, 1945—10 a.m.
[Received 2:58 p.m.]

874.00/6–2645: Telegram

[246] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, June 26, 1945—midnight.
[Received June 27—7:20 a.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/6–2645: Telegram

[247] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 6, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received July 8—12:50 p.m.]

874.00/7–645: Telegram

[248] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 7, 1945—11 a.m.
[Received 4:10 p.m.]

874.00/7–745: Telegram

[249] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 7, 1945—11 a.m.
[Received July 8—12:50 p.m.]

811.91274/7–745: Telegram

[250] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 7, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received July 8—12:53 p.m.]

874.00/7–745: Telegram

[251] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 8, 1945—noon.
[Received 3:33 p.m.]

874.00/7–845: Telegram

[252] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, July 12, 1945—4 p.m.

874.00/7–645: Telegram

[253] The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, July 17, 1945—10 p.m.
[Received July 17—8:30 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/7–1745: Telegram

[254] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, July 18, 1945—8 p.m.

874.00/7–1745: Telegram

[255] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 19, 1945—11 a.m.
[Received July 30—6 p.m.]

874.00/7–1945: Airgram

[256] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, July 24, 1945—8 p.m.

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/7–2445: Telegram

[257] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 25, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received July 26—9:25 a.m.]

874.00/7–2545: Telegram

[258] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 25, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received July 26—8:50 a.m.]

874.00/7–2545: Telegram

[259] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 27, 1945.
[Received July 27—12:25 p.m.]

874.00/7–2745: Telegram

[260] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, July 27, 1945—5 p.m.

874.00/7–2545: Telegram

[261] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 28 (27?), 1945—midnight.
[Received July 28—3:05 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/7–2845: Telegram

[262] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, July 28, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received July 28—12:46 p.m.]

874.00/7–2845: Telegram

[263] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, July 31, 1945—6 p.m.

811.91274/7–745: Telegram

[264] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, August 2, 1945—6 p.m.

874.00/7–2845: Telegram

[265] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 3, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 3:33 p.m.]

874.00/8–345: Telegram

[266] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 4, 1945—noon.
[Received August 4—10:10 a.m.]

874.00/8–445: Telegram

[267] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 6, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 7:45 p.m.]

874.00/8–645: Telegram

[268] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 6, 1945—5 p.m.
[Received 5:30 p.m.]

874.00/8–645: Telegram

[269] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 6, 1945—9 p.m.
[Received August 7—10:47 a.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/8–645: Telegram