874.00/8–2145: Telegram
The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 22—10:45 a.m.]
462. Following Tass dispatch is of considerable interest in connection with local election situation and post election plans of Fatherland Front:
“The Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR has granted the request of the Deputy of the Soviet Union, Georgi Dimitrov, to [Page 299] be relieved of his function as a Deputy of the Supreme Council of the USSR and of Soviet citizenship because he is standing as a candidate on the Fatherland Front list of elections to the Bulgarian National Assembly.”