861.2423/12–445: Telegram
The Ambassador in Poland (Lane) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 5—8:08 p.m.]
630. Jakob Berman, Under Secretary of State of Council of Ministers and Polish Workers Party member in speech at recent meeting of Warsaw PPR (Polish Workers Party), declared that atomic bomb is not monopoly of one country. “Soviet Russia, leading in science, technical and social progress, is also in possession of atomic power.”
Mieczyslaw Wolfke (see International Who’s Who 1944–45) called at the Embassy recently and informed officer in strictest confidence that from conversations with Polish colleagues who had worked in an elaborate Russian laboratory near Moscow he had come to conclusion that Russians had been able to manufacture two or three atomic bombs. He said that Russian laboratory was magnificently equipped and that only factor which might limit success of experiments there was the quality of the personnel.
Sent to Dept as 630, repeated to Moscow as 97.