740.00119 P.W./8–2145: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, August 21,
1945.
[Received August 21—10:30 p.m.]
[Received August 21—10:30 p.m.]
2985. Press, August 21, announced appointment of Lt. Gen. Derevyanko29a as representative of Soviet Forces to General MacArthur.
Sent Dept, repeated American Embassy, Chungking, 100.
[
Harriman
]- Lt. Gen. Kuzma Nikolayevich Derevyanko, field observer in the Pacific theater in 1945.↩