Office of the Historian

861.24591/3–646: Telegram

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

secret
urgent
Moscow, March 6, 1946—4 p.m.
[Received March 6—10:30 a.m.]

682. Text of note set forth in Dept’s 385, March 5 concerning failure Soviet Govt to withdraw troops from Iran has been transmitted urgently to Molotov this morning.

Sent Dept as 682 repeated Tehran as 45 and London as 124.

Kennan