Office of the Historian

861.24591/3–1546: Telegram

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

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Moscow, March 15, 1946.
[Received March 15—10:29 a.m.]

815. Soviet press March 15 publishes Tass denial reading as follows in translation:

There has been published in American press a statement of State Department of USA that there is taking place in Iran a shifting of Soviet Military units through Tehran and [toward?] western frontier of Iran. Tass is authorized to state that this report absolutely does not correspond to reality.

Sent Department 815, repeated Tehran 62, Tabriz and Frankfurt.

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