Office of the Historian

811.42700(R)/5–1248: Telegram

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

secret
Moscow, May 12, 1948—1 p. m.

887. Reply of Foreign Office to Embassy request for determination source interference American stations on 9750, 11730, 15130, 15250 KC (Embtel 807 and despatch 391 April 301) consists repetition statement Soviet stations not using those frequencies. Copy note by airmail.2

For reasons stated ref desp recommend no further protest Soviet Government but employment whatever technical means available avoid jamming with brief statement (if we are confident that such is case) that programs experiencing artificial interference and that listeners should search within certain wave lengths, for program which will continue be presented usual time.

Department pass Vladivostok 70.

Durbrow
  1. Despatch No. 391 not found in Department of State files.↩
  2. The Foreign Ministry’s note No. 71 of May 8, 1948, was transmitted in despatch No. 418 from Moscow on May 13, not printed. The note stated that these frequencies were not used by radio stations in the Soviet Union, as had already been indicated in notes No. 45 of April 12, and No. 54 of April 19, neither printed.↩