861.24/7–2249
The Ambassador of the Soviet Union ( Panyushkin ) to the Secretary of State
[Translation]
No. 91
Mr. Secretary of State: With reference to the Embassy’s note No. 78 of June 26, 1949, I have the honor to state that the Soviet Government has appointed Rear Admiral N. A. Piterski and Captain Second Class M. I. Vanyukhin as experts to discuss with experts of the United States of America the dates and procedure for the return of the three icebreakers and twenty-eight frigates received by the Soviet Union under lend-lease.
The said experts will depart for the United States within a few days.1
Accept [etc.]
- The arrival of these experts on August 3 at Idlewild Airport in New York on an Air France plane from Paris was reported in the New York Times of August 4, 1949. On August 8, Vladimir Ivanovich Bazykin, the Counselor of the Embassy of the Soviet Union, informed the Department of State by telephone that they had reached Washington and were ready to begin the conversations whenever the Department advised the Embassy of its plans. (861.24/8–849)↩