320/11–3050: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Korea

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396. In view of possibility of UN GA consideration Chi intervention in Kor fol expected Sov veto of present six power SC draft resolution.1 [Page 1272] Dept believes wld be very helpful if UNCURK wld expeditiously transmit to UN special report on Chi Commie intervention.

Request that at ur discretion you suggest to UNCURK the desirability of such report and in conjunction with mil authorities offer facilities and assistance for its preparation.

To be of maximum usefulness, report shld be received first part next week.2

Acheson
  1. See the editorial note on the 530th meeting of the U.N. Security Council on November 30, p. 1268.
  2. On December 7, UNCURK adopted an interim report to the Secretary-General for transmission to the U.N. members concluding that Chinese forces in great numbers were attacking the U.N. Command and that these Chinese forces formed part of the armed forces of the People’s Republic of China; see U.N. document A/1881, p. 9.