Lot 55D128: Black Book, Tab 104: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union 1
232. Deptels 224, 225, Sept 28. Proposed approach has not yet been cleared. We are repeating to you Tokyo’s 658, Sept 30, containing Bohlen’s report of Genl Ridgway’s and Genl Bradley’s views. We concur that it wld be undesirable for you travel to Black Sea area in order see Stalin. Therefore you shld not request see Stalin but shld make your approach directly to Vyshinski asking him convey your remarks to PriMin.
Our tentative thought on timing of approach is that you shld see Vyshinski on Fri Oct 5. Suggest you make appointment by Wed for Fri interview. If we are unable obtain final clearance for this approach you might merely use occasion your interview to take informal leave Vyshinski explaining your personal plan accordance second para Deptel 224.
If you receive authorization make this approach Vyshinski suggest you take up local Emb problems (Embtel 536, Sept 28) with Gromyko or Zorin.2
- Repeated for information to London as telegram 1761, to Paris as telegram 1909, and to Tokyo as telegram 517.↩
- Documentation on this topic is covered in the compilation on the Soviet Union in volume IV. Andrei Gromyko and Valerian Zorin were Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union. Telegram 536 is not printed.↩