Office of the Historian

Hopkins Papers: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Presidents Special Assistant (Hopkins)1

secret
routine
Moscow, 12 November 1943.

Personal and secret for Hopkins from Harriman.

Since cabling the President last night2 about our joining him at Cairo on the 22nd I have been wondering whether it would not be of value for us to make our reports prior to the meeting with Molotov. We have of course considerable information both military and political of reactions to and developments since the Conference broke up which perhaps should be discussed beforehand.3

  1. Sent by the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.↩
  2. Telegram of November 12, 1943, ante, p. 80.↩
  3. See ante, p. 81, footnote 4.↩