740.00114 EW/12–2944: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 30—4:30 a.m.]
5053. ReEmbs 4645, December 5, 1 p.m. I have received a letter from Vyshinski93 stating that Lieutenant General K. D. Golubev94 and Major General N. V. Slavin95 have been appointed by the Soviet Government to conduct negotiations with General Deane on questions connected with the plan mutually to repatriate American and Soviet prisoners of war and civilians in accordance with the principles set forth in Molotov’s letter to Kennan of November 25. The pertinent sections of Molotov’s letter were repeated to the Department in Embassy’s telegram 4526 of November 27.
- Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinksy, First Assistant People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.↩
- Lt. Gen. Konstantin Dmitriyevich Golubev, Deputy Chief, Soviet Commission for the Repatriation of Prisoners of War.↩
- Maj. Gen. Nikolay Vasilyevich Slavin, Assistant to the Chief of the Army General Staff.↩