861.51/3020: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)
83. We are substantially in agreement with considerations raised in your telegram no. 68 of January 9 and previous telegrams. We have been unable as yet to discuss the matter with Harry Hopkins who is ill but we hope soon to give you something in reply to the specific questions for guidance in your conversations with Mikoyan. However, in view of the importance of this question and of the interest [Page 1039] of other departments and agencies of the Government in it, this subject must be carefully and thoroughly studied by many officials of the Government before any definite instructions can be issued to you. We will keep you fully advised.