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Post-Armistice problems of occupation and control of Bulgaria; setting up of Allied (Soviet) Control Commission; application to Bulgaria of the Crimea Declaration on Liberated Europe and of the Berlin (Potsdam) Declaration of August 2, 1945 123

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. iii, pp. 481–514.

2. Signed at Yalta, February 11, 1945, by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin; for text see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, pp. 968, 971.

3. See communiqué issued by the Berlin Conference, Foreign Relations, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, vol. ii, p. 1499. For additional documentation relating to Bulgaria, see ibid., vol. i, Index, pp. 1060–1061; vol. ii, Index, pp. 1606–1607.

[270] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 7, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received 4:20 p.m.]

740.00119 Potsdam/8–745: Telegram

[271] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 7, 1945—5 p.m.
[Received 6:15 p.m.]

874.00/8–745: Telegram

[272] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 7, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received August 7—4:25 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/8–745: Telegram

[273] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 9, 1945—noon.
[Received 12:43 p.m.]

874.00/8–945: Telegram

[274] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, August 9, 1945—midnight.
[Received August 10—9:42 a.m.]

874.00/8–945: Telegram

[276] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 11, 1945—1 p.m.
[Received August 11—11:10 a.m.]

740.00119 Potsdam/8–1145: Telegram

[277] The Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, August 11, 1945—3 p.m.

874.00/8–1145: Telegram

[278] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 11, 1945.
[Received August 11—2 p.m.]

874.00/8–1145: Telegram

[279] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 13, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received August 13—5:03 p.m.]

874.00/8–1435: Telegram

[280] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 14, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received August 15—10:10 a.m.]

874.00/8–1445: Telegram

[283] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 15, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 5 p.m.]

874.00/8–1545: Telegram

[284] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 16, 1945.
[Received August 16—10:12 a.m.]

874.00/8–1645: Telegram

[285] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 16, 1945—noon.
[Received 12:10 p.m.]

874.00/8–1645: Telegram

[286] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 17, 1945—noon.
[Received 6:30 p.m.]

874.00/8–1745: Telegram

[287] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

Washington, August 17, 1945—6 p.m.

740.00119 Control (Hungary)/8–1745: Telegram

[288] The Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, August 17, 1945—8 p.m.

811.91274/8–1745: Telegram

[289] The Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, August 18, 1945.

740.00119 EW/8–1845: Telegram

[290] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 18, 1945—10 a.m.
[Received 2:15 p.m.]

874.00/8–1845: Telegram

[291] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 18, 1945—noon.
[Received 3 p.m.]

761.74/8–1845: Telegram

[292] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 20, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 3:20 p.m.]

874.00/8–2045: Telegram

[293] The Secretary of State to the British Chargé (Balfour)

Washington , August 20, 1945.

874.00/8–945

[294] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 21, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received August 22—10:50 a.m.]

874.00/8–2145: Telegram

[295] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 21, 1945.
[Received August 22—10:45 a.m.]

874.00/8–2145: Telegram

[296] The Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, August 21, 1945—8 p.m.

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/8–645: Telegram

[297] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 21, 1945.
[Received August 22—9:16 a.m.]

874.00/8–2145: Telegram

[298] Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, United States Political Adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater, to the Secretary of State

Caserta, August 21, 1945.
[Received August 22—7 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/8–2145: Airgram

[299] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 22, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 4:07 p.m.]

874.00/8–2245: Telegram