874.00/6–1645: Telegram
The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 17—12:55 a.m.]
322. Reference my 315, June 13 [14]. All Sofia newspapers have today carried the following official communiqué:
“As a supplement to its statement of June 14, 1945 concerning the case of Mara Racheva, the Office of the National Militia wishes to announce, in connection with the plan discovered by the Militia for the escape from the country of Dr. G. M Dimitrov, that it had been learned that the following password (probably better translated as signal of readiness) was agreed upon by the participants in the organization of the plan: ‘I am ready to act with the foreigner.’ This agreed upon signal was to notify collaborators that all was ready. The expression used in the National Militia’s communiqué of the day before yesterday that she (Racheva) ‘is ready to act with the foreigner’ was merely the reproduction of this accepted password. In no case should the reproduction of this expression be interpreted to refer to any foreign diplomatic or political representative in Bulgaria”.
Repeated to Moscow as number 170.