874.00/11–2045: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:05 p.m.]
3904. There follows translation of pertinent part of Vyshinski’s letter of November 19 acknowledging my letter informing him of the message which Barnes handed the Bulgarian Govt regarding the Bulgarian elections.
“Deem it advisable to remark that the Soviet Govt does not share the evaluation contained in your letter of the political situation in Bulgaria and cannot agree with the statement concerning the absence in Bulgaria at the present time of satisfactory conditions for the carrying of free elections to the National Assembly.”
To the Dept 3904, repeated to Sofia 133, London 587.