Moscow Embassy Files—710 Sino-Soviet Relations: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to President Truman and the Secretary of State
[Paraphrase]
[Moscow, August 8, 1945.]
082330. [Here follows report of conversation recorded in memorandum of August 8 printed supra.]
It is difficult for me to believe, in spite of Stalin’s assurances, that there can be a truly free port under Soviet management with security control by Soviet secret police and I see in the Yalta Agreement nothing which would obligate us to support an arrangement of the kind described.
[Harriman]