740.00119 E.W./10–1344: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan)
2590. ReEmbs 3933 October 13. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have informed the Department that they perceive no objection from the military point of view to this Government’s agreement to the armistice terms for Hungary proposed by the Soviet Government. They point out, however, that “with reference to the Annex to Article I, it is considered desirable that, in the future tripartite discussion of these terms, the United States secure assurance that the military information obtained as a result of the armistice shall be made equally available to all three Allies”. You should therefore, in your discussion of the terms in Moscow, endeavor to secure the desired assurance, either by the insertion of the necessary phrases in the text of Annex A to Article I as it now stands in the Soviet draft or by securing a separate agreement among the three Allied Governments, in a protocol or other suitable form, that military information obtained as a result of the armistice be made equally available to all three.