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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.

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

Washington, May 26, 1945—5 p.m.

874.00/5–2645: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 27, 1945—1 a.m.
[Received 10:45 a.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/5–2745: Telegram

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

Washington, May 27, 1945—3 p.m.

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/5–2745: Telegram

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

Washington, May 28, 1945—8 p.m.

874.00/5–2845: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 28, 1945—8 p.m.
[Received May 28—9:07 p.m.]

874.00/5–2845: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 28, 1945—9 p.m.
[Received May 289 p.m.]

874.00/5–2845: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 29, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received May 29—12:34 p.m.]

874.00/5–2945: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 29, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received May 29—2:30 p.m.]

874.00/5–2945: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 30, 1945—11 a.m.
[Received May 30—9:51 a.m.]

874.00/5–3045: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 30, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received 7:35 p.m.]

874.00/5–3045: Telegram

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

Moscow, May 30, 1945—midnight.
[Received June 2—10:30 a.m.]

874.00/5–3045: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 31, 1945—11 a.m.
[Received May 31—11 a.m.]

874.00/5–3145: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 31, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received May 31—2:15 p.m.]

874.00/5–3145: Telegram

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

Sofia, May 31, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received May 31—2:48 p.m.]

874.00/5–3145: Telegram

[226] The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Greece (MacVeagh)

Washington, May 31, 1945—6 p.m.

868.00/5–3145: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 1, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received June 1—1:15 p.m.]

874.00/6–145: Telegram

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

Moscow, June 1, 1945—midnight.
[Received June 2—11:22 a.m.]

874.00/6–145: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 2, 1945—1 p.m.
[Received June 2—10:18 a.m.]

874.00/6–245: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 2, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received June 2—1:48 p.m.]

874.00/6–245: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 4, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received June 4—4:40 p.m.]

874.00/6–445: Telegram

[233] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, June 5, 1945—9 p.m.
[Received June 5—7:40 p.m.]

874.00/6–545: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 6, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received June 6—4:05 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/6–645: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 7, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 3:55 p.m.]

874.00/6–745: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 7, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received June 8—6:10 p.m.]

874.00/6–745: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 11, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received June 11—3:37 p.m.]

874.00/6–1145: Telegram

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

Washington, June 12, 1945—7 p.m.

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/5–1745: Telegram

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

Sofia, June 14, 1945.
[Received June 14—3:12 p.m.]

874.00/6–1445: Telegram