Office of the Historian

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–1645: Telegram

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

Sofia, April 16, 1945, 11 p.m. [a.m.]
[Received 5:05 p.m.]

205. A note from the ACC states the Commission (the Russians, I assume, because neither the American or British delegate has been consulted) has found it necessary to close the direct radio link Sofia, London and Postal and Radio communications between Bulgaria and Portugal and Bulgaria and Spain; also all Postal telegram and telephone [Page 187] communications between Bulgaria, Switzerland, Sweden, Rumania, Turkey and Yugoslavia, will in the future be restricted to use of government departments and foreign missions. All messages to and via London are hereafter to be routed via Moscow.

Repeated to Moscow as 92 and to AmPolAd as 100.

Barnes