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[Part I] To VIKTOR[i].<br />

USSR Ref No: S/NBF/T447<br />

Xxxxxxxxx Issued: xxx/25/1/1954<br />

Copy No: 205<br />

“AKhMED’s” REPORT OF A CONFIDENTIAL<br />

PRESS CONFERENCE HELD BY “MEN”<br />

From: NEW YORK JIA 06.08<br />

JIA 09.11<br />

To: MOSCOW JIA 12.14<br />

Nos: 1766-1768 15 December 1944<br />

[Three-part message complete]<br />

According to a report of AKhMED [ii] on<br />

26th October 1944 in CARTHAGE [KARFAGEN] [iii] the master<br />

of the COUNTRY HOUSE [DAChA][iv] (hence<strong>for</strong>th ‘MEN [MEN]”[v])<br />

gave a confidential interview to seven or eight selected<br />

correspondents. Here is the gist of what MEN said:<br />

1. During the conversations with the LONDON<br />

Poles the Russians expressed themselves “frankly and<br />

honestly".<br />

“So far we have not recognized the Russians’<br />

claims to the Curzon Line. The Government of the U.S.A.<br />

has not made any commitment in this respect. I am<br />

quite sure that Russia will defend her claims to her<br />

future frontiers with extreme tenacity.’ The USSR<br />

adopts a very realistic attitude to Poland and the other<br />

small countries of Eastern Europe. For her evidently<br />

Distribution<br />

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br />

S/NBF/T447<br />

[3 Pages]<br />

[Continued overleaf]<br />

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