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July 5, 1950

Ciphered Telegram No. 3172, Stalin to Zhou Enlai via Roshchin

CIPHERED TELEGRAM # 3172

 

Coded, only by wire

 

Submitted at 23:45 p.m. on 07/05/50

Distribution List - 3 copies: Stalin - 2, Molotov -1

 

To BEIJING, [SOVIET] AMBASSADOR

 

Re Your ciphered telegrams ## 1112-1126

 

Tell Zhou Enlai the following:

 

1. We agree with the opinion of Chinese comrades regarding the Indian intermediation in the matter of admitting the People's [Republic of] China into the UN membership.

 

2. We consider it correct to concentrate immediately 9 Chinese divisions on the Chinese-Korean border for volunteers' actions in North Korea in the event of the enemy's crossing the 38th parallel. We will do our best to provide the air cover for these units.

 

3. Your report about the flights of the Soviet aircraft over the Manchurian territory has not been confirmed. But we have issued an order not to permit such overflights.

 

F I L I P P O V [STALIN]

 

_ 373/sh
5.7.50 [5 July 1950]
Typed by Stepanova at 0:55 a.m. on 07/
06/50

A telegram from Stalin to Zhou Enlai with regards to India's mediation in the PRC's entry into the UN, Chinese troop movements in preparation for a possible Southern/Allied counterattack, and Soviet planes flying over Manchuria.

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APRF, Fond 45, Opis 1, Delo 331, List 79; AVPRF, Fond 059a, Opis 5a, Delo 3, Papka 11, List 115; and RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 334, ll. 0079. Translated by Gary Goldberg.

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