Potsdam Conference (TERMINAL)

864.918/7-1745: Telegram

The Representative in Hungary to the Acting Secretary of State

Budapest, July 17, 1945 — 4 p.m.
Secret
297

Gregoriev Pushkin’s Assistant has asked Balogh for list Hungarian newspapermen previously correspondents wholly or in part for foreign newspapers and who will presumably engage in reporting subsequent to reestablishment international communications. This is first evidence Russians will raise blackout on foreign correspondents but there are no indications they will permit uncontrolled reporting.

SCHOENFELD