Telegram from Stalin telling Mao that he is ready to receive Gao Gang and Kim Il Sung.
June 5, 1951
Ciphered Telegram No. 20448, Mao Zedong to Filippov [Stalin]
SECOND MAIN ADMINISTRATION OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE SOVIET ARMY
CIPHERED TELEGRAM No. 20448
Copies: Stalin (2)
From Beijing Received 18:30 5 June 1951
SERIES G T.
TO FILIPPOV [Stalin]
Comrade FILIPPOV!
In the course of conducting the war in KOREA we have run into such serious questions as the financial question, the question of the conduct of military operations directly at the front, the question of the danger of a possible enemy landing on the sea coast in our rear.
We intend to send Comrade GAO GANG to MOSCOW by plane in a few days to inform you regarding the aforementioned questions and to ask your directions in the matter of the resolution of these important questions.
At the present time Comrade KIM IL SUNG is in BEIJING. He wishes to go with Comrade GAO GANG for discussion of these questions with you.
I ask you to communicate your opinion about the possibility of this trip.
MAO ZEDONG
No. 2787
5.6.51
[....]
Mao asks Stalin to receive Gao Gang and Kim Il Sung in Moscow so that they may discuss military operations in Korea.
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APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 339, ll. 23; and RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 339, ll. 0023.
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