DOC IS LETTER FROM ARTHUR LANE TO ALLEN DULLES CONCERNING FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES IN EASTERN EUROPE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00029936
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• Document Creation Date: September 12, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2023
• Case Number: F-2021-01777
• Publication Date: July 16, 1948

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ARTHUR :BLISS LANE
2442 Massachusetts Avenue, NOT.
Washington 8, D.C.
July 16, 1948
Dear Allen:
I was distressed to learn from our telephone
conversation this morning that you had had such an
unpleasant and painful experience. I did not want you
to feel that because of my flippant reference to your
inability to bend your elbow that I was unsympathetic.
If it is not convenient for you to come to
Washington, I would be glad to go to New York to.see
you. I suggest, however, that it would be preferable
if you could come here. After we have had a preli-
minary' talk I.would want you to .meetillOPANSMIMIsrumat,
I know nobody who is more ntimately
connected with P61ish American affairs th
He had told me confidentially that he would 'be glad to
help in any way possible In the c.ampaign. He is, I am
sure, very much fed up with the policy of the present
administration towards Poland, especially the eell-out
in 1944. He was, during the past year, most helpful
to me in keeping me posted regarding developments
affecting Poland which I used to some advantage on my
lecture tour. For instance, throughout*** I
believe that we were able to ridicule the Bohlen-
Acheson-McCloy proposal to grant an International Bank
loan of $60,000,000 to the Polish Government for the ,
use of mining machinery to increase the output of coal
(to increase the output of steel, to increase the out-
put of Skoda war material).
In the talks that I hope to make in October
and November I would very much like to emphasize two
points if I could be so authorized by Governor Dewey:
Allen W. Dulles, Esquire
48 weal Street
New York, N. Y.
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Allen W. Dulles, Esquire -2- July 16, 1948
(1) the Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam agreements--in that
they violate Articles I, II and III of the Atlantic
Charter--should be repudiated by the United States
Government; (2) primary consideration in the appoint-
ment of United States diplomatic representatives abroad
Will be given to the efficiency, experiencb and intelli-
gence of the appointees. The sorry experience which we
have had during the last sixteen years in the appointment
of diplomatic representatives (including J. Herman Thrupak)
warrants, in my opinion, a public statement at this
critical time in our foreign relations.
The other matter on which I touched very little
over the telephone the other day has to do with the
desirability of our maintaining, unofficially, contaot
with the various underground movements in Europe. Some
friends and I have a skeleton organization which receives
valuable information from various undergrounds. We re-
ceived a most valuable report the other day on the
situation in Berlin, and I am asking a mutual friend of
.ours to furnish you a copy so that you can evaluate its
worth. I should be glad if you would think over the
possibility of our obtaining a Santa Claus (I had in mind
Barney Baruch) who, because of his patriotism would be
willing to ensure the maintenance of this work, for which
we require a budget of about $36,000 per annum. The
relationships we have are with France, Germany, Czecho-
slovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. As you know,
our embassies/are, in general, no longer in a position to
obtain information from non-Communist sources; conse-
quently, cyandestine contact such as we have established
is in my opinion highly desirable. We have been furnish-
ing the information on a strictly confidential basis to
certair/officials in the Government on the understanding,
howevei-, that the sources of the information are under
no codition to be disclosed.
With every good wish to you and love to Clover,
c_74.
Yours as ever,
II
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