momma TELEGRAM Department of State -- RECORD COPY II This capy 3 37 3 s Action Control 18655 3 30 EUR - Rec'cl Novemberg 3% FROM Bucharest EP ff- 4 05 a ms Info I RMR T0 Secretary of State - 13 SE NO 338 November 27 2 SP - SENT DEPARTMENT 338 smarts caters BELGRADE 31 MOSCOW 29 IO DEPARTMENT PASS WEI 2 33 Reference London telegram ttini2 Repeated Fucharest 2O J- T In IEGTEL 252 to reports as lesser summoned Moscow DctOb r 31 had not reams-ad up to sot-ember 1This OLI continues seem more probable chit-anal leviet E nman ui a a negotiation than Khrushchev visit hens that till-as which 68% does not form part otherwise abn-snda lloea rumor crop Legation cannot suppose militar- advisers OSD would have failed nip in bud anyr suggestion a part that Romanian troops be used for serious work in Hunger Token val presences side by side with Soviet troops would he been AIR another question but for such use their morale would have SIC been factor little account Accordingly Legation skeptical re certain central statements Lowenthal source All in all if Gheorghi Dej conversations with Khrushchev took place Legation believes they related primarily to immediate urgency clearing Romanian rail lines for heavy Soviet tank and troop traffic November 3 weekend 5 257 reported ammunition Romanian Army rumored heaving guarded and controlled by hard core commie government officigs More recently careful observation has failed produce visual evidence this true much less show army handing over arms to- Soviet forces 5 I a PERMANENT CONFIDENTIAL 9 1 when W193 99 1mm Sitting sum 0% I 3