With defeated Germany under four-power control, (United States, United Kingdom ,Franc,and Soviet Union), Berlin bacame a symbol of the Cold War as relations between Moscow and the West rapidly deteriorated after World War II. The United States response was to be a policy of global containment of the Soviet Union specifically and communism in general. This doctrine was crafted by one sent to "Wise Men," diplomat George Kennan, both in a classified long telegram he was Washington in February from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow where he then Deputy Chief Mission (DCM) and,later , in an anonymous article signed "X" published in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs, journal of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.