Office of the Historian

File No. 111.70An2/a

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Netherlands ( Langhorne)

[Telegram]
Washington, September 21, 1917, 3 p.m.

687. Frank E. Anderson, special agent, sailed 18th instant on Carmania for England on his way to Holland. He will make confidential investigations for the Department and also for the Legation at your request, particularly as regards trading with the enemy.1

Please assist him and do everything possible to preserve his cover. He goes apparently as representing the American Woolen Co.

He will draw on the Department for salary of $10 per day, $3 for subsistence and transportation. Should it be necessary for him to travel in Holland, expenses may be defrayed out of special fund at your disposal.

Lansing
  1. In further reference to Anderson’s instructions, see telegram to the Chargé in Switzerland, No. 1208, Dec. 10, post, p. 466.↩