Office of the Historian

File No. 861.00/1054

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)1

[Telegram]
Washington, February 7, 1918, 10 p.m.

6491. Embassy Petrograd reports that Kamenev has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Large of the [Page 370] Bolshevik government and Zalkind appointed in the same capacity to Switzerland and that passports of both have been visaed by British representatives. Please ascertain if report regarding visa is true.

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  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Ambassador in France (No. 3154).↩