File No. 801.00/1086
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia ( Francis)
[Telegram]
Washington,
February 13, 1918, 7 p.m.
2061. Department has reports that under officials of Bolshevik government freely granting licenses for carrying business and for export also when graft offered. Also that anarchistic tendencies in factories led by a former American Shatov are further impeding complications created by Bolshevik decrees of public ownership. Please investigate the foregoing and report. Consul and commercial attaché should have data to assist your inquiries.
Lansing