File No. 861.00/1977
The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 9, 2.45 a.m.]
9. Papers state Chicherin answered consuls2 by saying no objection to departure Czechs if disarmed. Have telegraphed to Vologda advising reply be delayed until instructions received from our governments. Poole advises that Soviet order to disarm was dictated by Germans and many German and Austrian prisoners fighting with Red Guard against Slovaks; that Soviet government spreading Bolshevik doctrine among Slovaks and endeavoring every way to interfere with departure claiming that Slovak organization is counter-revolution movement.