File No. 863.00/2160
The Consul at Moscow (Poole) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 28, 5.12 a.m.]
637. … of Siberian Cooperative Societies, Novo Nikolaevsk, who chances to be in Moscow, in personal interview with me to-day replied to the questions stated in the Department’s unnumbered June 5, 12 p.m.,1 almost identically with the member of the board of the All-Russian Union, whose views were reported in my No. 628, June 15 [12], 5 p.m.,2 though he was quite unaware of this other statement. He says question of direct military aid from Allies has been frequently discussed in Siberian cooperative circles and he considers [Page 211] the views which he expresses as authoritative. A confidential invitation to the Allies to intervene has, however, heretofore been considered a matter for the future. Now that the new Siberian government, which has the hearty support of the Cooperatives, must be prepared to fight not only upon the Soviets but Germany, which is directing German war prisoners against the Czecho-Slovaks, he does not hesitate, although without stated authority to do so, to invite on behalf of the Siberian Union of Cooperatives immediate Allied intervention in Siberia, on the clear understanding that the greater portion of the troops will be Japanese, especially before troops to land America will guarantee [integrity] of Siberian [territory] with Japan against possible Japanese aggression.