811.20261/20: Telegram
The Minister in Sweden ( Morris ) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received February 22, 12:35 p.m.]
3652. I am informed by Danish Red Cross that American citizen named Kalamatiano, who was sentenced to death in Russia for espionage, has had sentence commuted to imprisonment and is at present detained at the Kremlin in Moscow. In this connection the Foreign Office has just delivered me telegram addressed to me by Gruzenberg, formerly Bolshevik financial representative in Norway, who is now in Petrograd, stating that Kalamatiano’s sentence for espionage had not been executed. This telegram from Gruzenberg was transmitted by wireless from Moscow to Berlin, thence to the German Legation in Stockholm, which delivered it to the Foreign Office.