861.00/6552: Telegram
The Commissioner at Riga (Gade) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received March 14—1:55 a.m.]
126. Your March 10, 4 p.m. and March 10, 5 p.m.10 Passport issued by Hungarian Republic February 3, 1919, good for Eastern European countries with the addition Germany apparently forged. It is uncertain who was to use credentials issued to Anderson introducing him to American Communists and found on Muller and signed by Berzine-Winter. Latvian Intelligence Office believes Anderson in Moscow and due here shortly to visit Riga, family en route to America. I am watching matter solicitously. Anderson’s wife has applied for vise to proceed Canada. Muller and companion were captured upon crossing Latvian–Bolsheviki lines, vicinity Marienhausen and shot after a court martial. Owing to my confidential relations with secret and military intelligence services, documents found on Muller were given to me for inspection. They were unquestionably authentic and after copying had to be returned to Latvian authorities, copies being sent to Washington. No mention in documents of Martens or other Bolsheviki agents in the United States. Berzine-Winter is the secretary of the permanent bureau of the Communist International in Moscow. He was Assistant Commissar of Education in Riga when city occupied by Bolsheviki and is prolific newspaper correspondent under the name of Siemelis, which freely translated into German is Winter. I do not believe he occupies any further official position. Original documents, excepting passport and films, typewritten on cloth or tissue paper. Films, when photographed and enlarged, merely certain printed extract from acts of Executive Committee, Communist International, signed Zinoviev, Danish-Russian Red Cross, Baltic office, dated Riga, are considered forgeries, this office having been previously closed by police. I am forwarding quotations en clair.
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