Office of the Historian

760p.6111/70: Telegram

The Minister in Latvia (Wiley) to the Secretary of State

Riga, October 28, 1939—noon.
[Received October 28—8:35 a.m.]

292. Legation’s 280, October 24, 3 p.m. From considerable information received by the Military Attaché from a Latvian railway official it appears that Soviet troops will probably start crossing into Latvia tomorrow at Zilupe and Indra. Riga trains expected at each station every other day over 10–day period. Thirty thousand troops to be distributed, Libau and Windau districts, and additional troops at Priekule, Auce, Vainode and Ezere. Mechanized division expected to be additional. Please inform War Department.

Wiley