V. I.

Lenin

733

To:   G. V. CHICHERIN [1]

Comrade Chicherin, An official Note must certainly be sent on this and all
similar cases.

Circularise all representatives of the R.S.F.S.R. abroad
to this effect.

Lenin

25/X.

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Notes:
[1]
Written in connection with a secret agreement between the
bourgeois Latvian Government and agents of Wrangel for a joint
attack against Soviet Russia. On September 26, 1920, when Count
von Palen, a well-known agent of Wrangel’s, was crossing the
German frontier, letters were taken from him addressed to
Savinkov, Wrangel’s agent in Warsaw. These letters reported that a
secret meeting had taken place in Riga between a representative
of Savinkov and representatives of the Latvian Government and
Supreme Command of the Latvian army, at which agreement was
reached on joint action with Wrangel aimed at overthrowing the
Soviet Government and re-establishing a single indivisible
Russia, in return for which Wrangel promised independence for
Poland and Latvia. The confiscated letters also reported that
soldiers for Wrangel’s army were being recruited in Latvia, that a
recruiting office receiving financial support from Savinkov was
operating almost openly in Riga and transporting soldiers on
Latvian steamships.