The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-09
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(Counterespfonare at the. stavka.l


To the Commission on Combating the Coun-
ter-Reyoution: Commander in chief Krilenko
has requested the counterespionage at the staff
to inform you that 1t is necessary to order the
following persons to the Roumanian front i'm
mediately: From Petrograd, Commissar Kuh
Socialist Rakovsky, Sailor Guleshin and from
the front the chief Of the Red Guard Durasow
These persons should be supplied with literature
and with financial resources for agitation. To
them Is committed the task Of taking all meas
ures for the deposing of the Roumanan king
and the removal Of counter revolutionary Rou-
manian officers-Dtrector Of Counteresplonase
Feierabend; Secretary n. DracheV.
Note.-This marks the beginning Of large
scale work to disorganize the Roumanian army.
That in it's early winter phases it advanced dis
appointingly to Germany is evidenced by venge
full steps taken later by Gen. Hoffman and
Trotsky from Brest-Ltvosk, when in the middle
Of January, Trotsky at the request of Gen.
Hoffman, ordered the arrest in Petrograd OF
athe Roumanian minister Diamandi. The con-
tents of this letter written by Joffe were tele-
graphed to Washington in February and photo
graphic copy Of letter forwarded
At about the same time the Roumanian public
gold reserves in custody within the kremln
walls at Moscow were seized by the Russian
Government. Diamandi was released from ar
rest at the demand Of the united diplomatic
delegations Of Petrograd, but his humiliations
continued and on January %, he was ordered
from Petrograd, being given less than 10 hours
to prepare for the departure Of a party that
contained many women and children. Ambas-
sador Francis sought in vain Of Zalklnd, VINO
was acting Foreign Minister in the absence
OF Trotsky again at Brest for an extension OF
the time of departures. The Roumanian party
was thrown pell-mell on a train at midnight. IT
was delayed in Finland one excuse and an
other, not Immediately apparent, but in three
weeks the minister, leaving behind a large part
of his people, was allowed to proceed to Torneo.
BY ,h,od luck he reached there the day after
the Red Guard lost TOrneo to the White Guard:
That day saved his life, for on the person OF
Svetlitzsky, a Russian cOmmissar who 1olned
him in mid Finland and accompanied MIN TO
Torneo, was found an Order to T1moteyeff the
commissar at Torneo, to shoot him. Svetlltz-
sky was shot instead. When | passed through
Torneo the control officer talked frankly about
the details, expressing the opinion that Ehe
shooting might have been mistake. as 1t was
not shown that SvetlitZsky was aware OF the
contents Of the letter. SvetliHsky, however
was an important person in Petrograd, close 10
Trotsky. Our American party brought Guran-
CISCO the first secretary Of the Roumanian del
egaton out of Finland through the lines with US.
He had been in Red Finland seven weeks. Be
hind us at Bjorneburg left several families
of Roumanians who had departed from Petro-
grad with the minister. We would have llked
tn have brought them through the lines or the
two armies but our venture was too desperate
to hermit unauthorized additions to the party
The marginal notation on this letter is E%e-
calte" initiated "ch,' the sign manual or Chch-
erin the returned exile from England, at that
time Assistant Minister Of Foreign Affairs now
Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
Have photograph of letter.
CTo be continued)