Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/4276: Telegram

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

Riga, June 29, 1940—noon.
[Received June 29—10:28 a.m.]

168. I am very confidentially informed by a high dignitary of the Catholic Church that general mobilization will be ordered in Latvia on July 1st. He states that there is much concern in responsible Latvian circles that this measure is the prelude to a Soviet-German conflict. It also may mean the dispersal of a large part of the male population of Latvia throughout Russia under the pretense of training with modern military equipment.

Repeated to Berlin and Moscow.

Wiley