DeWitt Clinton Poole

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DeWitt Clinton Poole (October 28, 1885

Revolutionary Russia
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1918 Ambassadors plot to assassinate Lenin

See also: Sidney Reilly

Poole arrived in

Archangelsk.[3] He was "active in implementing U.S. policy, negotiating with the Bolshevik authorities, and supervising American intelligence operations that gathered information about conditions throughout Russia, especially monitoring anti-Bolshevik elements and areas of German influence."[3]

Historian

red terror
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U.S. Secretary of state Robert Lansing allegedly initiated the plot[4] after Lenin seized power in October 1917 and removed Russia from World War I, as part of a secret deal the Bolsheviks had struck with Germany. President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy was publicly opposed to interference, but he told Lansing the Moscow coup had his "entire approval".[4]

In addition to instigating an attempted

Polar Bear Expedition under British Command by General Edmund Ironside in Operation Archangel, part of the North Russia intervention, an Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. General Jean Lavergne, chief of the French military mission to Russia was aided by Consul General fr:Joseph-Fernand Grenard, who attempted to recruit resistance armies to march on Bolshevik Moscow, and dispatched agents across Russia.[5]

After the invasion failed, inquires were met with "evasive avoidance" in America. President

Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 indirectly denied the matter in claiming a "happy tradition of friendship for more than a century". President Ronald Reagan again denied it in the 80's in a public address to the Russian people, stating "our governments have had serious differences, but our sons and daughters have never fought each other in a war."[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Rothe 1950, p. 461.
  2. ^ The New York Times 1952, p. 27.
  3. ^ a b Lees & Rodner 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Carr 2020, p. vii, preface.
  5. ^ Carr 2020, p. viii, preface.
  6. ^ Carr 2020, p. ix, preface.

Bibliography

  • ISBN 978-1-64313-317-1
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  • "DeWitt Poole Dies; Retired Diplomat". The New York Times. September 4, 1952. p. 27. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  • Lees, Lorraine M.; Rodner, William S., eds. (2014). An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia: DeWitt Clinton Poole. History Faculty Bookshelf. Vol. 17. University of Wisconsin Press.
    ISBN 9780299302245
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  • Rothe, Anna, ed. (1950). Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1950. H. W. Wilson Company.

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