800.01B11 Registration/9–949
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of the Soviet Union ( Panyushkin )
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to His Excellency the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and has the [Page 761] honor to refer to the United States Statute entitled “The Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as Amended”, which may be found in Title 22, U.S. Code, Section 611–621. It has been brought to the attention of the Department of State by the Department of Justice that despite repeated requests addressed by the latter to the Amtorg Trading Corporation, Inc., of New York to register with the Department of Justice, as required by the provisions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, the Amtorg Corporation has failed to comply.
In view of the fact that the Amtorg Trading Corporation is owned and controlled by the Soviet Government and staffed in part by Soviet official personnel, the Department of State believes that the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may wish to bring to the attention of the Amtorg Corporation the importance which this Government attaches to the latter’s compliance with the provisions of the above-mentioned Act.