Keywords: Zimmermann Telegram as Received by the German Ambassador to Mexico - NARA - 302025.tif Scope and content This telegram was sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the President of Mexico proposing a military alliance against the United States In return for Mexican support in the war Germany would help Mexico regain New Mexico Texas and Arizona from the United States The British intercepted the secret message deciphered it and turned it over to the U S Government General notes 302025 Local identifier Department of State Office of the Secretary 09/1789 - Archives II Reference Section Civilian Textual Archives Services Division NWCT2RC National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1917-01-19 Record group Record Group 59 General Records of the Department of State 1763 - 2002 Record group ARC 388 Central Decimal Files compiled 1910 - 1963 Series ARC 302021 File unit 862 20212 / 57 through 862 20212 / 311 File unit ARC 594884 Variant control numbers Agency-Assigned Identifier 862 20212/82A 862 20212/82A 862 20212/82A 862 20212/82A<br /> This is full decimal and serial citation for this item <br /> NAIL Control Number NWCTC-59-INV15E205-86220212 82A <br /> Other Identifier 03405<br /> This is the NARA Internal Exhibit Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit <br /> Other Identifier 1081 0003<br /> The is the exhibit number for the Over There exhibit which ran from April 1989 through October 1989 in the Herbert Hoover Library West Branch Iowa <br /> Other Identifier 624 0001<br /> This is the exhibit number for the American Originals exhibit which ran from December 1995 through March 1996 in the National Archives Rotunda Washington DC <br /> Search Identifier siLearning Center<br /> Search Identifier siNational History Standard Era 7 yes Other versions <gallery> File Zimmermann_Telegram_as_Received_by_the_German_Ambassador_to_Mexico_-_NARA_-_302025 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Zimmermann Telegram NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs |