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a —~eF oe foun EDGAR Hooter ; : Cc” 287 Mr .\ Tolson oimecron ou aL . E. A. Tamm- ~ CONF! NT r. Clegg ‘Federal Bureau of Investigation Mr. Coffey____. " * Mr. Glavio, Vnited States Department of Justis ue Ladd. Qe ge i ee me sank as. ORTia@hole SHASHIUNIGION, BW. pF tf : p Ee 1 mr. Nieabolse. uw iN 4¢/Mr. Rosen April 28, 1944)’ Pa ays Mr. Tracy Clase Mr. Acets - a Mr. Carson, i CORTSNED Declassify i? ur Harbo £). EET SHEE ary 0, hate: f ee: Ww Me Mumford___ i es ee OTHERWISE Auuae ERE: “Basque” Organi zation Starke ee ; latin American Matera’ at i moro Declassify on: CADR 2G7¥GK. ease Reference is made to my memorandum of March 14, 1944, ree Mies Beahm___ . Llecting the yesults of an interview by Special Agent Jerome Doyle Miss Gandy. with Antoni » Secretary to the President of the Basque Govern ment in exile “in New York City. Irale_outlined the Basque Organisation presently in latin America and indicated a desire to work there exclusively with the Bureau, Irala offered to make the necessary ‘arrangements, and you will recall that Doyle was instructed to have these arrangements made in order that the Legal Attaches could y the Basque Intelligence Service in latin America as a source, . \¢ DETATLS accuse OE re ON....- Oo 3 or) uy K By letter fApril 18, 1944, Doyle reported a further interview with Antonio Irala, There Were ‘Becured from Irala letters signed by Fresident Agvirre of the Basque Delegation, directed to the Basque “representatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; 1 lima, Peruj and Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. The principal B Basque representative in Venezuela is presently in New York, and it is proposed | that he return via Crba and Colombia in order to properly instruct the ereates. there With reference to coopera ti on with the Tegal Attache. kr, Irala fur- orinste sed that a representative from New York proceed to Mexico in order to effe er jtaison between the Burean and the Basques in Mexico City. Ihe work 4 _, Of the Basques for the Legal Attache In Venezuela is a dy outstandingly suc success— ful, 2 ia Getion is necessary in that country. ssed the opinion that the legal Attache should not have any_difficzlty TRO ICTORY| sequently entirely taking over the Basoue | informants in Argentina ; Dr. Lasarte, who was sent to. Buenos Aires by the Basques to direct their or- ganisation, also is charged hate 3 the pe aly oy fese eee amt gar zation -_ PAY ro ae = copies fof RTO TION PONIES reTROYED - _INGWHR 1B NOV 2 1981 EE eee “i