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nestor ft i CODABENTIAL a oaeee ee TT While this office feels that all the contacts of the Basque Orgsnization presently in hotels should be used, it is | not believed practical to put in effect such an elaborate _ Scheme as set out in the Basque proposals, the effect and use of which is entirely problematical and could be considered as “ . of our dn, to increase the business. of a. Barn Hotel-owmer, 85. #5, in on J . _ and. of use to the Bureau representatives in pl ts mie 2 Yearaeas - PRINCIPAL “onoarrzatron ah | = SU ET ae ar The duties of the greup of ten persona forming the principal intelligence committes in Caracas have been, in the past, to discuss the leads furnished them by the Bureau rep~ _resentatives and that individual on sald committee who knew _ the subject of the investigation had the duty to investigate , the same. This committes met once a week for the above pur- — pose. The past experience of this office with’ this method of ; WV procedure has st disappointing. On receipt of a lead ~ b mP by Informan he would, if he had sufficient time after e handling o S personal affairs, call a meeting of the a committee as above set out and assign the lead to one of its menvers. Two or three weeks later, this committee member . would be asked for a report. Almost invari ably he would state . that he had been so. busy with his privet ssinegs thet he had Rot, hhad.the tine t Anvestigate. me, aead. sy eS ” SNe ie * = ei” calling the matter: to nb ‘attention. or Infor- . everal times,.eventually after three to four “<> months, a report containing information of a. type that could be obtained from a city directory or from a eredit ‘report was