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#! ‘ : ip | LY WRORMATION CGR gr =. nogoti ReBEiM 18 UUSLESSIFED Bogota Tt i i OTHER ETE Director, PBI — ! 4 ; . tec Re: ORGANIZAPION _ So COLOMBIAN ADMINISTRATIVE B2Oo7-VoEer Classified bya D bie Dear Sir: Declassify on: OADRS- /< — | Reference is made to your letter of May 3, 1944, to at Havana, Cuba, a copy of which was furnished to the office of the Legal Attache at Bogota, concerning the desire of the Basque Government in exile in New York City to have its representatives ; fn Latin America work exclusively as informants for the Bureaue ~~ There was also transmitted with your letter a memorandum reflect- ing the results of an interview between Bureau representatives and the Basque Delegates in New York City, and another memorandum reflecting the successful use of the Basque Intelligence Service by the Legal Attache in Caracas, Venezuela» I was instructed to advise the Bureau at an early date as to the arrangements made with the local Basque representatives and also to give my; opinion as to the usefulness of the organization as ingormante. YW Immediately after the receipt of the above ins tions, @ number of atterots wera mada to contact Te a Seat Se a 686 attemptg were unsuccess =) s 4 2 » Of his own volition, came to my office. He stated that he had been out of Bogota on a trip to * Caracas, Venezuela between May 28th and June 8the He advised { de after he had received a jatter from who had' qr en m asking that he trave aracas to disc matters regarding the Basque Intelligence set-up in Colcmtic . Sinan said that upon receipt of the above letter from he wired to Mre IRALA in New York, req orizetion ror tbe trip» IRALA replied that he thought should travel to Caracas es soon as possible in order to confer with mn matters which had been discusaed with the latter when he was, ew York durin Arik end Moye teu’ REOORDED & INDEXED "64-23 1/7 —3 41. atated that while in Venezuela hé hadfheen ihformed coe oe e program being followed by the Basque Delagetign: Har py.grhere 6 ‘Ng 9/4 COPTES DESTROYED — | (ie, OT ew Neel ES \S. 50 AUG 21 G44 U.. Declassify ci: \ ~~ L. Sr er ee EE ed I i ae a PI te aa bieremaadaicaiieetemeaiie tamehet aiatane vee ne ree ge - - a pa ae I oe ta Rage et ee AR ge