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¢ ALL TBPORFATIO? comtalM@i® = Orrice of the Legal Attache Al BS UNCLASSTFR os Aires, Argentina Pere KyENS SHORE / November 23, Suk] PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL Classified by james, |” g DIPLOMATIC ATR QOURTER POUCH — / Declassify on: 30? Yb - Director, FBI a ne: basque ORGANIZATION IN ARGENTINA , Administrative Dear Sir: ‘ Shortly after receipt of the Bureau's radiogram tter of reduction of the amount was discussed with cain “asarte, local head of the organization. He was told that Pa reduction of $500 per month was going to be made, bringing the ~s Monthly amount down to $1,500. Although he remonstrated that : this amount is insufficient for his organization, he was told/' that the cut would be placed in effect beginning with the fivét payment in November, made on the 8th. It now appears that z re De Lasarte did not understand this and thought that the re- duction had been postponed indefinitely. He does not deny that he was told the reduction would go into ef was disoge, ., Whenever it has been discussed since, the Hag £ that the reduction is being made in an effart total amount paid them equal approximately the value of the infor mation received from them plus the value of €he information that we can reasonably expect to receiva-from them in the future. They have been told that no strict evaluation bas been placed on each paragraph of written information they -have submitted us, but that an overall estimate is being made and that the amount to be paid them must correspond to this estimate. They have not been told that this cut of $500 per month is the only reduction to be made nor hag the atter of further reductions been discyssged with them. * p ATT) vu ONE: 1Ap ss oe noe 7) a: Dry — MOG [te