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att, Director, FBI . April 23, 1943 , Upon his arrival in the United States, CESPEDES is purported to have stated that he had the material for a book describing the working conditions of the Bolivian miners. Vice President Wallace is then supposed to have gotten the motion picture concern Radio-Keith-Orpheum to pay CESPEDES $600 a month, and the Board of Economic Warfare has subsequently reimbursed RKO for these payments. CESPEDES was sent to Bolivia by Vice President Wallace prior to the Vice President's trip to Latin America and CESPEDES is presently in Bolivia. LENAREZ then stated that these persons around Vice President Wallace convinced him that the working conditions in the mines of Bolivia were unbearable and something should be done to reform these conditions. LENAREZ states that money was obtained by these individuals from the Board of Economic Warfare's confidential fund and was furnished the Communist agitators in Bolivia who used the fund to precipitate the recent labor trouble in the tin mines of Bolivia. Thereafter, the Bolivian Government, knowing the identities and the personality of the individuals involved in these labor disputes, attempted to have them cease their campaign of pre- | venting the workers from entering the mines. When persuasive methods did not succeed, the Bolivian Army used forceful methods which brought about the death of thirty of the agitators and the explusion from Bolivia of fourteen leaders. Mr. LENAREZ states that none of the persons involved in this agitation were regular workers in the tin mines but were all followers of Communi sm. Thereafter, a commission was sent by the United States Government to Bolivia to study the conditions in that country. This commission was sponsored by the BEW and upon its arrival in Bolivia, immediately made known that its only interests were the conditions surrounding the labor trouble at the tin mines. The commission was advised by the tin workers that their laboring conditions were ideal and that they made more for their money than any of the tin mine workers of Wyoming or the coal miners of Pennsylvania or West Virginia. In addition, they stated that they had good living quarters and all necessary facilities. The tin miners were all reported by Senor LENAREZ to have stated to this commission that there was no strike in the mines, but that there was only an attempt on the part of agitators to prevent the workers from entering the mines. When the fact that Vice President Wallace was going to make a trip to Latin America became known to the PATINO interests, they immediately extended an invitation to him to stay at least two days at the Patino mines so that he could see for himself the living conditions and the attitude of the workers. He accepted this invitation and it was the intention of the PATINOs to bring motion picture cameramen from Buenos Aires, Argentina to take pictures of Wallace talking with the Bolivian tin miners. However,