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100-1630 Baltimore * — connected with it, wore arrested for having in their flerct Governmnt documents LID This informant was unable to furnish information as to the identity cf any of LATTIUORE's associnte In stated tinat he is well acquainted with era) Pit Oke has been branded a Communist on occasion, and that he can well understand why. He then mentioned that around 194] LATTIUORE was appointcd personal political aide to CHIANG KAI-SHEK; that LATTIUORE was not in favor of any United states aid to the Chincso iationalist Government; that LATTL.OWE is of the firm oninion that the-Nationalist Governmont in China is corrupt, incfficient, and “rotten to the core." The informnt belicves, thercforc, that LATTI-ORE's stand along this line is one of the reasons he has been branded a Communist. b7D The informant sdded that following the return from China of Gencoral TARSHALL, he submjtted a report in which :4ARSHALL'’s views relative te China ecincided with these of LATTTO ONE; that their views were se much alike that the ;:ARSNALL report could wel] have been written by LATTIUORE, although the two men do not kmow cach other. In any event, according to the informant, the TLAARSHALL report pleased LATTI Qik, who fclt that the position he had takon all along concerning CHLANG KAI-SHOK and the Nationalist Governient had beon justified. The informent related LATTE O25 n Communist or 1 It is slso the vicw of the informan : LATTYT.ORo has becn absolutely right in his vi.ws on China, and added that the i.ARSHALL renort and the subsequont withdrawal of United States aid to the Nationalist Government in China ..ro moments of triumph for LATTE Ou, b7D The informant also oxpressed the vicw that LATTIVOR? mey have boon trandcd a Communist, by some, b-cnuso of his mumbpcrship in the Institute of ~ 14 -