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CARACAS, ‘VENEZUELA, July 19, 1944 BASQUE ORGANIZATION aa “RE: soe ‘Reference is made to a letter from this offi : to the Bureau dated June 3, 1944, entitled as abovoy. sorting forth the proposed plan of cooperation between the Basques wee and the Bureau representatives in Venezuela, waid Plan» having worst been submitted by the Basque organization . wr . ~ This is to advise that since the date of the sud- x mission of the aforementioned plany the Basque organization : c has performed fewer and fewer services for the Legal At- . tache'’s office, During the various contacts with this group this lackadaisical attitude has become increasingly evi _ and apparently is based on two premises, to wit; first, the . \.War 18 won and there is no longer any Decessity® for them to~ work and second, (and apparently the real reason) the Basque. leaders state that all the members of the Basque organiza. tion work eight hours per day in their private or OEY p Shonal jobs and therefore these members do not care to.- ™ perform investigative services at night or “CY off gia is PECORDED OV 14 Informant has recent declin = ab ree Basaue intel. genes services "eo cover AG for this ce, statin; je leads were ¢ £ C) has’also stated that the investigative w. wife. Bipe te) ay for this office is being “bela in abeyance 1 the acts on the plan rot ret ae, in the reference letter ‘so informing a reprgs a tee yet th this geion ote Beeque made it clear intention of rganization to have &t ie, nivegtteg work ‘performed ‘ey the two full time. Anvé: op} $3 sted in ‘the aforementioned lan, ‘whos of money ae pore yl W errie 1S Ue EXCEPT WHER OTHERWISE |