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wee ere EXCEPT ¥P 2o7V6E Classified bie Dear Sir: Declassify on: OADRS- /<— Reference is made to your letter of May 5, 1944, ‘oy 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 extle in New York City to have its representatives » in Latin America work exclusively as informants for the Bureau. ~ 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 opinion as to the usefulness of the organization as ingormgnte. WY Smp , of his own volition, came to my 8 office. He stated that he had been out of Bogota on a trip to * Caracas, Venezuela between May 28th and June 8th. He advised ( de after he had receiv a er from Immediately after the receipt of the above ins of at 3 were made to contact who had’ qritten him asking that he trave aracas to dis¢e matters regarding the Basque Intelligence set-up in Colombia said that upon receipt of the above letter from e wired to Mre IRALA in New York, req ort zat: ‘or the trip. IRALA replied that he Gxcuch Millia travel to Caracas as #00n as possible in order to confer with n matters which , had been discussed with the latter when he was, ew York durin 1 end May, 1944. - Apri id REQORDED & INDEXED atated that while in VenezuéTa hé hadfbeen ibformed é@ program being followed by the Basque De ef 50. BE Barer’ COPTES DESTROYED os % Declassify