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Buenos Aires, Argentina June 20, 1944 \ Ce ae ee - 1 | * Bag ' ; 1 J i] J Office of the Legal ntine q Ku Director, FBI EET veo 4 Declassity on: OAF 57 HOk “ To Dear sire’ : Hi soe} Reference is made to the Bureau's letter of May 3, 1944 regarding this organization and an agreement arrived at in the United States for its use by the Bureau in Latin America. In accordance with instructions therein, I contacted JOSE-MARI4 DE LASARTE, representative in Argentina, and handed to him the two letters from Basque neorents which were forwarded to + explain the new arrangement. i ‘ At the first meeting on May 26, the meaning of the letters was discussed, such as the instructions of AGUIRRE that he Basques here should continue relationship with the office of and their conduct with them df Should be @ same as in @ past, but that further investigation © in various fields was to be undertaken in cooperation with this . * office. It was specified that information which has in the past < re eres ell m shoul®” continue to be given them, cSpies also being given my «~ office, but that information of any sort which we should give the — Basques or developed by the latter at our request would not be A si “revealed to any other other office than th: These terms were understood both from the letters,and nei verastion. — Sox 58 Ld ENT —S ag DE LASARTE advised at the Perec hé"Delieve } effective work coyld be done in conjunction wit bh th s office; he ~ seemed pleased at the prospect. After a few Shp rBet 19 “ the matter he advised that he assessed the nee 8 of” the Basques in Argentina at $2,000 (U.S.currency) per mont money which “S would spend on work for this office exclusivelf and only in ~ country. He gave this, he said, as the bast e ate he coul I make at this time, although an appraisal made later after the arrangement had been working for some time might result in a different sum. DE LASARTE stated that he believed this sum would meet with AGUIRRE'S approval were he here to assess the needs of bis organization in Argentina in the light of their doing most effective work of the type contemplated. In discussing the way in which this money would be spent, he said that some woyld be sed for strengthening his organizational ties in Argentina, in this way increasing the number of people who might be used as informants by them and gaining stronger Basque allegiance, Calculated to be of assistance to us int‘intjelligence work. This organizational work has not been carried on to the ¢ a ron . a C Ces Ann ame 1 elon