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CONFIPENTIAL of our Organization. To judge with a feeling of impati or with a commercial view requiring results immediately on payment, it is possible to be dissatisfied. Judging with profound visiog, I do not believe there is reason for dis- satisfaction. ¥ This does not prevent our acknowledging thet we have not attained all the objectives pointed out in the preliminary instructions for this section, but the fact is that until a short time ago it was not possible to make the trip to Chile ard the management of the S.V. (Basque Organization) in that country is still pending and now we are beginning to consider the question of the S.V. (Basque Organization) in Bolivia. In this situation is it possible to aw definite conclusions and to have means , of activity left? ¥ In the enclosed statement it is acknowledged that up to the present the attempts to form ea special Gelicien section end a section for Communism have been failures. But is it not interesting to try to form a complementary service based on the Galician leaders? Isn*tt the attempt worth while? Should we be. discouraged because the results are slow in coming? It is conceded that the section concerning Communism has not attained .. its object, nevertheless one of our agents has succeeded in entering the organization of the P.C. and there ise close surveil- lance of its members here and en route to Spain. & On our part there is no overtrustful feeling which denies criticism and the pointing out of defects, but this defense of the activity of the S.V. (Basque Organization) is necessary as all its members have during these difficult times done their utmost by displaying the purest idealism and a spirit of sacrifice corresponding to the confidence which has been placed in them. Y , Because I believe that once the question has been brought forth for discussion I ought not to keep my opinion from being known, I say that I attribute what has happened to @ lack of trust and understanding. The economic factor cannot worry our friends for whom I am certain that it is something really insignificant in the volume of their budget. Perhaps it is difficult for them to get accustomed, on account of their | professional habits, to dealing not with agents but with a - “modest service, as modest as you will, but which is not 4 group ‘of individuals, agents of theirs, but rather the §.I, (Intelligence Service) of a patriotic organization which is working in the belief of serving the common Cause of Liberty, and at the same time its own patriotio Cause. So long as there is no understandi -3- , Sons ETE She ge HS i re a a - ~ ~