The Amsterdam Bureau of the Communist International was an outpost of the Communist International established by the

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(ECCI) in September 1919. At the same time the ECCI also set up the Scandinavian Bureau in

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, the Southern Bureau in

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, the Vienna Bureau, the Balkan Bureau and the

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was appointed secretary and dispatched from

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with a number of precious stones whose value accounted for the bulk of the twenty million roubles allocated by the ECCI to finance the bureau.

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Comintern Organizations established in 1919 {{DEFAULTSORT:Amsterdam Bureau of the Comintern