Amsterdam Bureau of the Communist International
The Amsterdam Bureau of the Communist International was an outpost of the Communist International established by the Executive [Committee of the Communist International] in September 1919. At the same time the ECCI also set up the Scandinavian Bureau in Stockholm, the Southern Bureau in Kiev, the Vienna Bureau, the Balkan Bureau and the Western [Europe Secretariat of the Comintern|Western Europe Secretariat]. Sebald Rutgers was appointed secretary and dispatched from Moscow 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.