PAPERS SPARKED CARACAS REVOLT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670022-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: January 29, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Llretr Pearson
~~olt that upset dic? jalla with political prisoners
~t,, ~~rez .iimenrz of ~'ene- and operated f.nrture rooms
'i+ Has inspired in large that were the scandal of the
ua+~ ~"' the newspapers and western hemisphere.
+'d ~~~? news-
;+ ~ F r r report- ~~ ~. '! Dulles Lauded Nation
the Secretary rOf ~ State tA.ri~
+ ssi, columnist ~ the ~er~ Jimenes regl~ ~~.i
,fur El vacional
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another revolt ~ ; nonce trommlttee, Marvels 23.i
i e a rl e r , was PearNg ~ ]Y53
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et laid:
wiled some time age. He wend "Vencsuela is a conet~7r thatl
~rtto jail weighing 200 pouads,'has adopted the kind of p8L-~
came out a thin mLp. ~ciea which we think the other,
]1 guellsOtcrof Silva, aVenezue-;shouldleadopt 5 namelA~hiea
lanpoet, who has built up ane'have adopted the kindrQi poll
of the lives+ news staQa in the~cles which provide in Verve-
w e s t e r n hemisphere. I.ike~zuela ~ climate that is attrac-
:~merican editors and publish-;five to foreign cspltal to collie
rrs whee the 13 cdlonles re-; in." ll ;;,,
~elan.newamten had more to!1955,~John Forte! wasart~elli t
do with the downfall of Perez;the Senate Foreign Relations
tactonez than any other singleiCommittee that the key to the
.iLnited States role in western
Tn the lead also Bras ihe~civilization a?as its "dedica?
C'atttollc publication, La Re- lion to human liberty sad dig-
iit%ion, with a small circulation nit3'?"
but plenty of courage. It was
the first to brave the dlctatbr.'BO? and r1rrON' War
f ublisher Qtero, though pro-~ '~+'o California Democrats,
American, iv not permitted to:Reps. Chet Holifteld and JohA
enter the United States be-'?ttoss, were musing outsld!
cause of the ~1cCarran Act. lie,the Nouse of Representatives
admits that he was once alabbut the bow and arrow ~?
member of the Communist;'vented by a cientist durittg
Party 14orld War I~ and ataU leapt
Returning from Faris on A1r~under secrecy wraps by the
France, he had sortie time toiPentagon 13 yearn later.
k;ll !n Ne1v York and, for aomel "You know," opined Moss,
reason, ).t, S. immigration au- "it might not be ouch a .bad
thoritiea let him go into Man? idea to keep that bow and ar-
hattan. Afterward Otero re-'row secret. After the next
~ arked: k?ar is fought u?ittr nuclear '
' i way surprised at your~hOmbs, bows and arrowi may
~. med immigration people. be all we have left to fight
The}' slipped up. They let me with."
^c. into Kew York where I "That's right," agreed Aoll-
dropped in at St. Patrick'a~fleld. "In fact, It might even ?
.Cathedral, lunched at'~he?Ititz,~be a food Idea to slap a se-
bought apresent for my wife Crecy claaallcatlon on sucks ?
at Tiffany's and never .even land stones. We might need
blew up the Brookl
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political ground ri
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was the personal behavior otl Don Ras, who rea'
-Perez Jimenez and laic men?U. S. Attorn lgntd as
around him. The Catholiclwben he ~ ~ Nebraska
church began turning agrrlnst~CUperior 0~1 ahem tsto bribe
;hem when they took adds-iSenaton to
rional wives and mistreases.;ural gas bill~is nowat the naL
'~ !~~ richer they got the more stage a comebact by lbemg.
^~~azr~i~ they were 1n kir)ringl,,l,,rt~ R,,,,,,tiurar, k,~,.* ,
,rs?ir; ~-a~.kt~q~~iiai~/>~ws?r. ~,
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