WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670091-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: July 11, 1953
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT 11.1e7V1,7 VC-VDT(' Aill-DPrIP ? 11 11 1 1 iCir?.?
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By Drew Pearson
(The author of this column ts given the
;widest latitude. Bis views do not neces-
fearily reflect those of the Mirror.)
IiWrASHINGTON, July' 10?
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Unrest in Ecuador has ,
i
i shown a m a r k e d upturn I
I among the laboring class and;
i other low-paid groups, follow- '
'ing a ? presidential decree
granting salary increases to
all workers except those earn- i
Jng 500 ?sucres ($28.50) Ter when President Eisenhower sent':
. _. ...
month or less. . his special assistant ? on Security ?
Council matters, Robert Cutler, .
i
' This c u r i o u s discrimination. to Capitol Hill for a confidential '
:leaves- nearly half the country's ; briefing. Within the limits of se: '
I employed citizens with unchanged : curity, this column can report .;
} wages?at a time when living. : - ' --1
rcosts are mounting at an aver- ? what he told them.
}age rate of 4 percent monthly. :, ? Minnesota's. GOP Senator .Ed .
1
} A United Nations survey, re-. .Thye started it off by asking:..
}leased last year, gave $40 as the ' "What is the nature of the ques...'
I mean annual income per capita tions. that you study?"
i for Ecuadorians. This is the low-,.,' "One question that the council
test in the Western Hemisphere7-?,..has been 0-iving- a great deal of'
iPresident Velasco Ibarra's newi'. attention te this- Winter," Cutler '
i decree, by passing over some!. replied, "has been the basic over- :
}600,000 farm and factory work.'; all policy of the. United States
ers at the bottom of the paY: toward the wars in French Indo-;
',..seale,..will have little or no effect'. China and Korea, revieiving. the !
.;on that figure. - 1 basic policy, seeing- to what ex- .1
..
? t? Meanwhile, conflict . am on .g.? tent it should be modified.
tuiscordant elements within the "We held a great many hear-
rashi of political rumors through- 1
} administration has brought on a
, zags, had a great many council :
', i
meetings and eventually we me- 1
;lout ? the Republic. These have. 1 ommerled to the council, and it i
}made the government so jittery!. was
that mounted patrols of national ? approved in May, a new
; basic policy paper which repro-
'evidence after dark; armed with
qoolice are now everywhere in. sents striking changes from what
; had previously been in.effect."
- :submachine guns.
There is constant talk- of a rev- The exact nature of these
changes cannot be printed with--
lutionary conspiracy, headed. by.1?, out tipping ,off the Russians.
duardo Salaiar ,Gomez, national ..? Ctitler also revealed that. the-
hairman - of the Liberal Party ;,! National !Security Council is work- ? :
And briefly a candidate. in last -ing on nine' coordinated security
Oear's.presidential campaign. (He programs, and wt into ? detail '1
`ropped out two months before about internal port security.
-,:ihe election.) ' . ? 1
Competent observers are "There is an internal security 4
greatest impor-
!?;
ogreed that these reports' have no r.problem. of the .e i
kb 1 tanc to the United in fact. Rather, they re- d States in its
continental defense, that involves. 1
:fleet the state of uncertainty and . 10 or 11 different departments I
discontent prevailing today in the ?
f: .and agencies Of the Federal goy,' i
little South American republic eminent," he stated. "If we are
which, during U. S.-educated Gab o ,
:
Plaza's term -as chief executive going to develop a program with ,. ..
'enjoyed the only four years of. reference to the security of our
stable, democratic government n.i j
harbors, we must receive at the
.: ?
! i
its otherwise turbulent history. .! planning board level studies for '
.. the different departments .and
Supercabinet,Agency know Ion 'ge"cies."
MOST PEOPLE don't know !. "You just could not rely on the
,
.-"-? much about the ultra secret }:. Coast Guard alone?" asked Sena-
tor !Carl Hayden, Arizona Demo-
'National Security Council. How: '. .. ,,,_
(X?t..
Demo-
ever, it operates as 'a sort of su-;,. . ?
Cutler replied that it required
;per-cabinet dealing with defense .!
problems, and since ? President
an over-all, integrated program.
-.
-Eisenhower's inauguration, it has
Cutler stressed that the. Pres- . ?
.
handed down 130 basic deeisions? ident considers the security coun-
including "striking changes"i!
? . cil meetings so important that he, .
American policy toward the war ;' personally, has presided over
iin Korea and Indo-China. ,Before a,. every session.
- end of the year it expects to ?WCppyrIght, 1003, by Bell Syridicate, Inc.) A.
-,v-i-
1 ; , the..L?.=.? ?
} reach a record 300 .decisions that'
will lead this nation either to 1
'peace or war.
Recently the Senate Appropria-.'
tions Committee was given an of- ;
ficial backstage peek. at the na- '
'tion's most porf.t.11.,kt.L.'ei}-. __ _ _ _., ___
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/14: CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670091-0