CHANGING ROLE SEEN FOR LATIN ALLIANCE'S COMMITEE OF NINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100030021-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 20, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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,ND FINES HERALD APR 2 0 1964
CPYRGHT By Lewis H. Diuguid
Staff Reporter
olitical tasks.
Accordingly, new appointees
the $20,000-d year positions
i the Committee of Nine are
pected to be more techni-
cally than politically oriented.
nominating c o m m i t t e e
r a w n from hemispheric
gencies Is expected to meet
ris month after resolving the
uestion of the role of CIAP
i selecting ? the new genera-
l ii
Five of the "Nine Wise Par o the reason or tne!
Men" of the Alliance fort exodus from the Committee;
Progress have left, or -soon seems to be just the lure of,
other positions, coupled, with!
the fact that the three-year
will do so. I
Among them is Raul , Saci, commitment is now over two-,
coordinator of the group morel thirds met.
formally known as the Com-;?: But the changing structure
mittee of Nine. Saez, a Chil-i of the Alliance has played its
can, was one .of many hemis=i part, according to sources
mentioned for; close to the Nine. Founders
ri
leader
h
p
e
c
s
the chairmanship of t h e of the Alliance recall a ? bit.
newly-formed Comite Inter-,, bitterly that originally the
amcr-icana do la Alianza par,,; Nine were to have been the
el Progreso. "Latinizing" agent, with a
Carlos Sanz do Santamaria strong mandate allowing them
of Colombia was given thr virtually to cut off funds from
CIAP job Formation of tht
.a committee, an attempt to, nations laggard in reforms.
"Latinize" the Alliance, is one The United States reluctant-
of many factors in the depar-'ly bought the multilateral ap-I
tore of the five Wise Men, proach, but Argentina, MexicoI
The Alliance charter signed' and Brazil figured they could,
three years ago provided for do better by dealing directly;
the panel of nine experts who with the main source of funds,'
would evalualc the national the United States. The result
plans to be submitted by the' was a compromise that.
Latin American nations as sheared off much of the Nine's
blueprints of economic and power.
social developments. Still, the Nine proved. vigor-
Opinions of the expert, ous not'only in criticizing sub-;
would largely determine the !twitted national plans but, in
amount of foreign aid the na- calling for .changes in the
tions would receive. Nine ex- !Alliance itself. The Committee
ports, some with international of Nine suggested the study
reputations, were chosen for that.resulted in formation of
three-year teLms beginning in CIAP:'
January, 1962. ?1 Gradually Argentina and
The original coordinator! Mexico have swung tov; ard'.
was Raul P rebisch. Other the position of the smaller
commitments soon forced his countries and the planners un-,
esignation. He is now head tit with CIAP, a multilateral
of the . U.N. Conference on direction of the Alliance may
Trade and Development in be possible. Advocates of this
Geneva. Saez, Prebisch's re- approach, including the Ni',,
placement, will leave by July i:sry the Latins.may be sterner
on of Wise Men.
Those leaving besides Sacz
rclude:
O Manuel Noriega Morales,
]ready returned to his native
xuatemala to head a technical
astitute. No is an economist
ho has u4?orked closely with
Morales Perloff
. .,leaving Alliance
ntegration.
liarvey S. Perloff, author
and educator in the field of
economic planning and the
my U.S. national among the
inc. He has agreed to serve
ut his term ending Dec. 31
f needed before returning to
he job lie left two years ago,
rogram director for the pri-
ate research foundation here,
resources for the Future.
9 Jorge Grieve, an engineer
ho was a Peruvian delegate
o the Punta del Este confer-
nee that set up the Alliance.
Hernando Agudelo Villa,
olumbian lawyer and ?econo-
ist who like many of the
Tine has also held important
political appointments,
to return to the directorship !'enforcers ? of reform among]
of Chile's big government-1 themselves than the United
owned electrical industry. States could be.
I But even if this power po-
(tential is realized it will rest
in CIAP, with the Nine ex-
pected to evolve into a techni-
Ical adjunct.
I CIAP, with the seven mom-
l~crs, under Sanz' de Santa-i
b.-.Y `L' . the Alliance's considerable
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maining is P l s:Cir',-.
Rodan,. a Del: :. citizen and
author. He ::'H?
no of the Nine
holds another job simultane-
ously, as professor of econom-
cs at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Other memebrs are Brazil- .
an Romulo Almcida,
Argdn-
I
ine Ernesto Malaccorto and
_uban Felipe Pazos, all eeon-
)mists and all as far as is II
known planning to stay at
east through Dec. 31'
Author Perloff-asked jibe
hought the Alliance aug-I
rented by still another com-'
nittee, could achieve the lofty
goals of planned economic
.rowth-posed several condi-
,ions based on the intent of,
he participants and said, "At
cast now it has a chance," He
doled that he intends to do a
of of writing about his Inter-
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