INVOKING MONROE DOCTRINE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400470002-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
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Approved For Release 2000/08/27.: CIA-RDP
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Invoking Monroe Doctrine the twentieth century the pp?o-'
t- litical )content of Monroe's Doctrine
4as been scrapped in favor of & mil-
We no $o, it is Noted, to Bar, Not r.y_atrateglc concept advantageous
Permit, Revolutionary Change to the United States. One way Wso
inL out that there was a CO
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' da11 understood, to the orizinal Doc-
areae: the n
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of the background of the Monroe ;out of European affairs. But over,
Doctrine and its significance total, last 50 years the Unit d`BtatEa.
'I Ing It as an inspired revelation
1823 and valid for all time.
In 1823 the United States was
viewed with much the same sus-
picion by the orthodox monarchies
I of Europe as today the Soviet Union
I ments of the West. The Monroe
Doctrine came into being as a direct
sought to combine the' monarchs or
everywhere.
in 1822 by persuading the Bourbon
regime of Louts XVIII to , sand
troops to Spain to shore Up the tot-
tering throne of Ferdinand VII. It
then planned to enlarge operations
by putting down the revolts in
Ferdinand's American colonies.
dent Monroe, backed by Prime Min-
Ister George Canning of England
and the British fleet, declared
"Hands Off America."
U. S. Quarantine
At thn present time the Doctrine
1s invoked as a means of preventing
revolutionary change, rather than
allowing It to develop. The Castro
regime, whatever Its faults, is a
put Into quarantine by the United
States; an invasion has been mount-
ed against it by the C.I.A.; and rep-
resentatives of so-called "Free
the territory and territorial waters
Castro has called in the Soviet
4 Union. He may have been unwise
to do this, but is not Castro essen-
premise of t
.Monroe Doctrinef`in
carrying
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has intervened drastically in' Europe
d today is charged with pressrv-
ig the status quo through its rock-
et and missile bases on the frontiers
of the Soviet Union.
. There may well be adventurers
around Castro ready to chance
anything to get into power aad W
stay there. But are not such *men
encouraged by the United States
Government's Cuban policy? `Spree'
the Bay of Pigs fiasco, what tally
bas been omitted in dealing with,
'Cuba? Today, men as unscrupu
lous as 'any around Castro, posing
jls ', a government-in-exile, ace 91-
wed to operate out of Miami IutdE
Caribbean bases to bombard netitral;
-shipping in Cuban waters and rest-`
&ntial districts on the island.
Cubans' Rights
The first order of business mighti
well be to cease talking about the
Monroe Doctrine in a rigid legalistic'
sense and as If the Cubans had no=
rights abroad except those rights
permitted to them by the United'
States and the Marine Corps.
The United States Government;
should clamp down on the Cuban,
refugees and their wealthy support-
,ers in Miami Beach, take away their
guns and their motor ships. A:
meeting of the O.A.S. should be
convened, with Cuban representa-
tives, at which Cuba's point of view
mild be aired. FRANCIS LEARY.
tially trying to preserve the original
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