DOWN WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN -- QUITE; ACCION [SOCIALIST], 4 JUN 65

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800030025-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 1, 1965
• Content Type: PAPER

DOWN WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN -- Quito`, Accion [Socialist], 4 Jun 6S
(According., to this confusing and elliptical article, Philippe
Guignabaudet, an adviser to the Ecuadoran Minister of Finance,.wrote,
a classified study critical of US-Ecuadoran economic relations, and
gave a copy of it to.a man named Flint. Flint went to Havana and
employee of the US Embassy in Paris, is'alleged to have known about
,the entire transaction.]
We are not going to say that the best thing that could have
happened to Ecuador is being the friend of the United States. However,
States is trying to sink Ecuador, that it is trying to provoke a
break with Ecuador,
tions with the United States. It is dangerous to say that the United
in the international policy of Ecuador, keeping the friendship of
the United States is healthy. We do not say that we should be a
colony of the United States; we should not be anybody's colony.
However, there are many positive aspects in US-Ecuadoran relations.
Undoubtedly, much has to be revised and improved in economic rela.-
A somewhat facetious document, one of the most violent criticisms
against the United States, is circulating widely. It is the Study
of the Financing of the General Plan for Economic and Social Develop-_
meat By economist Philippe Gu gna au et, adviser to t e Minister
finance.
If he is going to criticize government policy, he should refrain
from criticizing it with anybody he meets and from distributing
copies of the study at random. What if this study has been given
,in the relations between some Latin American countries and. the
Butledge, one of the attaches of the US Embassy in Paris, is one
of the innocent victims of the maneuverings to bring about a split
It is a scheme to try to weaken US-Ecuadoran relations, Robert
the government, in the words of Wentland, "to swallow" impossible
conditions in the business of ships, a business repudiated by the
agents themselves who, until they knew what it'was all about, were
almost the first to fall into the trap?
agent has received instructions to travel to Ecuador where he expects
policy? What if the brilliant critic Guignabaudet has confided
in the doubtful agent of Dr. Joseph Wentland? And what if Wentland's
whether it be good or bad, should be private -- of government
to foreigners who should not know about internal criticism -- which
United States.. ',