ELOY ALFARO INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R000300250007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 14, 1958
• Content Type: MF

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Alice
June
I Executive Registzy
Chris
14 November 1958
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA : Deputy Director (Plans)
SUBJECT : Eloy Alfaro International Foundation
1. This memorandum suggests action on the part of the
DCI. Such action is contained in paragraph two.
2. Attached is a suggested reply, for signature, to the
letter of Colonel A. C. M. Azoy, New York State Civil Defense
Commission, requesting information on behalf of Lt. General
C. R. Huebner concerning the Elroy Alfaro International
Foundation.
Chief
Western Hemisphere Division
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18 Itifov 1958
Colonel. A. C. M. Amoy
New York State Civil Defense G.wmission
124 Want 28th Street
New York 16, Now York
Our records indicate that the :ploy Alfaro International
Foundation was formed in Panama City, Panama on 5 January
1949, and was legally recognised 'by the government of the
itepublic of Panama on 2Z January 1949. Article II of the
Sy-Laws stated, The Eloy Alfaro International Foundation is
a non-profit, non-political organization, created to honor, and
to promote knowledge of, the life of General Elroy Alfaro as a
statesman and liberator.
Among the fourteen members of the foutsdiag directorate
and council of the Toundation were prominent men from Panama,
Ecuador. the United States, and Cuba.
The motivating force within the foundation was Colon Eloy
Alfaro, son of Eloy Alfaro, the distinguished Ecuadoran s
,and statesman whose memory the organization perpetuates.
Colon #loy Alf"* was a graduate of the United States Military
Academy at West Point in 1913, an owner of as export-import
company, and at one time Ecuadoran representative to the
Organisation of American States. He was well known through-
out the Western Hemisphere for his active support of inter-
American unity and cooperation in peace and war. Since his
death in 1957, one of his sons, Eloy Alfaro Wig, also a graduate
of the United $tat** Military Academy, in 1939, has become a
leading influence in the Foundation.
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Up to 1952, a large number of the Foundation's decorations
had been awarded to soldiers and scholars from both the United
States and Latin America who were peemineat in the field of
Pan-Americanism. Lt. General Willis D. Crittenberger, U. S.
Army, a former chief of the Inter-American Defense Board, has
been one of the outstanding members of the order. Also, awards
have been given repeatedly to a number of former conmia ing
officers of the U. S. armed forces, such as Lt. General Albert C.
Wedemeyer, in the Pacific theater during World War It.
Among these in the field of education who were recipients
of the higher awards of the Foundation during the years 1953.
1954 and 1955, were the following: J. Hillis Miller, former
President. University of Florida; John Allen, vicee-President,
University of Florida; John S. Wright, the present President
of the University of Florida; and Dr. A. Curtis Wilgus, Director,
School of Inter-Americas dies, University of Florida, and
Director of the Pan-American Foundation.
The Eloy Alfaro International Foundation also has presented
busts and portraits of #loyy Alfare to many patriotic and nationally
known fraternal orders, such as dw Masonic Order, the American
Legion, and to public entities, such as the Nebraska State Capitol,
Lincoln, Nebraska, and governmental bodies of many Latin American
countries.
In recent years, the Eloy Alfsro International ;Foundation
has apparently been rather inaetivee. but there is no reason to
believe that it has not adhered to the reputable and idealistic
mission for which It was founded.
Siace rely,
sod
Allen W. Dulles
Director
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STATI.TC.
Letter to Colonel A. C. M. Azoy
cc: DDCI
Signature Recommended:
('igs:c;.` xitiia IiC~lns
eputy Director, Plans
DDP/WH Icrncc ( 14 November 1958 )
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Distribution:
Orig & 1 cc - Addressee
1 cc - DDCI
2 cc - Signer's file
1 cc - C
1 cc - CWH/3
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