CIA RIVALS CUBA ON OAS AGENDA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300450033-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 15, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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an article in a Bogota newspa-
per that blamed the weakness
of the OAS on the CIA.
Writing in El Espectadar,
Mr. Vasquez described the CIA; find U.S. spies behind every
as "the mysterious arm of thel plot and economic bad break.
United States." Its interven- These imaginations are ex
tions in the affairs of other, petted to be fully alight in
countries, he argued, has be-Quito next month, especially if
come "an inter-American prop-jMr, tissinger is net there.
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CIA rivals Cuba
on DJAS agenda
BY RICHARD o':WI#Rt
MG Sc Janeiro Bureau of The Suit
,
ber. Sunday, a former foreign Nixon administration had au-
minister, of Colombia, AlfredoI thorized $8 million to subvert
Rio de Janeiro=Central In=telligence. Agency. skulduggery
in Latin America is expected
to preoccupy the foreign minis-
ters at next month's. meeting
of the Organization of Ameri-
can States at least as much as'
the Cuba question, the issue
for which the-meeting is being
convened.
In fact, the potential for em-
barrassment to the United
States at the forthcoming
meeting in Quito, Ecuador, is
so great that some observers
here suggest that as the real
reason Henry A. Kissinger, the
Secretary of State, is not likely
to attend.
1 Both Cuba and the CIA are
sensitive subjects with Ameri-
can diplomats- and policy-mak-
ers in Latin America.
The OAS meeting will be
held November 8. The member
states will have to vote on
whether to end the 10-year
economic boycott of Cuba. A
majority of the members are
expected to approve ending the
embargo.
According to a report out of
Washington published here yes-
terday, MMr. Kissinger will not
attend the Quito conference. A
State Department spokesman
said the secretary's schedule
was filled through November.
The CIA has become some-
thing of an obsession with
many Latin American leaders
since its subversive activities
against the government of Dr.
.Salvador Allende of Chile be-
came known in. early Septem-
tem."
The former Colombian politi-.'
clan recalled the CIA's three
most spectacular operations in
Latin America:. The overthrow'
of President Jacob Arbenz of
Guatemala in 1954, the unsuc-
cessful invasion of Cuba at the
Bay, of Pigs in 1961, and the;
Chile operation. '
Because of these, and other
less : visible. operations, he
wrote, the OAS has been con-
verted into 'a -"debating aca-
demy, a forum for discussion,"
an. organization "without anyf
real power in hemispheric af-
fairs."
The reason, 'he maintains, is
because the Latin American !
members have tacitly given !
the United States the right to
intervene in their domestic of
fairs, even though this is in
violation of the Charter of the
OAS.
The Vasquez article is only.
the most recent attack against:
the - CIA, and indirectly,'
against the U.S. government.
In late September two Argen-
tine 'politicians, RodoIfo -Uig-
gros and Hector Sandler, attri- t
buted much of the terrorism
and political violence in theirf
country to the CIA.
Mr. Sandler, a left-wing con-
gressman, suggested thatothe
CIA was behind the new right-
wing assassination squad ac-
tive in Argentina, the Argen-
tine anti-Communist Atliance.1
Most observers agree that
the revelations, made in Wash-
ington September 7
that the
which was ousted in 1973. hash
fired the imaginations of many;
Latin Americans, who, before
that were not so disposed to;
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