MANN SEEN OVERRULED ON PANAMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130103-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: March 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHING"] O,'' POST
AND TIMES HERALD
Alann Seen
er position toward the com-~
Ci F3 Panana mit.tee's announcement of an
~i Y agreement than did President
Johnson. Mann, in any event,
Latin Leaders Feel agreed in principle to the,
OAS announcement early on
Johnsoii Frustrated Sunday in conversations with'
committee members, accord-
Mediation Efforts ing to these members.
MAR 1 9 1964
The White House and State
Department declined to corn-!
merit on the reported division
inion between the White:
of o
p
verru ed tilouse and State Department.
husk and Mann are under-:
!stood to have advocated "soft-
OJ 1`Oc
~ BAs
Start Reporter The President, however,
talked with Mann on Sunday
President Johnson ap-afternoon, a n d apparently
pears to have overruled the frowned on the OAS plan. As
views of the State Depart;a result, Mann told the corn-
meat and his chief adviser mittee just before ilt; press
conference was held that the
on Latin America un the U.S. preferred to delay the an-
handling of the Panama nouncemcnt. Committee mem-
bers, however, gay, in the face
,Canal dispute, U.S. sources of U.S. denials, that he in-
said yesterday. dicated the U.S. would not op,
The differences were voiced pose an immediate announce-
Sunday night at an emergency ment.
At any rate, Mann, backed
White House meeting attend- by Rusk, U.S. sources said, did
ed by Secretary of State Dean not. fully support President
Rusk and Latin Affairs ad-Johnson's view that the U.S._
viler Thomas C. Mann, who!should flatly contradict the
is also Assistant Secretary OAS committee.
of State. Some reports -indicate that
The conference was called the President did not feel Later, both Foreign Alin-
after the special Panama com- Mann had made it clear enough aster Galileo Solis and Pan-,_
:mittee of the Organization of to the committee that the U.S. manian Ambassador Aliguel .f?
American States said it would opposed its action. hlowever. Aloreno denied reports that
hold a press conference to in a sepech before the OAS Ch
announce that a preliminary Council the following day, he they they nod denied
made cited ted cots th nt r U.S.
agreement between the reaffirmed his confidence in sourcee,
,United States and Panama' his adviser. At any rate, Mann, in the
had been r e a c h e d on the The President, U.S. sources eyes any Latin officials,
Canal issue. said, was influenced in his
decision, at. least in part, by`has emerged as a more "li
The apparent conflict witir lreports from - Panama that bcral and "understanding".'
in the Government came to.seemed to give the impression diplomat than he Iliad been
light as att1 OAS committee an-;' considered previousl ;'
flounced that President John-'that Panamanian leaders had y ? he,
said in radio interviews that President's image, on the
been n a attitude rebuttal of appeared the to agree ree-'the accord amounted to U.S. other hand, has deteriorated
-, considerably. renegotiat meat it said was approved -byjagl'ement
contTherseoversialo1903 treatye the. OAS officials charge that
Mann. the President added insult to
were examples, he ap- injury when, at the OAS
Is Asked to Continue I'parently felt, of what could Council meeting, which was
The committee said it had be, expected unless Panama intended to stress the need:
tried and failed to resolve -thei made it clear from the begin- for gerater hemispheric coop.
10-week-old dispute. However; tying that the U.S. - had not erasion, Mr. Johnson com?
the full, 17-nation OAS Caen-',.committed itself in advance tomented strongly on the Pana?
teal Commission, which has' such renegotiation. He wanted ma situation. They also ex-
been empowered to look into, this to be made clear in inter- pressed irritation over his un-,
the dispute under provisions pretative . statements by both smiling demeanor at the meet%
of the Inter-Americana Treaty countries that would accom- ing, and the' abruptness- of his
of Mutual Assistance, met last pany the .written agreement exit.
night and after approving they
committee's report, asked it to!
continue its mediation effort. -
The five-man committee,
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