MAGAZINES CLOSED IN PERU CLAMPDOWN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400220004-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 22, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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`?2 1110V 1974
D,2 ce C0
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aga es Closed
In Peru Clampdown
Special to The Washington Post
LIMA-Three of Peru's last! Buenos Aires. The govern-
independent news magazines ment action was applauded by
have been shut down in the the rest of Lima's newspapers,
past week and nine journalists which were taken over by the
'
-ti .
leged "counterrevolutionary" , - ca, suggested last,
week that Peace Corps voluu- GEN:. JUAN VELASCO
forces within the country. teers in Peru were thought to ? ? . exiles journalists
. The drive w>as linkarl in n i , _ --
nave been exiled by Peru's Igovernment
in July.
m
continuing clampdown on ilitary government in its l One of the government pa.
vu iaax-t uL a --aestaollization"
government controlled news plan similar to that allegedly
paper last week to the recent ( carried out by the CIA against
ouster of the Peace Corps President Salvador Allende's
from Peru. government in Chile. . ` .
The Peruvian Times, an in-I On Nov. 4, the Peace Corps'
.f l u e n t i a l English-language 1 161 volunteers and 36 trainees
magazine, was closed last j were given three. months to
.Week, and two others, 6j-a! I leave Peru, but no official ex.
and Opinion Libre were) '
closed Wednesday. All were
shuttered because they made
public details of a $330 million
planation has been given nor
any formal announcement
made regarding the request.
The trainees and six of the
owned oil company and Japa-
nese concerns that are to
build a pipeline from Peru's
Amazon oilfields over the
Andes and down to the coun-
try's Pacific coast...-
Five lawyers quoted in
Washington while the rest
were. expected to 'leave
shortly.
. [In Washington, a - Peac3j
Corps spokesman . said thel
agency "strongly denies any
Opinion Libre and Oiga asl connection whatsoever" with
the CIA
)
.
critical of the deal were ar-
) The Peace Corps continued
rested Wednesda
The
y
y were
. among 15 attorneys charged
last week by the state prosecu-
tor with defaming state digni-
itaries and endangering the se.
?curity of the state after they
idenounced the contract as
"Illegal and in violation of Pe-
meat.,, f ..
has been highly' sensitive to;
Most of the nine Peruvian any suggestion that its con.
journalists deported flew to tracts with -foreign oil and;
mining companies are in. any!
way more favorable to the
companies than to Peru.
.It thus reacted strongly
whenthe,three magazines nowi
closed down revealed that the:
Japanese pipeline contracts
contained '... an,
arbitration
clause -that=permits the set-,j
tling of disputes by independ-
ent third parties. The govern-
ment earlier had attacked that
kind of clause -as:diminishing
the sovereignty of the state.
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to work In Peru during the
tense years after President
Juan Velasco Alvarado came
to power in a coup in 1968 and
expropriated a subsidiary 'of
the Standard Oil Co. five days
later.
. Nationalist in all its pro