A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER'S DISILLUSIONMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400220005-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 26, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST ~v''.
Approved For Release 2005/01/12 : CIA-RDP88-01315R00040022000532 J
2 6 SEP 1974
A Peace Corps Volunteer's Disiliu.sionxnent
When I and my fellow Peace Corps Lions, no political parties, no freedom
Volunteers to Chile arrived La Santi- of speech or the press. Those are ka-
aco, Chile, in 1995, we were greeted compiished facts, not po.an.iialitiez.
with a banner headline in one of the And It the Military spokesmen are to
afternoon papers, "Forty-Seven Agents be taken at their word, they are not
of the C.I.A. Arrive at Airport Today." going to permit a return to even- a
At the time I saw the paper's story truncated version of Chile's past fly
as at best something of a sick joke.. of political life in the near frtue, perk ;
"Us spies. for the C.I?s.? None of us haps not even within the decade. To
signed up to spy on anyonet We were their minds, it seems, elimination of
in Chile as representatives of the peo- Socialists and Communists did sot zo.
use : pie of the United States ... we came ally get at the core of their couna-fa
to Jive- with the Chileans, to under- political dificuities. A more general sp.
stand their country and culture and to proach was needed, i.e. the entire elirn.
land a lnacd-hi attacki.ng.the problems ination of the democratic process.