CIA OR DRUGS, LATIN LEFTISTS BLAME PEACE CORPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400220009-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Content Type: NSPR

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By 11tAT~IIC. O1..F,1: We call enlist Panaman}- When word of the cxpul ",`There are no major prc4b-
same sion from Bolivia reached ]erns in those countries,"
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idc,alci Lain P,nisiice 5t Ft all volunteers to
America's young "ainbas- thing the peace Corps is Washington,, Peace Corps of- Dunn says, "The problems
f' 1 eel '1 cautious are minor of the kind you
sadors of peace" are increas-
ingly running into hostility
abroad.
This is especially true of
/~ -the Peace Corps in' Latin
America, where a rlsinf; left-
ist-nationalist wave,is. sweep-
ing the continent.
Hailed , by many , Latin
Americans as the most. }mag-
inative of President Kenne-
dys Now Frontier programs
when it was created a decade
ago; the Peace Corps now is
being damned by leftist-na-
tionalists in that region as:
r/ ( A cover for CIA espio-
nage activities.
A supporter of Oppres-
sive governments and all Out-
let for."inlpcrialistic" propa-
panda.
CJ An organization bent on
propagating the use of harm-
ful drugs among Latin Arner-
ica's young.
O A "'fascist" enterprise
whose aitn is to destroy
Latin America's vast Indian
population through the use of
family planning, contracep-
tives and even sterilization of
Indian women. n ma,a, 20 in Guyana; 150 in
Although n on e of the men of being CIA agents in with any sterilization. }Ionduras; 150 in Janlzica ica; 65
"T.
charges have been substanti mufti. "The charge was trumped in N}car'agua;'65 in'Paraguay,
The next they world be up by people who . . . let's Peru; ateci, theylrecently prompted -?219 in 1 nine in Urn ua,
rate the Peace Corps for lnl- say they didn't have the best the ouster of about. 120 morn- and 200 in Venezuela.
hers of. the Peace Corps finis- perialism and its aid to gov- interests of, the Peace Corps
ion from e alivia, ernmentswhose political phi- ?atheart."
s
Iosophics counter to their ` Dunn is lloncallilliittal
Paradoxically, shepherds -111 about nthr.r
possibl trouhh
doing,' Panamanian I' al elfin Cia g
Minister Juan Antonio Tack statement which ? said, in have whenever you are run-
told the United States. He Part. : . ning all operation like ours."
said the. decision "does not "We arc aware of no spc_ The "o1ler a.ti on ," as Dunn'
necessarily mean relations ?cific reasons given by the Bo. calls it, is a far cry from
between our two countries livian gover11111ent for this 1961, when 12 volunteers
are cooler." action. It is noted, however, were sent to Colombia to
However, the. request came that recently many articles trailblazc Peace Corps activi-
after repeated skirmishes be- have appeared in the Boliv- tics in Latin Americai.
tween Panamanian strong- ian press accusing the Peace Excluding Bolivia and Pan-'
rnan Gen. Omar Torrijos and Corps. of everything from van", the Peach Corps now is
the United States over the being 'imperialistic shies' to represented in 18 Latin
granting of political asylum st rilizinp; Bolivian ' Indian American and Caribbean
in the American-controlled women." countries.
Canal Tolle to persons want' ' the charges in Bolivia are With more than 1,000 rneli
eel by the Torrijos regime. one of those things that don't
? and nearly 1,000 women, The
really need all. answer says,
But it was II7 13011v1a, ' /i'ea3ce Corps' Latin` American
where the bizarre. is often \harlcn la~inii; ~lli'ectbi of ~probranl covers the largest
conmlonplace, that the Peace Public Relations for the area in the world. Africa is
Corps came under the heavi- Peace Corps. second.
cst fire. "The accusation of tieing a
nre c........ .,t., _-- %17,, 1- There nov,' are 347 Peirce
without a verbal attack have faced that everywhere
against the the Peace Corps we go. It is politically in-
since army Gen. Juan Jose spired. It is not true now, it
Torres seized the presidency, 'level' has been anti never will
in a flurry of coups and be.
countercoups. last October ? "As far as the sterilization
and declared his leftist-na- charges go, vie were involve('
British Honduras; ? S3 in
Chile; 191, in Colombia; 90 in
Costa Rica. (with the possibil-
ity that those expelled from
,Bolivia may be transferred,
there); 65 in the Dominican
Republic; 170 in the, eastern
tionallst intentions. in some family planning and +~,,ibb"an 02 in Ecuador; 70
the Peace Corps introduced """' "?' "o run. -1 ""
shears in 19,62 and increased leftist press would blat:le the now by a Marxist gov-
wool production by thou- Peace Corps for introducing erument, and Peru, wheie a
sands of pounds a year. the drugs into Bolivia. leftist-nationalist military
Finally, leftists clauncd the junta is in power.
Another country, Panama, Peace Corps was sterilizing (In the fall of 1969 before
requested the withdrawal of Indian women to exterminate
the more than 80 Peace Ivlarxist Salvador- ' Allende
the race. was elected president, the.
Car}>s contingent from its 0116 peace Corps volunteer
territory in. February,
often- was accused of running a mously.voted to investigate'
an government would }iisti brothel. leftist charges that the Peace
ante a Peace Corps of its.. The charges were ridicu- Corps'taais riddled with CIA
own. The last of the vo11111_ taus and few believed them, . spies. The charges trigL;cred
teers returned to the United lint the peace Corps was still a controverscy, but no evi-
States in Auri . given notice in mid-klay to deuce of CIA involvement
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