MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR FROM STANLEY G. GROGAN RE BOGOTA INCIDENT

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• Publication Date: May 16, 1958

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16 May 1958
11111tANDOM FOR THE DIRECTCRs
1. This memorandwo is far information only.
2. The following *vent* related to the 19413 Bogota Dicidento may be
of interest.
23 March 191i8. CIA gets dispatch saying there would be attempts to landliate
the U.S.at the Bogota wasting and edght be personal molestation of Secretoru.
30 'larch 1948. Ninth International Conference of Arawrican Republies met in
Bogota. Ten days without Incident followed.
9 April. Jorge Oaten assassinated; wide-spread riots.
10 April. Representative Clarence Drown quoted In press to effect that there
should be an Investigation of CIA; surely if CIA had told State, Marshall
weld not have gem.
13 April, Thomas Dewey (running for office at the tine) was critical of CIA
in It UZI TIM, saying this sever would have hammed if the fine nu
intelligence system In Latin America had not been destroyed in furor of CIA.
15 April. Admiral. Rillenkoetter ssommed before Rause eutcommittee.
kartifer explained that his first thought had been to take the 23 March
dispatch to Undereserstery levutt but had been dissuaded because Orion J.
liberti State advance agent in Columbia with concurrence of Ambassador
Millard L. Boaulac had decided Marshall should not be enneceessrily alarmed.
16 Aril. President Truman expressed blemelf MR IOU =Ala mom) as
being as surprised as anyone else; White Rouse had not been expecting the
kind of developments that had occurred.
39 April. Admiral Zacharias said in press that CIA lacked competent personeel;
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20 April. Walter Limo= criticized ifillenkeetter for not warning of
coning events in -Bogota.
26 April. Representative Drown, who bad apologised to Iiilisnkeetter pri-
vate/7, szcoerated bin pebliely. (IIRWSWAIK, April 26, 1948)
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