STANLEY ROSS AND HIS REPORT ON COMMUNISM IN BOLIVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R001200030014-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: December 1, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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1 December 1953
STATSPEC
I ORANDTJM FOR: Deputy Director (Plans)
SUBJECT : Stanley Ross and his Report on Communism
in Bolivia
1. The U. S. Government has received many copies of Nr,, Ross'
report asserting that Bolivia today is the gateway to Communist
penetration into the Western Hemisphere. All of these copies have
been accompanied by pressure--to deny U.S. economic support to the
present Bolivian Government. In this respect it appears that
Stanley Rose has close connections with tin mining interests
(Fatino, Hochschild and Aramayo) adversely affected by the national-
ization of mines under the present Government,
2.. Since 1 November eight copies of Ross' report have come to
the attention of CIA. Some copies have been received directly;
others have come from Stater FOA, and Ambassador Lodge. Both State
and FOA have indicated that they were being subjected to pressure
with regard to the Ross report, and that it had been rather plainly
indicated to them that failure on their part to take cognizance of
the charges of Communist influence in the present Bolivian Government
might lead to public charges that this information had been offered
to responsible government agencies, followed by asseverations or
charges by innuendo that the respective agencies had failed or
refused to consider the proffered information.
3., CurrentAllllllllllllllllll reports and information continuously being
received in Contact Division strongly suggest that the circulation
of the Rose report in Washington is folly coordinated with the
release of statements by Bolivian opposition leaders, from other
Latin American countries,, who make the same charges and seem to
rest their claims on identical or very similar documentation.
4. Circulation
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I. Circulation of the Ross report has generally coincided with
the occurrence and aftermath of an abortive revolutionary coup in
Cochabamba, ol.ivia, of 9 Llovember 1953, (at which time the U
.
Senate Banking Committee representatives were present in Bolivia).
In the revolt attempt, the Falange Socialists Boliviana party, with
the sup; ort of unidentified eau t side inter es a, sought to capture
the Bolivian president personally, and to overt xvw the Government by
force.
5_. In c iroaologica.. summary, the following copies of the I oss
report have been seen:
25X1 A 97 a consultant of CIA, about 3 November-,
deNabb"f l of the report for the use
25X1 A of his brother, New Mork City, who in
known as a public relations representative of the Patino tin
mining interests, As the appraisal was requested for a
25X1 A 'private individual WE Division declined comment and returned
the report to ~,
b. Copy No. 2 was given to Colonel 7heffield Edwards by
.A on or about 17 November. FOA requested a CLA evaluation
of the report. We understand that F OA T s attention to the
report was solicited or recommended by Msgr. Maguire of
National Catholic Welfare Conference.
c. Copy No. 3 was transmitted to CIA Contact Division,
with the recommendation of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, about 15 November.
d. Copy No. 4 was transmitted to C[A Contact Division
through a "Y" (confidential) sour ce, at approximately the same
date.
?. Copy No. 5 was offered directly to state Department,
ARA, by the author,, Stanley Ross, and was transmitted to CIA
by State for reproduction,, as a matter of record. This copy
was received in F QM/O on 18 November. (We are informed that
the author indicated to State Department officers that he
conteriplated using the report for a series of magazine articles
and was discussing that posaibility with the New York Times
and other publishers, He also indicated that the State
Department desired the report, he considered it worth fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars in view of the time and travel
costs invested in the work.)
. Copy No. 6
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f, Copy No. 6 was offered by the author to State Depart-
ment., OIR, early in November. The existence of this copy was
mentioned by OIR to CtA/OCI, and an OCI analyst examined it
cursorily,
g. We were informed yesterday of your memorandum showing
receipt of Copy No, 7, from the White House, where it was
delivered by Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who received it from the
author.
h, Since 9 otclock this morning we have learned that an
additional copy., Copy No. 8, has been handed to Ambassador
Lodge, who in turn has requested evaluation by the Department
of State.
25X1A
d. RQM/OIS transmitted the appraisal (coordinated except
for omission of Staff C) to WH Division (on 25 November) for
transmittal to Colonel Edwards in fulfillment of the original
request from FDA, ksave for any additions Staff C now may
make, this appraisal still constitutes a coordinated CIA
position.
_and to Staff C, In addition, DDI has received a copy
direct from AD/IC . One copy is enclosed herewith).
c. We also asked Staff C (on 19 November) to make an
analysis within the time limit to which OCt had agreed. Sta
C resigned the assignment,
6, The following action was taken before 25X1 A
receipt of your 30 November memorandum asking him to coordinate a
CIA reply to Copy No, 7 from the White Houses
a, RQ,M/0IS made (on 20 November) a page by page comparison
of the several copies then available. Minor discrepancies.,
omission of some enclosures, etc. were noted., but in general,
all copies of the report were the same, (Nor does the White
House copy, Copy No. 7, differ materially from the others),
b. OCI made a page by page analysis of the report at our
request within three working days (20, 23 and 2 November),
utilizing the comments WH Division also had prepared, OCIts
analysis concluded that the report is biased., sensational and
inaccurate. (We have given copies of this analysis to 25X1 A
7. RQM/OIS;
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is biaa'ed,
, raid with the basic conclueic ns regarding
cape of the report which suxeaarized frCjn
by the area specialists, who have followed
rn} in =z ,ivia h rjn S countries ror r ears a
that the Mgr Uove nt o o is a govs ut under foreign
supervision or o* which is aiding the international movement
of Coommim
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