LATIN REACTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790020-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 15, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790020-0
OKLAHOMA CITY (0100.1 MAY 1 5 1961
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I. AFACTOR which undoubtedly cooled Ken- .
nedy administration ardor for ? crushing .
Castro immediately with American troops if
necessary has been ?the reaction of Latin
America to the, Ms . Villas disaster. -
On one hand manlatins were delighted
to see Uncle Sena get a comeuppance. On
the ? other hand, American newspapermen in '
South America now detect a feeling by many.
Latins that the. U. S. won't.win the cold war '
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i and that they bad better play it COOST.
, Since then Castro has openly proclaimed
his to be a Communist state. Reports of re-
vulsion among Latin governments are filter-
ing from Washington. But thamMinneappli?
Tribunvarrirssoza0?04.4aeliziceatical.??.at$%A,:this
pollturkTd?,VrasIWtita, 14E:p.:., "Irciw do You
kiforthat yOitritte 11 . ce_a1515i.i nhis' Latin
AMe-ridirfeeliii trrtliali -yoil-r- in-
telligencetiestifirffe.trat" the Cubans would
rise up in a_revolt against Castro?".
, BUT the emphasis now is on spurring so-
cial progress and needed reforms in
Latin America to forestall Communism and
isolate Castro. That is the reasoning behind
the new half-billion dollar aid bill to fund
President Kennedy's "alliance for progress"
in that region. ? '
Is it the answer? The Wall Street Journal,
j long a critic' of foreign aid, for. one doesn't
! think So.
But perhaps a 'direction, if not an answer,
comes in another .post-Cuba comment by
Max -`' "No .system can triumph or
I e e rvive less it has a fire at the centd.
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For world democracy, the fire at the cent'
' must be not only a passion for freedom bu
a sense of ease and familiarity with idea
i Th% trouble with the ',CiVn landings, wa
'Inot .1..;_t,the,,..0.6., *-4r0iiiolVe-ccilaliem bu
-it.w.?...,tiA,eralily,lpotipn ffite i t
ortance of ideolirr, espeally o a Lati
people."
atin Reaction
L_ Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790020-0