INCREASED TRAFFIC IN THE LATIN AMERICAN AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00069A000100030042-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: June 1, 1962
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
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TO : Chief, Acquisitions Branch, CIA Library
FROM s WH Area Coordinator, LY/AB
SUBJSCTs Increased Traffic in the Latin American Area
1 June 1962
The following observations are presented, per your request, on the
current increase in Ly/AB "traffic" in the Latin American area:
1, Increased subscriptionss
During May 1962, 282 Forms 1395 were processed for CIA requesters.
Of these requests, 216 represented new subscriptions for Latin American
newspapers and periodicals (exclusive of the special Cuban project). Of these
216 new subscriptions, about 90-95% were placed on behalf of the new Latin
American Section of FDD (FDD/BEA/LAS); and of these, about three-quarters
represented requests for either provincial papers and/or Communist Party
pub#ications which, it is believed, will not be readily available to the
part-time PPOs. Many provincial papers, for example, are to be obtained only
by actually visiting the provincial city of origin and the majority of these
cities do not have a consular staff upon whom the Embassy PPO can can. This
underscores, once more, one of the several weaknesses of the part-time PPO
system, and the need for a "regional PPO" in some form or other, be it through
the State Department system or through a commercial channel. This new, intensive
interest "in depth" in Latin America has never before been manifest....even in
the halcyon days of 1954-56, when the Guatemala problem soared interest in the
area, no attempt was made to cover Latin America beyond the national capitals
and the Consular General area of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is of considerable doubt
that the part-time PPOs, who have neither the time nor funds to travel, will
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be able to provide the requisite rapid and complete service that this new
expansion is even now demanding.
2. "Commercial" Channels:
25X1 A2d2 The 'roject for Cuban materials is a sort of "commercial"
operation and has given/is giving good results. The inherent physical limitations
of the arrangements, however, mitigate terribly against broad use of this
particular type of "commercial" operation. It demonstrates, however, how a
commercial arrangement of broader scope might be utilized to advantage.
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