ROCKEFELLER: LATIN POLICY BAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100400012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 22, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? NEW ORLEANS.
New 'York Gov. Rockefeller
yesterday cited the situation
in Panama as typical of the ?
Democratic -administration's
failure to produce a success-
fu 1Latin-American foreign -
policy.
Addressing the Pan Ameri.'..
can press seminar, he turned.
a break in his campaign for?,
the Republican Presidentia1';.
nomination into a major
attack on the Administration
policy in Latin America.
He said the Alliance for ,
Progress had turned into "an ?
almost complete failure to
develop a truly joint ef,fort,::
although it was announced .
. . . in ringing terms of ex- .?
travagant promise."
He centered his attack on
the recent Panama crisis and
rioting.
"A dedicated and popular
United States ambassador
left (Panama) in frustration," ,?
Gov. Rockefeller charged. ? De-
spite all warnings of impend-
ing crisis, the post remained
unfilled for six months. When
the riots occurred in the
Canal one, no U. S. Ambas-
sador was on the spot to deal
with the situation."
He said the post-crisis han-
dling of things in Panama
was "undignified and un-
seemly."
"The confusion of Our
policy was made manifest ??
when on two occasions the ?
White House countermanded
committments the State De- ?
partment had already made,"-
he said.
. He proposed a 16-point
"agenda for action" which in-
cluded creation of an Under-
Secretary of State for Inter-
American affairs, and an in-
dependent government agency
'for serving the future of the
hemisphere."
He .' suggested inviting
Canada to jointhe Organiza-
tion of American States ..and
endorsed far-reaching pro- ?
Panama Cited as Typical Failure I
jects such as a nuclear-dug
sea-level canal across Central
America, and, solar and
clear systems to make fresh::
'water out of salt.
.The Governor received New..',1
Orleans' International House
Cunningham Award, for. in!!:-!'
tere4 In Latin America-. ????
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/30 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000100400012-0