LATIN AMERICAN SITUATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300260058-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: August 12, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

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Memorandum Of Conversafio
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DATE: August 12, 1971
SUBJECT: Latin American Situations
PLACE: Sans Souci Restaurant, Washington, D.C.
DATE: August 10, 1971
PARTICIPANTS: Mr. Ralph W. Richardson, Deputy Director, INR/RAR
Mr. Ryszard Krystosik, First Secretary, Polish Embassy
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Mr. Krystosik and I spent two pleasant hours over lunch, "getting acquainted"
and discussing some Latin American affairs.
Mr. Krystosik was especially interested in the following:
1. Chile. He asked how I saw the situation of President Allende.
My response was that the President was a very experienced politician with
wide personal popularity who thus far has done the expected skillful job
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of leading his coalition government.
2. Cuba. He inquired whether the US volleyball team's visit was
"significant", and if I knew what inspired Senator Thurmond's statement on
Soviet submarines.
On the volleyball matter, I simply repeated the guidance given by i1r. Crimmins
at the August 10 ARA staff meeting (no special significance whatso!Yver, no
parallel with "ping pong", simply part of the Olympic elimination =wrocess).
As for submarines, I said I had no idea what might have inspired the Senator's
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In turn, I sought to draw Mr. Krystosik out on any particularly interesting
aspects of the coalition situation in Chile, "from the viewpoint of a
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-socialist and political scientist . Mr. Krystosik countered with a general
Ch' 1 seemed to indicate
State Dept. review completed
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