EGGHEAD POLITICS DANGEROUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180046-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: April 2, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

PYRGHT
In the dawning days of the
Kennedy Administration the
egghead branch ? of the New
Frontier launched a balloon
bearing the message ' that
U. S. representatives dealing
with Latin America should
get better acquainted with
the intellectuals, the poets
and philosophers throughout
the hemisphere.
With the b#.:king of such
prominent presidential advis-
ers as U. N. Ambassador Ad-
tai Stevenson and White
House Counselor Arthur M.
Schlesinger Jr., this message
Dame a part of the creed
f the New Frontiersmen's
new look at Latin America.
m
blI,>' rpeetfsp- 4,
or of U. tttt0-'
=also _a a iwaje that it Was' ,
leftists who are able to move ibtb iqr: e1'e misttdb4
in the intellectual circles. 'fie _Vag strength
It Argen-
Argentina is the most .te tf t ~s rt a I tt - /
cent case in point. Here, A.
bassador Stevenson and Dep. '?`
uty Assistant Secretary o11'
State Richard Na
win fell into tM 4
Itogelto Frtgetio, C
Peroniat-tiniag ' 'sy 4{.
Bence" behind the "Werne
meat ;wE$ . Ate
two F ~flb to
Brazil ' ob.
vious that Frotidhl was fin-.
ished. t"
ivhF` tt shodd not be Prig tt'16's ;major rtile
ill undertrthleg Goodwin. Steven,
" and nth-.. ? Wood,
a I u sins seowa experts, on Latin -America in
self, howeve ? :two the 1Kmnedy tips
tries where the bead . .- was strong
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with Bil MNa `
e ti "' !f 4 u'l Atai
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