QUADROS CROSSES 'EXPERTS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180074-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: September 6, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE MIAMI NEWS
FOIAb3b
SEPT
Quadros Crosses
CPYRGHT
The Kennedy Administration's New
rontier "experts" on inter-American
Ifairs have been rocked on their
feels anew by the recent spectacular
ctelopmentc in
razil.
T h e Harvard
lique in the egg-
ead braintrust op-
rating in and close
t the Waite Hous^
ese days was re-
orted "shocked"
t the sudden res-
nation of the enig-
r )alts Janio Quadros tram the Brazil-
i in presidency
At least tour of the so-called ex-
erts who ha'.e been handling and
ishandhng Latin American policies
utsi.'e normal State Department
hannels since President Kennedy was
i augurated were particularly dumb-
unded.
Among the hardest hit Aas Richard
athan Goodwin, 30-year-old White
Ouse staff adviser, who has set him-
elf up a, the kirgpin tor inter-
merican affairs in Washington. He
ode his first. iisit Latin America
fter he tandtd in White House
ffice early Uis year.
Goodwin, t'i attended last month's
Affiance to ?.v~ress conference at
unto r#/ Es;t, Uruguay, and dis-
n ur -tf hims~.l i~ "cuing mouse-
t ap, ? A 3 Braii'ian officials into a
rx k'r,it 3.irty in~'?t'ng with Cuban
r-m-.iat`tt ohielt-u9 I-rnestn Chet
ov-rij~h-d t.aiwid heavily on be-
Ft a c.iftI c"t ~. &,t Quadros.
At Punta del Este. Goodwin .made
sure everyone within hearing knew
that Quadros had asked him person-
ally to accompany him on his planned
trip to the United States in December
and escort him across the country.
With Goodwin. whatever the Brazil-
ians wanted at the conference' the
United States should make every ef-
fort to oblige
Sharing this sentiment - to the
point of embarrassment at one stage
- was Lincoln Gordon, Harvard
economics professor who has just been
confirmed as the new U. S. ambassa-
dor to Brazil.
When Brazil joined Coha at thr
conference to knock out a phrase in
the Charter of Punta del Este calling
for periodic, free and democratic
elections - a phrase sponsored by
the United States and Peru Gror-
don, who was a member of the l). S.
delegation, counseled that it live,
something the charter could get almg
without. The phrase was deleted.
Ambassador Gordon was of the
opinion that massive U. S. economic
aid to the Quadros government could
keep him or the side of the Unied
States, despite the Quadros flirtation
with the Sino-Soviet bloc.
Ambassador Stevenson and Arthur
Schlesinger Jr., another White House
staff "expert" on Latin America, had
expressed strong confidence in Quad-
ros to lead Brazil out of its economic
and political difficulties.
Now the experts can try another
countr'..
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