THE MANN TO WATCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500150002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 5, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

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13 a mucn more uerugarory meanin~. i ney rninic or a M. Mann the u5 aispatcnea marines ana paratroop-,.
f ` . he believes himself to be a pr3ictical man.. Unfor- that not even General Wessin y Wessin claimed.
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. Thomas C, Mann, who is President Johnson's chief 1' who were getting the arms were all Communists. This
adviser on Latin American affairs, likes to describe , if true would indicate the presence in Santo Domingo :.?
himself as a pragmatist. He probably means only that alone of no fewer than 20,000 Communists, a figure;
pragmatist as being a cynic who is without ideals.
This would be a very poor description of Mr. Mann,
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Secretary of State and the President, will be that 'the. Bay of Pigs, and he played a part in the actual
expect to speaK With one voice on all matters attecting . .-.them that Mr. Mann helped plan the forcible. over
the hemisphere. Mr: Mann, with the support of the. throw of Castro which.was attempted at the time of ..1
Mann s nomination as Assistant Secretary of State for or elsewhere, thinks Undersecretary. Mann anything .1
rn-nr-Amnrirsn A[Fsire Pro irtn.,- r.,i,,trrni dirt. "Wa L..i -L1_ r..-it_- .L. -i-i-___a __1.. i- I
day before the ~ Senate unanimously confirmed Mr. ly the remark of a fool, and nobody in Latin America,
with the Latin Americans. On December its, io6;, the .?'? thought that if it did not express cynicism it was plain-.
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But the misunderstanding seems to. typify his relations ` 'Americans as a typically cynical remark; for they.',.
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the nobility of whose intentions is unchallengeable.
the voice than ever. But many Latin Americans seem overthrow, Mann Was, appointed deputy chief of the ?.