FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO BOGOTA EVENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020049-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: April 14, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2008/12/08: CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020049-0
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Assistant Director for Operations lA Apri 11 1948
Acting Chief, f1B
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1. A1th ugh eonitored broadcast* indicate wideepread foreign press att. ticnn
to the Bogota events, exeept for those frost Latin American tranositters the
monitored broadcasts thomoo1ves shore little tendency to concentrate, en the
subject. And with the exception of Soviet satellite trannaesniseiaanns attempting
to exploit the situation in terms of near -enanecessful Latin Aeeriesm opposition
to U..,. 'ieperLalisa' and of a Spanish prose opinion that ''the so-called
? demearacite' have coos more shown their complete incapacity to combat the
ag, ressoro," the broadcast interpretations do not speculate an or sties consider
the subject of a pocsib1e American 'loss of face.' Mthor, the majority opinion
expressed in monitored broadcasts (again excepting those from the U and her
aatellitea) to that the Bogota situation represents simply another of the
ubiquitous Soviet--sponsored attempts to torpedo western city.
2. CO UBll"i' IBL'TiGATIO s In discuss ions of its origin, the considerable noaiber
of monitored broadcasts from Latin American trenseaittere s1.1 take the position
that the Bogota uprising was initiated sn engineered IV the Communists at the
behest of Moscow. Statements peinnt to the need for heightened precautions
against further Communist provocative actions in Latin America are frequent ad
Coluabiae s reported break with the Soviet Union is volcoaned.
Reports of Swiss, Belgian, and ; panish press reaction likewise place the
blase on Communist attempts to thwart the Bogota Conference. Bany Vviss paper*
are said to *so* in the reaction brought an by the revolutionary attempts a >? ew
step in the anti-Como list trend in a .th America*; and the Badrid paper IA
hopes that the Bogota 'fig... will tapart to the decisions of the White House
a clearly defined diplamaoy and energy that they have lacked up to row.'
3. ioS IC C>9ABAC71 t OF THE J um84: French reaction, represented to date
by monitored Paris radio reviews of Ct SOIR and Li M IOZ,, is less ready to F-,
attribute the uprising to Communist sotton. According to *the Chub'
-ly*pathlzing Cl 04I4, $the insurrection to interpreted an a
ILLEGIB reaction against the ocaservstive and Fro-Anerioan policy'
"the opinion of LS MIDB (Bodersto) is not noticse