LATIN AMERICA PRESENTS PROBLEM TO COMMUNISTS IN PLAN FOR 'ONE WORLD'

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 1999
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• Publication Date: October 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
COUN'T'RY Ecuador
SUBJECT L, -a in America Presents Problem to Cammmiste in
P. i for "One World"
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Co minism, was designed to attract Latin American Communists and to provide
an orientation towards "One World", i.e., the Comnnmiat World.
1. Pedro Bead, Ecuadorian Communist Labor leader, recently received an airmailee
circular stressing the international success of Communism, as usually developed
by Communist prropaganda, in opposition to American foreign policy, partieulax?ly
the Marshall Plan. This circular bore the return address of a contercial fins
in '.iris and was received by Saad through a Syrian commercial firm in Guayagt.il..
3.
3 circular, although mainly concerned with the world-wide strides made by
The writer of this propaganda stated that Latin American Communists my be
faced with difficult problems in the future. The fate of Latin American
Communism depends largely on measures which will be directed against it by
Wall Street, rather than by the individual Latin American governments. Latin
America, as a result of its geographic location and its proximity to imperia"..ist
nr cession, presents a problem for the Commmists which must be handled with
e{,::seine care.
4. The writer further stated that the Marshall Plan requires an enormous sacrifice
an behalf of the Latin American countries. It will reduce their purchasing
pier, which will in turn adversely affect the American export market, and will
in a short time turn public opinion in Latin America against those who have
imposed this plan upon them. He urged that the Latin.American Commmista fijht
this plan through propaganda, stressing the fact that the American imperialirte
want to dominate Latin American agricultural production to enhance their own
political and economic prestige.
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