ASSESSMENTS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00885R000800990057-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: April 23, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
John wanted you to have the attached
paper before you go to today's NSC. This
identifies four countries in tiie Caribbean--
J~_maica, The Dominican Republic, Dominica
and St. Lucia--that would benefit most
from additional LT.S. assistance.
You should also have received a
15 April paper ors "Prospects for Stability
in the Caribbean Basin through 1984,"
which assesses the security Situation
there and likely threats to regional
stability.
By 4 June you should receive a
broader paper focusing on the status
of about 30 strategic Third World
countries and their implications for
U.S. policy.
STAT
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23: April 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
THROUGH:
FROM:
Deputy Director for Intelligence_
Director of African and Latin American Analysis
SUBJECT: Assessments of Third ~~Torld Countries
Attached is a memorandum in response to your request for a
paper identifying pro-US countries in the Caribbean that could
benefit from US aid.
Attachment:
As stated
Attachment contains Secret material.
Upon removal of attachment regrade
as Unclassified.
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Central Intelligence Agenry
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Directorate of Intelligence
23 April 1982
The Caribbean: Economic Aid Requirements
' SUMMARY
This memorandum identifies four nations in the Caribbean region--
Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Dominica, and St. Lucia--that would benefit
most from additional US assistance. Because economic problems are the chief
threat to political stability in the region, increased economic aid is needed.
far more than military assistance. The amounts suggested here (see Table Z)
would supplement existing aid packages such as the Caribbean Basin Initiative
(CBI). Combined with an improved world economic situation, this assistance
would strengthen democratic institutions in the recipient countries and
increase US influence in the region.
The countries of the Caribbean Basin, except for oil-rich Trinidad and
Tobago, have been hard hit by the escalating cost of oiI and other imports and
declining prices for their major exports--sugar, coffee, bauxite, This, in
turn, has exacerbated the deep-rooted structural problems of s~lch countries as
Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and the mini-states of the Eastern Carib-
bean. The result has been high unemployment, serious inflation, declining GDP
growth, huge balance of payments deficits, and a pressing liquidity squeeze.
This economic crisis threatens political and social stability throughout the
region and creates conditions which Cuba and others seek to exploit through.
terrorism and subversion.
This memorandum was requested by the Executive Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. It was prepared by the Middle America/
Caribbean Division of the Office of African an a .zn American Analysis.
Information available through 20 April 1982 was used in preparing this
memorandum. It was coordinated with the Directorate of Operations and the
National Intelligence Officer for Latin America. Questions and comments are
we1
d should be directed to Chief, Middle America/Caribbean Division,
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