FUNNY BUSINESS IN STATE DEPT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130021-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: July 19, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By VIRGINIA PREWETT I
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prejudice our Latin American
1, The area of the 'U.S. SOW , sugar suppliers. The case can
Department Whore P?119' , be made that it ? would Iso 1
made for .Latin ? America as . threaten the interests of the
.being raided again. . ' 1.0.S. sugar consumer.,
? 'In a pattern we have seen The State Department group
repeated many tithes in the ; who consistently struggle to
1 past, Stae Department officials , down-grade Latin America cart
who have no responsibility for ? get their way on sugar, onlx?
Latin America and no sympathy because the State DepariMenes1
toward it are forcing thru policy' Bureau of American Republics J
decision that do great damage is temporarily? operating at less
to U.S. -I., a Ilk. American than full farce.
relations. ? KNOWS, TIIE ROPES ,
The case in point is a short, Under ''? Secretary of State
flat diplomatic note . the U.S. ThOmai.? Mann is a tough'
-State Department has just and. 'seasoned foreign sertricei.!:
privately circulated amohg officer/ who had had one tour 'as L,
Latin American governments. A Asst. ' Secretary of Stafe for
Latin American group of 16' Latin America when President
'countries had previously sent' its Johnson named him to the post:, ?
oWn confidential aide-memoire It took him six months to get'
' ?to State 'asking for countries control of..Latin American' ,11-
-that are members of . the
Organization of American States
in be ' given preferential
treatment under the
, forthcoming U.S. Sugar Act.
The ,U.S. State Department'
. answer was a definite "No."
NO CONSULTATIONS ,
, Latin Americans are sure the
Wording of this. note and the
decision it embodies were never'
?.consulted ? up" to top Stn.
, Department levels, much less to
the ? White House.
'policy. ? ? ..
' The 'present Asst. Secretary of 4 .
State for Latin' America, 1
Oabassaclor Jack Hood Vaughn,
is seasoned in Washington's in-
fighting, but not in the Stae
Department's ''' special kind .? Of
internal wars' over policy. .
Ile has only been in office a
few months and is by. no means
Isl. Capable of defending his
area against the raiders when
.tlicymove in. -
. .
-.:,- At the monient the.,' White -
"floilFe's prestige ' . is deeply ,
? ? '
They believe ? they .know who
F
- imiirved in Latin America.' In
i;
? ? made the decision' to slap them
'the ' Dominican 'crisis, Latin '
n the face .on sugar. In the
.' American countries! some of
State Department there is , an
?them, helped , make the ,U.S.:
?'entrenched group who want to , ?
hito 1OAS T.
? do away with the existing military &dim there
',action. ? Those ; very. countries
system under which the U.S.
imports sugar. ' have now been slapped in the ..
??? face on' sugar. leo: ,. ? ...,4,4.1 ,.,.....,i.
1
' ?,' These thinkers , are looking '? -- ? ?.?-?.? ?? .4,4..,Vdt..ftio. ?Irriiii,
' . : years hence to a World Sugar'
i Agreement. They want to toss"
I; the 1-.0,g U.S. sugar market into
l. a big world basket with,. alt the
' .1', world producers and. '. 'carve
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