LATEST PEACE CORPS MOVES LEAVE NOBODY LOOKING GOOD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400220011-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 14, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/01/12 CIA-RDP88-01315R0004002ZQ011-5
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Latest Peace Corps Moves
heave Nobody ' Looking Goo
THE things young Peace
Corps volunteers are being
charged with these days in some
host countries would be laugh-
able, were they not such a reflec-
tion upon immature governments
and a smear upon the image of
the Corps.
Especially in Latin America,
but in parts of Asia and Africa,
too, the P e a c e Corps is being
asked to leave. And one is led to
believe that in some places our
money is still welcome. even if
our aid is not.
The men and women of the
dace Corps are, of course, open
o charges that they are fronting
for the CIA, or that they are
propagancTa outlets for the U.S.
government, or that by teaching
family planning the Volunteers
re really trying to destroy the
indigenous populations.
Place this mythical Volunteer
.over against the real one - the
one who is critical of his own
:government and hardly a collabo-
:rator of the CIA oT a trained
mouthpiece for the government
and a b a 1 a n. c e d picture
emerges.
The leftward nationalism now
sweeping through Latin America
is hurting operations such as the
Peace Corps. Banning the Peace
Corps wouldn't be so bad if these
countries were successful in es-
tablishing volunteer agencies of
their own to work among their
countrymen.
STILL, there was no help from
the local quarter, either, when all
the aid agencies w e r e lumped
into one Action Corps. Supporters
of this shuffle could say that an
outfit such as the Peace Corps
wouldn't lose its drive and iden-
tity, but try telling that to a Vol-
unteer. It's easily seen that one
into many doesn't go.
This melding of the volunteer
aid agencies may easily be mis-
read abroad as "politics" by a
partisan President. The apparent
de-emphasis of the Peace Corps
into one huge a .g e n c y may be
viewed as a lack of interest and
support on our part for what was
once a success. The leftist nation-
alists of Spanish America then
have an excuse to belittle the
Peace Corps and eventually re-
quest it to leave.
There's nothing uplifting about
the whole business. Nobody comes
out looking good.
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