SPEECH ON LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01116R000500560006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 8, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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8 December 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for African and Latin American Analysis
SUBJECT: Speech on Latin America and Caribbean (U)
1. I have worked up and have given to the language on
Soviet, Nicaraguan, Cuban and Libyan subversion that you asked for on
Saturday. I think it fits best right after the passages that deal with
terrorism, insurgency, and political instability. An alternative was to work
it in at the end (overall US goals could be described as both more achievable
and more threatened than in the past with the Soviets and their friends posing
the threat) but my feeling is that doing so would dilute the upbeat message
that Rick told me you wanted to leave. (C)
Z. Thanks for the phone call on Saturday. It perked up my day. To give
credit where it is due, while I developed the line of march and stitched the
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from OGI was the author of the portions on changing attitudes toward
capitalism and on the opportunities in Ecuador. Helpers in ALA included
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lea ers.
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