NATURE AND PURPOSE OF ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2003
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• Publication Date: September 16, 1965
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Approved For Release 2004/01/16 CIA-RDI L,fi@~Qg051" 001
' NATURE AND PURPOSE.; O'^ AL- :f As Senator FVLDHXCUT has pointed out, Communism, to hold back the tide that
IdANCE FOR PROGRESS' Juan Dosch and his party were bringing would otherwise sweep them away. That
Mr. RANDOLPIi. Mr. President, I .to their country the kind of revolution' is the surest way I know to hasten the
envisioned by the Alliance for Progress.; day when the great masses of people in
,Yield 10 minutes to the distinguished, But by 1965, the Defense Department, the' Latin America will have no other Path'
Senator from Oregon. U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Re-~ to follow to the promise of economic
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President,- yester- public, and many other high officials In'frcodom than the Communist path.
day the chairman of the Committee on the State Department and on the Whitel- It is a false promise; but we are In
Foreign Relations reported on the find- . house staff were frightened by the pros-{ danger of making the Alliance a false:
ing$ and the conclusions he reached from Pcct. They were frightened by the pros-i promise, too. Another intervention an.
the hearings held by the Committee on pect of returning to the practicahappll-'heha'.f of the likes of Donald Reid and
the American expedition into the Do- cation of the Alliance. % , Wessin y Wessin, and the people of Latin
minfcan Republic. My own (oars for. the future of the Al America will know once and for all that'
T want to endorse what he said 100 liance, and for the future of Latin Amer- the real Alliance for Progress died with
percent, both in its generalities and in '? tea are well known. ':.:,;..`.. Jotm Fitzgerald Itennedy.
Its specifies. '' I think the demands of the huge Pope-i -'In closing, I want to stress again that
But I want to add some observations lation growth there are going to over-` the critical Problems of economic growth,
of my own. whelm the Alliance at its present rate of:'that confront the people of Latin Amer-
it Is obvious from our activities in the progress. We must go much further,; icr, cannot be solved in economics that'
Dominican Republic that the American much faster, if rates of material progress continue to he domin-,tc 1 by landed aris-
Government does not have a clear idea, are to be achieved in those countries that tocracie..s. Their control must be broken
an Idea appreciated uniformly through- will avert a turn to outright communism. ; before economic popU'1.^,nr and industrial
out all its departments, of the nature or The 1)19 bottleneck to progress is 110'' -democracy can develop, and Task omens- i
11 purpose of the Alliance for Progress. the Treasury of the United States, nor1 moos consent that an article dealing with :
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Its purpose is to help reform the so- the Congress.
this topic which appeared in the July''.. cfah economic, and political systems of !nations of Latin America that cling tos issue of the Annals of the Academy of
all nondemocratic nations of the hemi- the past and to their present power to
political and Social Sciences appear at
sphere. We think of it as a peaceful, block reform. So long as these elements the conclusion Social
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nonviolent revolution, perhaps more in are aided and encouraged by the U.S. mll-I dent, I commend the Sen-!
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port of economic or military oligarchies. American military might if they can just of the
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or political dictatorships. demonstrate that a threat of communism eign he el o on which t I have ilia
We believe that the economic, politl : exir`-. they will continue to block csson honor Relations,
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cal, and social institutions which have tfalec6nomic reform.
prevailed In many places In South and I would remind the Secretary of Doa sesiniLstateemanship,;yw:~~,. ga yy,?,~::[w
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needs of the people. we saw the rise we bac
of Castro as the handwriting on the wall, t of American financial support, yet he still
and we took It as a warning that if af- failed to accomplish anything useful with
fairs continued in the southern half of it. We still have an Army of several
the hemisphere uninterrupted by any thousand in the Dominican Republic, al-
voluntary efforts, the Communist ele though V.S. aid to the Reid junta had
ments which won power in Cuba would been resumed and was in full supply.
be able to rand a Communist, revolution Detween January 1964 and April 1065, the
So the Alliance for Progress was de- dollars were mane available to the Reid
vised not to suppress the demand for government, In a country of about 31/2
change, but to aid it and direct It In million population. That means per
certain paths. That is the message the capita aid of about $17 for every man,
Department of Defense and the Central woman, and child In the Dominican Re-
Intelligence Agency have not yet under Public, for one of our largest aid pro-
'stood, The Alliance for Progress is in- grams anywhere in the world.
tended to change the status quo In Latin I How many countries can we occupy at!
America. We are pouring a billion dol- :one time? That is a question the Do-,
lays a year of private and public money tense Department and its counterparts
into that endeavor. Yet the Defense De-- in the State Department had better.
Pertinent and the CIA spend millions answer before they commit U.S. backing.
more trying to ofse'E Elie Alliance and to and intervention to every junta and po
forestall its purposes, tential junta in Latin America that comes:
Certainly they do so at the behest of up to them and whispers: "Communists
many of the people In the countries to are about to got us." Granted that we
the south who are intended to be dis- are approaching Halloween, the Defense,
placed by the Alliance. The landlords 'Department and the State Departments
and industrial oligarchs whose economic `should be told that Halloween goblins'
,r?., strangleholds must be broken, will al- have no place in United States-Latin.
;~./1 ways cry "Communist" when they see a American foreign policy.
threat to their domination. They do not ' Many of these Latin American oligar-
care much whether the t_ :.at is gen. 'chies and would-be military dictators,
uinely Communist or comes from demo- are using the American military to stay
cratie ;reform elements.. They stand to ' in power. They count on its gullibility,
lose out either way, and to many of them -_on ;our,; overriding obsession with;
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