U.S. LATIN POLICY HIT BY REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100500034-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: April 8, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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U.S. Latin
policy hit
by report
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
8 April 1983
WASH NGTON [AP}-A- group of
prominent U.S. and Latin American
citizens said Wednesday -that -a
flawed Reagan administration policy
in Central ?America risks :prolonged .
bloodshed in El Salvador -and new
turmoil in Nicaragua. -
It denounced past "overt and
covert U.S. intervention" in Latin
America and said "sharp external
confrontation with revolutionary re-
gimes" is more likely to breed revo-
lutionary sentiment than to quell it.
"The United States could do much
to foster a climate of security in the
region by making unequivocally
clear its commitment to respect na-
tional sovereignty," the group said
in. a study known as the Inter-Amen-
can Dialogue report.
it also urged "a many-sided dia-
logue" to peacefully end disputes
among all the governments of Cen-
tral America and their opposition
movements. It should include talks
among the U.S., Cuba and the Soviet
Union, the study said.
"Continued fighting in El Salva-
dor. continuing counterrevolutionary
activities in Nicaragua. escalating
violence in Guatemala-all are likely
to feed each other and even raise the
spectre of wider regional conflict," it
said. "We believe, therefore, that
negotiations should be tried.".
IT RECOMMENDED that the U.S.
and the Soviet Union extend the un-
derstanding that ended the 1962
Cuban missile crisis. .
At * that time, the Soviet Union
agreed to remove offensive weapons
from . Cuba and pledged mot to rein-
troduce them; the U.S. pledged to
end threats to invade and efforts to
subvert the Cuban government.
In extending that "basic princi-
ple," the study said, the Soviet Union
and Cuba could pledge not to deploy
strategic _or conventional combat
forces or facilities in any part of the
Caribbean and Central America, and
the U.S.- and the Soviets Could under-
take not to intervene in the internal
affairs of nations in the region.
Issued after a six-month study, the
report was prepared under-the joint ,
direction of So1YLinowitz,,` ormer
'U.S::representative to theiDrraaiz%='
lion of American -States, -and -Vvaio'~
Plaza, former president of Ecuador.
Participants included former polit-
ical leaders as well as business
leaders, academics and clerics from
the region. The U.S. members in-
cluded former Secretary of State
Edmund Muskie -and former Secre-
tary of Defense Elliott Richardson.
THE REPORT SAID 100,000. people
have been killed in fighting in Cen-
tral America in the last five years,
and a million people have been dis-
placed. '
On El Salvador, the panel said.
"The likeliest result of present
trends in El Salvador will simply be
to prolong the bloodshed without re-
spite "
The group said it was under "no
illusions" that the struggle could be
resolved through elections in which
the insurgents fail to participate. and
that military solutions are unlikely
to succeed either.
There is mounting evidence that
the Reagan administration has em-
barked on a covert campaign to
destabilize the leftist Sandinista go-
vernment in Nicaragua, including
arming and financing antigovern-
ment guerrillas. The administration
has refused to confirm or deny the
reports.
The report said verty,
sion and other dom~ic ills, rather
than outside intervention, are behind
most of the insurgencies and other
security problems in the Americas,
including El Salvador.
It said -revolutionary movements
now seeking power in -the region
should -have little desire to convert
their countries to Cuban or Soviet
outposts "if they feel secure from
subversion or harassment."
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