VICTOR RIESEL: INSIDE LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402180001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 28, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified inPart - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402180001-2
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Tr' TAVERLY," Iowa ?There are ? dedicated men in ?
V this small Midwest city who have developed a ?
. counter-insurgency strategy which may yet frustrate
Peking and Havana guerrillas in the jungles of the
world. For, this is the home town of "Self-Help, Inc."
Into which pour the energies of a few who wearied of asking '.
futilely, "What can we do about it?" and decided simply to ?
?
"do it."
?? Actually this story begins back in .1035 when the *Chinese
Communists were on 'their retreat into the isolated north- '
west area of the. mainland. They stopped long enough to
choose Mao Tse-tung as their leader at the Tsun-yi ?con-
ferenee. ?
- Mao became Party leader with an independent strategic
concept?the concept of rural ?,-,?ue?illa warfare which is now
shal?i-g the world. It is based on winning the support of the
impoverished populace in the open fields and tangled jungles.
Here in Waverly some men are working and in un- ?
, deserved. obscurity to frustrate that master strategy.
? Self-Help's program is elementary:
Take . small, outdated machinery which is lying around
and rusting in disuse on a thousand American farms. Then
rebuild the equipment and send it to the underdeveloped ,
communities of the world?not as a gift but for a price, no
matter how small.
. There is, for example, the "thresher that flew" to the
remote jungle area of Maeurna in Ecuador. Americans at- .
tempting to help the Jiver? Indians saw immediately that to
? maintain their strength the jungle people needed ?protein
which could be supplied by soy beans. Since this crop had
to be harvested quickly in order to get the beans in before
the rainy season, the Indians needed a big threshing ma-
?
But ?the two Ar???erieans amongst them learned of Self-
Help. They flashecisL-..'st request for a combine (thresher).
Self-Help found ,an old one, refurbished it, replaced old,
worn parts with new ones,- painted it, crated it and dis-
patched it to New Orleans. Then it went by boat to Guayaquil,
'Ecuador. From this port it. was hauled by borrowed truck
?over the Andes to the end of the jungle. road, where it was.
dismantled and recrat,ed so it could fit into a Cessna-180 ?
plane and. be flown to an emergency' airstrip in the midst of ?
the forest. There the two AMericans..reassembled it. ?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402180001-2
STAT ,
Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402180001-2
NEW YORK"
JOURNAL A MERfCcN APR 2 8 1964
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Answer to Red- Guerrillas.
AVERLY, Iowa:?There are dedicated. men in
this small Midwest city who have developed a
, counter-insurgency strategy which may Yet frustrate
Peking and Havana guerrillas in the .jungles of the
world. For this is the home town of "Self-Help, Inc."
into. which pour the energies of a few who wearied of asking
futilely, "What can we do about it?" and decided simply to
"do it."
? Actually this story begins back in .1935 when the Chinese
Communists were on their retreat into the isolated north-
west area of the mainland. They stopped long enough to
choose Mao Tse-tung as their leader at the Tsun-yi -con-
ference.
Mao became Party leader with an independent strategic
concept?the concept of rural guerrilla warfare which is now
shaking the world. It is based on winning the support of the
impoverished populace in the open fields and tangled jungles. :
Here in Waverly some men are working and in un?
deserved obscurity to frustrate that master strategy. ? "
? Self-Help's program is elementary:
Take small, outdated machinery which is lying around
and rusting, in disuse on a thousand American farms. Then
rebuild the equipment and send it to the underdeveloped
communities of the world?not as a gift but for a price, no
matter how small.
. There 'is, for example, the "thresher that flew" to the
.remote jungle area of Macuma in Ecuador. Americans at-
tempting to help the Jivaro Indians saw immediately that to
? maintain their strength the jungle people needed protein
which could be supplied by soy beans. Since this crop had
to be harvested quickly in order to get the beans in before
the rainy season, the Indians needed a big threshing ma-
chine.
But ? the two ArteriCans amongst them learned of Self-
Help. They flasheds4 request for a combine (thresher).
Self-Help found an old one, refurbished it, replaced 'old,
worn parts with new ones,' painted it, crated it and dis-
patched it to New Orleans. Then it went by boat to Guayaquil,
Ecuador. From this port it was hauled by borrowed truck
?over the Andes to the end of the jungle road, where it was
dismantled and recrated so it could fit into a Cessna-180
plane and be flown to an emergency' airstrip in the midst of
the forest. -There the two Americans reassembled it.
. . . .
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402180001-2