LETTER TO THE HONORABLE ALLEN W. DULLES FROM WILLIAM H. DRAPER

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• Publication Date: January 9, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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The President's Committee
To Study the United States Military Assistance Program
708 Jackson Place NW.
Washington 25, D. C.
9 January 1959
Ex+cutive Registry
In furtherance of the President's instruction to the Chairman
of the Committee for an evaluation of the U. S. Military As-
sistance Program, two studies have been programmed: (1) An ex-
amination of the effectiveness of our military aid in enabling
our allies in underdeveloped countries to meet the communist
threat of "internal" aggression or subversion; and (2) A treat-
ment of the problem of U. S. assistance to underdeveloped coun-
tries in terms of its political-sociological ramifications.
Dr. Lessing A. Kahn (Code 113, Ext. 3109) of the Committee's
staff has been given. responsibility for action on these studies.
In carrying through the designs for these studies, the subjects
in the attached enclosures represent some of the essential el-
ements. The Committee believes that the Central Intelligence
Agency would be best able to meet its requirements and in
this connection, Dr. Kahn has contacted of
your staff. It is suggested that within the time limits set
for the task, that our needs with respect to the first enclo-
sure be met in the form of a written submission, and, with re-
spect to the second enclosure, our requirements be satisfied by
discussions with appropriate working members of your staff.
It will be greatly appreciated if this request for assistance
is treated with some degree of urgency, with the answers re-
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quested in enclosure 1 and the discussions covering enclosure
2 provided by 26 January 1959.
Sincerely yours,
William H. Draper, Jr.
Chairman
Enclosures (2)
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
2430 E Street, N. W.
Washington 25, D. C.
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1. This request is for summary estimates of the character, scope,
and magnitude of the internal threats posed by communist operations
in the less developed countries. The countries to be covered in-
clude both independent and dependent countries; in Africa, all ex-
cept South Africa; in Asia, all except the communist states, Japan,
Australia, and New Zeal;snd; in Latin America, all. The form and
content of the data should be as follows:
a. A chart or tabulation showing the magnitude of the indig-
enous communist movements in the various countries. For each
country the information should include: (1) whether the com-
munist organization is legal or illegal; (2) the number of its
members; (3) the number of its supporters; and (4+) the number
of its sympathizers. An activist might be considered a mem-
ber; a voter might be considered a supporter; a fellow-traveller
might be considered a sympathizer. But CIA is welcome to fur-
nish its own definitions for these general categories of com-
munist affiliation.
b. A chart or tabulation for countries in which there are le-
gal communist parties, to show: (1) year of last national
elections; (2) communist votes in last national elections,
0 of total; (3) rank order among other parties in % of votes;
(4) per cent increase or decrease over previous national.. elec-
tions; (5) current seats in the national legislature, number
(per cent); and (6) other significant offices held, national
and local. For this purpose, CIA should include countries in
which the communist party, while identifiably communist, em-
ploys other labels.
c. A chart or tabulation to show the extent of communist in-
filtratinn of key organizations or elements in the various
countries. The criterion of extent of infiltration should be
"influence" or "control" in this case. The extent should be
described in quantitative terms such as; negligible, some, con-
siderable, predominant. The organizations or groupings to be
covered should include: armed forces, police, civil service,
education, communications (press, radio, movies, literature,
etc.), trade unions, ethnic minorities, tenant farmers, etc.
CIA should add other significant groups where appropriate, e.g.,
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leftist or radical-nationalist organizations or parties, veterans
organizations, guerrillas, and the like.
d. For each country, a brief estimate elaborating the chart data.
These should treat the indigenous communist threat over the next
five years or so.
e. For each country, a brief appraisal of their ability to cope
with communist revolutionary operations ranging from legal or
quasi-legal activities to armed insurrection.
f. For those underdeveloped countries in which the major inter-
nal threat to U. S. interests, other than communist: a brief es-
timate of the nature and gravity of the internal threat, as in
e above.
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1. The Committee would be interested in a briefing of its studies
group by selected members of the CIA staff, regarding the political
and social ramifications of military aid programs. Basic questions
to be covered in this briefing are of the following kind:
a. After the initiation of a military aid program, has there
been a political reorientation within officers corps of recip-
ient countries towards the U. S., or the Free World in general?
b. Have military aid programs improved the internal stability
of local military forces?
c. Have such programs been accompanied by a decline in communist
or otherwise subversive and revolutionary influence?
d. What has been the effect of such programs on attenuating
guerrilla unrest or on the prevention of guerrilla activities?
e. Have military officers who receive training in American in-
stitutions achieved prominence either within the military or-
ganizations or within the state and have they been able to in-
fluence local politics in a pro-American sense?
f. What have been the politically negative results of military
aid programs?
g. What have been the effects of such programs on the educa-
tional level in the recipient countries?
2. The information to be included in the subject briefing should be
oriented toward the individual countries with which the U. S. has
bilateral military aid agreements: Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Cuba,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Hati, Honduras, In-
dochinese States, Iran, Iraq, Korea, Libya, Nicaragua, Peru, Phil-
ippines, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay.
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