PROFESSOR ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS PANEL

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• Publication Date: November 22, 1971
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STORKS -- A University of w i d e s p r c a d a t tention
.Connecticut political scientist, throughout Latin America.
w h o's e off-the-record cone- ' The paper, which was the
rientary inadvertently trib. topic of at least one presiden-
gered a foreign policy flap tial news conference, was
in Latin America, will appear reported in the press as if
witli a panel of top foreign it were an official U.S. posi-
aiia.irs analysts in New York tion. Many who read it con-
Fr,,day to discuss the impact sidered it a clear indication
,of his views. - of fading U.S. interest in that
'I Dr: John Plank, professor part of the world.
of rolitical science and a The Buenos Aires news
former S 't a to Department magazine "Po nor onm" car-
aide, will meet with former Tied an interview with Dr.
Assistant :Secretary of State Plank bearing the headline,
Lincoln Gordon and three "Tile North Scorns t h e
o t h e r f o r e i gn affairs South." Many other South and
authorities to explore the i711- C'e n t r .a 1 American publira-
plications of. his paper which tions carried -reports of'.Dr.
was .titled, ' ' W e s tern Plank's views.
Hemisphere - Security: Latin "Siempre," a Mexican news
American and United States magazine, noted that Dr.
Assessments." Plank has bee>,i well-respected
In the report, Dr. Plank in. in Latin America and ex-
dicated that the . U.S. ad- pressed the suspicion that the/
ministration apparently felt CIA had leaked the report-
that Latin America no longer -And an official of an inter-
is.. strategically, politically. American organizolion, in a
ecohoinically or ideologically personal note to Dr. Plank,
of, life-or-death importance to blamed an "irresponsible
this country. . reporter" for publishing the
These comments were original work in a "17ghly
prepared as a private report distorted form." The official
to the Council on Foreign also thought the leak was in-
:Relations, but snmehow fr1l tentional and attributable to
into the hands of a reporter. o'fcial U.S. sources as a way
The resulting story received of shliOP g the tenuous nature
of the special relationship
between the U:S. and Latin
America.
As an a?tyr.:aath of the
uproar, the enter for Inter-
American - Iterations h a s
scheduled the panel
discussion for b p.m. Friday
at its New York offices.
Joialag -Dr. Plank and Gor-
den will ire Mariano Gron-
done, a n.)ted Argentine
scholar and journaIist;
William Rogers, ' a former
coordinator of the Alliance for
Pi'ogress, who will serve as
moderator, and Enrique V.
Iglesias, an officer of the
InterAmelican DE~c'.ai~ment
Bank. '. `` .
Dr. .Plank. who directs the
UConu Institute of Interna-
tional a P. d Tntc;cultural
Studies, 1S former director of
the State Department's' O'fice
of Research and AnAlysis for
American Republics, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research.
Before coming to UConn, he
was a senior fellow at the
Brookings In s t i t u.t e_ in
Washington.
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The Fall offensive of the peace
movement was initiated with the
objective of organizing such, mas-
sive and varied actions by the
majority of American people that
the ruling class and its Nixon
Administration would be faced
with only one"alternative-end
the aggressive war in South East
Asia this year and act on the
aggravated and accumulated
needs of the people as prior-
ities. Those objecuives are ever
more urgent and can be achieved.
That objective and perspective
v'as based on a number of inter-
related developments. The U.S.
and satellite military forces have
been unable to win against the
heroic liberation forces in Viet-
nam, Cambodia and Laos, and
made by the Provisional 11evo- Others hold to the concept of
lutiorary Government provided "the worse the better" and en-
the basis for ding the war. gage in revolutionary rhetoric.
Defections, de. aorali:;ation and Then there are varying degrees
anti-war actions t: in the U.S, of cynicism, individuallsnl, nihil-
forCes in Vietnam and t e expo- ism, anarchism, as well as the
sure of war crimes and other social-democratic Socialist and
activities by the Vietnam vets Trotskyite o, position, and Pro-
in this country acled!>d to the ar-, gressive Labor Party condemna-
gun?ents for ending; the war. tion of any proposals made by
Tlhe wage-freeze, taxes, inila- the Provisional Revolutionary
tion aggravated racism ash i re- Government of South Vietnam.
pression,? and crisis in h None of these are the domi-
health, schools add to the pie- nant or the major forces in the
ture. peace movement, but they can
Another set of develepa.e,:ts create momentary diversion s,
includes the conflicts and deep- disruption, confusion and false
ening differences in the ruling issues among certain sections of
class, the struggles for profit peace activists. Such elements
and power between the monop- also sometimes become a bar-
:,Iles of finance capital, the Pen- rier or obstacle between the or-
tagon papers, the struggles in ganized section of the peace
the courts and in the legislatures. movement and the broader move-
And in areas such as Latin rhent.
America, while U.S. imp,-1-in ism A growi g cca'iti0:1
holds en in some countries by : However, the important fact is
brutal CD I. gangster and murder that, in spite of such elements,
tactics, yet there have been the representatives of thirty ma-,
growing defeats for U.S. imTe- jor national organizations and 17
rialisrn especially in relation to area coalitions have developed
Cuba, and more recently in Chile a working, relationship through
are Peru, and in other countries. the People's Coalition for Peace
Ill tl.e U.S. peace rroverr t, and Justice, -which is the all-i,-:
there is a healthy grovzt'1 of elusive, multi-issue and rrulti-
t
f
h
t
2 L_~ al iJ tf ?; ~J 1, f t1 ~, t.
And the anti-inn ?erialist and so-
cialist forces on t e world
sells are P. great source of
strength to the pp
cc
m ove neat.
The above factors as well as
other c evelopments made the oh-
;ecwive 01 caring the war this
year a correct perspective and
much credit must be given to the
peace movement. As we come to
the last two months of the year,
it becomes mare imperative that
additional steps be taken to
achieve its objectives. This also
means that certain weal . messes
must be overcome and subjective
factors examined.
Some forces in the organized
peace movement continue to have
the concept of endless }Jar, even
t ,ough that view coincides with
Nixon's program 'of Vietnan i-
does not claim to he the total
of the movement but is always
in the process of growth, politi-
cally and in organized relations
with other forces. It includes
represent ;lion from the Con,.mu-
nist Party on its leading corn-
mittee where the great majority
are not Communists and where
no particular group is dominant.
The National Peace: Action Co-
aliticn as another Jo .'tor of the
organized peace forms was es-
t':blished at a conference of in-
dividuals in Cleveland after the
invasion of Cambodia. It was' or
gaihized by . a Trotskyite-S.W.;.
Split fro n the broader New i\io-
biiization Corn.:~,ittee. it uses the
toot;c of unilaterally, and with-
out any consultation or: diset'.S
sign, calling a conference to call.
an action and ter, getting indi-
viduals to endorse it. This form
is being used by them now. to
call a 'Na-tioral Conference in
December,. presumably to unify
the peace movement and :)!an
the Spring action. Alain, the
broaden forces of the peace
,.,
movenlare e::chlC.ed from
any me,.-.. dfui participation in
policy nhakin ;. -
i' ortuntately, as for the Nova.-n-
ber 6 PeaceAction-Day events,
the Peace and justice coalition
and many other forces participate
so as to make these actions mas-
sive and meaningful.
The NPAC does rot provide
the road or method for achieving
greater unity.
That struggle for unity re=
quires involving the broader
forces zany of them, completely
new to the organized .peace
movement-in the beginning st:,,r-
es of planning any effective con-
ference. This includes major sec-
tions of the labor movement, the
Black Liberation forces, the Chi-
cano- and Puerto Rican. and
others, the religious, academic
and scientific coinrnunity, and
many others. The app: each must
be to the majority of the Anleri-
car. people, and not to an inner-
power struggle or counter-pro-
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Since' very action of the tinit.nd Mates C ~ntrnl Intelli-
gence Agency is top secret, it is hard to ferret out the filets,
but over the years fragments emerge which throw some
light on its activities.
Its budget is split among a 100 items' in the United
States' multi-billion dollar defence appropriations. Only two
or' three Senators and Congressmen, members of a watchdog
1committee. are privy to its size. _ _,;NIIfNlllyd"lYdl!N?11'11;1!'"!"III'II!19!I!NiIIN!I19NIIIII!U'14;!I;IhI.~'!NIIII!IN!~ NIINUI~IPiU91111I1'!I!lilllf! info' .:;
i. The CIA itself reports to Despite its protestations nam who were charged with enforcement background,
another super-secret body. at being only an external the murder of a Vietnamese as opposed to the more
,he, National Defence Coun- agency, CIA agents were ac- national, said to be a double free-wheeling Ivy League
cil. which for the record sags tive in Miami, Florida, re- agent. - college graduates who
virtually nothing. Even its cruising Cuban refugees to Another agency, little- used to make up the core
membership is secret. fight. (known outside of the of their key people.
The agency's advice to the But it can be said that P t U'nited States that plays a One problem is that men
n n,4 White House
a
the CIA budget rivals that of
many medium-sized nations,
and it employs tens of
thousands of agents through.
out the world - probably
more than Russia.
The CIA is quick to point
'out that It operates only
outside the limits of the
continental United States.
Its work internally heir'g
'done by the FBI. Each
foreign post has a "Resi-
dent" who controls the ac-
tivities of his men in the
'held. Often the Resident
operates out of the United
States Embassy in. the
nation concerned. much to
.the disgust of regular din-
lomats who call CIA men
".spooks," sometimes to
their faces,
sting these world-wide o mainstay of President Ky's
eratins is a huge staff n military regime in South sophisticated compu r
;equipment ever work
'CIA headquarters at Lang- Vietnam, and there is no The
Iey, Virginia -. a massive doubt that it had a big hand a results t shis aconcrete building tucked - In toppling the neutralist are useful to the CIA and
ty
the National Sarnrity
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en
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v
ts have expaw-
nm
anouk in Cambodia. g
way a few miles from Wash- sed annoyance over the
ington, DC. Perhaps its most sicken- exercise.
A coy direction sign ing intervention was in The growing criticism is
:announces It as the Public Greece, where the colonels making it more difficult for
-Works Department for the . oligarchy boasts of the sup- the CIA to recruit suitable
.District of Columbia. port of the United States personnel. It is Said that
CIA critics say this piece Government as it imprisons . they are more and more
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Almost without exception, military coupe
around the world In recent yenra have brottglA
charges of involvement by America's Contra l
Intelligence Agency. Itecently Khig Ilussein Lea
hinted at CIA interference In Jordon, What i:i
this shadowy organisation and how does It werIi?
R. W. Cocking investigate:, fen Gemini Now
Service
Defenders of the agency
argue that every major
power must be In the' Intel-
ligence business as a
matter of self-protection.
On the charge of ama-
teurism, one CIA man told.
me: "Sure we make a lot
of mistakes, After all, the
United - States has been
running the world for only
a little more than 25 yearn.
Before us, the British were
doing It for nearly 300,
which gave them plenty of
time to learn how to run
an intelligence network." _
of cloak-and-dagger non- and tortures its democratic turning to men with a law
sense which deceives nobody opponents: is typical of the theatrical The evidence indicates
amateurism of- the entire that the CIA uses all classic
CIA operation, tools of a spy organisation
The CIA's most. spectacu- assassination, murder,
lar failure was, of course, bribery and blackmail of
;the Bay of Pis invasion of
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Green Beret troops in Viet-
'-Control
no
en
key role in supporting CIA resigning from the CIA
on the degree of support activity, is the National oftt'n find that employment
Prime Minister Fidel Castro Security Agency tNSAT, at Langley offers rea
had in his own country not to he confused with obstacles to getting a new
proved competely erroneous. NASA, the space agency. job.
Many liberal Senators claim Headquartered .- in a A well-publicised case
that the agency is so occurred in Washington re-
paranoid about Communists ~CCUrIt cently when a . CIA em-
t it
th
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a
sin
3nrl Commun
s I ployee resigned to return
collective judgements are sprawling complex at Fort to university teaching. He
often seriously distorted. y Certainly the record in- L AIeade, Maryland, some 30 was on the short list for a
miles from Langley, the plum appointment, but
dicates that the CIA is more NSA's security arrange- when it became known he
i
ht
g
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likely to be friendly to r
wing politicos and military
men than anybody else.
They have been accused,
often with convincing evi-
dence. of interfering on the
side of the generals in sev-
eral Latin American and
Carihhean countries, not-
ably Guatemala, Colombia.
:Argentina. and Brazil.
ments are, if possible. even had been a researcher for
tighter than those of the
-
CIA. It bristles with the CIA his name tree
Marine guards and any- dropped from censidera-
building without conspic-
uously displaying his iden-
tity will instantly have a
gun barrel at his head.
NSA's principal task is
~,+ Ili vu.. Mainstay military codes ,of ery.
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Special to the Daily World
LOS ANGELES, May 14 - The -Central Intel-
ligence Agency has been operating secret sur-
,veillance flights from the Van Nuys Airport in
the San Fernando Valley, it was learned here
this week.
Under cover of "Judd Airways," an ostensibly
commercial airline company, CIA electronic sur-
veillance of South American countries has been
conducted by high and low level jet aircraft, ac-
cording to a pilot formerly employed by the -air-
' This secref CIA office ' nestled among build-
ings of the California Air National Guard Van
.
Nuys Tactical Air Wing has sent out planes ,to ` ?;,countries.
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track guerrilla movements in Bolivia and Peru..:1
"Che" Guevara's group, leading to-the revolu-
The Valley Peace Center has been planning
to picket the airport tomorrow (Friday) to sup- '
port an Armed Forces Day demonstration by -
Following disclosure of the CIA operation, the
Peace Center has announced that the demonstra
tinn will include a
ro est
waling
t this
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p
me
a
ns
in
the' internal affairs ,of the Latin American 1
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Soviet attack on CIA mercenaries
MOSCOW - Busland Tuchnin, Soviet political commentator writ-
ing in the newspaper, "Izvestia," states "the latest exposures of CIA! /
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ther Latin American countries
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activities in Chile, Bolivia,
show one of the aspects of the U.S. policy of 'partnership' with Latin
America.
"If there is anything 'new' in the Latin American policy of the
? U.S.," Tuchnin rites, "it is only that the American monopolies have
to act in that area of the, world much more carefully and cautiously
than they did during the 'days of 'gunboat diplomacy.' Anti-imperial-I
ist feelings have now reached such a level that armed intervention can,
lead. to a real revolutionary explosion. Hence, Washington's tactics
of undermining from within, using the CIA and Latin American rightist
forces." Tuchnin names as CIA-backed groups the "Mario,Blanca"'
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terrible sepret are they keeping from the world? Who will watch the .
watchers? $5.95 at bookstores. LITTLE, 013011JUMI
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