The Imperial Team / Latin America
Bishop, Stu
Introduction The Country Team plays a key role in administering the Empire. The ambassador to a particular country is the leader of a unit whose main objective is to carry out the...
...President Johnson observed that colDarable A m e r i c a n eectios rnes News Service rehabilitation programs in the Do- minican Republic...
...corporate investors in Latin America...
...Ii I _ I II AID and the U.S...
...press corps...
...68.9 5. Dominican Republic_--- 259.0 15...
...government overseas and the Public Affairs Officer (POA) is an important member of each country team who, among other things, acts as the press spokesman for the ambassador...
...II, No...
...73.1 April 29, 1969, p. 865...
...Haiti .-------- ____-- 61.6 6. Peru --- ..------------- 157.3 16...
...firms and interest payments on previous loans...
...Military Attaches are also part of each country team...
...2,935 East Asia/Pacific...
...6 U.S...
...The USIS is the official voice of the U.S...
...government employees and 954 were "contract employees...
...Many AID Mission Directors work with the private investment officers who assist businessmen interested in these programs...
...corporations...
...Normally, all the above men attend weekly country team meetings at the embassy to plot strategy for carrying out U.S...
...Subscription price: $5 per year...
...Box 57, Cathedral Station, N.Y., N.Y...
...The first Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV's) started training in June, 1961 and, as of June, 1968, there were a total of 11,232 volunteers distributed as follows: Africa...
...Following is a brief description of some of the more important sections of the embassy and their functions: Political Section: Political Officers are intelligence gatherers and analysts...
...These men usually have the closest ties of any American with the local military forces and play key roles in the development of a given government's domestic and foreign military policy...
...1,870 The largest number of PCV's (36 percent of the total) are in Latin America...
...The posters are not identical...
...The AID Mission Director is responsible for the administration of the AID programs in his country (see AID section, below...
...For an informative account of an ambassador's role and his relation to his country team, see ex-Dominican ambassador John Bartlow Martin's book, Overtaken by Events (New York: Doubleday Co., 1966...
...The Peace Corps budget for FY 1969 was set at $193 million (after an $8.7 million cut by Nixon...
...military invasion and occupation of the Dominican Republic in 1965, the USIS's staff there mushroomed from three to over 20, the chief function of the additional personnel being that of middlemen with the U.S...
...In Mexico City, the USIA manages a printing plant...
...2) Investment surveys -- marketing and investing surveys for U.S...
...ACCION has been partly financed by the Ottinger Foundation and the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), both long suspected of being CIA conduits...
...The inter-Ameri- can organization spokesmen, how- ever, said that the poster was strict- ly and solely the creation of USIA...
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...Country Team is a complex machine, usually divided up into 11 different administrative sections ( See Page ), each headed by a highly-trained Foreign Service Officer...
...corporations: 1) Development loans -- finance the purchase of U.S...
...3) The Press and Publications Service -- publishes a broad spectrum of material for release in local papers and periodicals...
...There is usually an Army, Naval and Air Force Attach6 stationed in each embassy...
...The learam turn-out was reported as 80.8 per ent of the eligible voters...
...The chart below shows the total AID assistance to Latin American countries through December 31, 1967...
...7 - -- ---4United States Information Agency (USI) The USIA, known abroad as the United States Information Service (USIS), is the chief propaganda arm of the United States in Latin America...
...11 Constituent Assembly elections...
...The Alliance for Progress, also established in 1961, administers all AID assistance in Latin America...
...The ambassador to a particular country is the leader of a unit whose main objective is to carry out the foreign policy of the United States...
...The Consular Officer extends U.S...
...The NACLA NEWSLETTER is published ten time a year by the North Juerioan Congress on Latin America...
...Approximately half the AID technicians in Latin America are "contract employees," techni- cians under contract with U.S...
...economic policy objectives and analyzes and reports on financial matters...
...universities and corporations...
...business investment...
...businessman is advised to register with the Consular Officer...
...111, No...
...3. Colombia...
...any group of candidates...
...Peace Corps Volunteers...
...Paraguay ----- . .. ___ 659.7 8. Ecuador...
...They participate in small impact development projects in local communities on two year assignments...
...Secondclass postage paid at New York, N.Y.-3Agency for International Development (AID) AID, a State Department agency, administers all U.S...
...James K. Chenault, deputy chief of the U.S...
...Peace Corps Director, Jack Hood Vaughn (currently ambassador to Colombia), addressing the Public Affairs Forum of the Harvard Business School, February 13, 1968 (The New York Times, February 14, 1968...
...orougm out only about 40 per cet of The "good voter" s exhorted to the vote while contests between well eschew "violence" and "extremists," known candidates in a presidential which, in the case of the Dominican contest brought out 50 per cent...
...doUlll for Progress, Senate 1,Ba -0unt-y II M country Foreign Relations Corn., 1. Brazil...
...2) The Motion Picture and Film Service -- an estimated 900 million people see USIS films every year...
...430.3 18...
...These exports create several hundred thousand American jobs and build permanent markets for future cash exports...
...In fiscal year 1967, AID economic programs financed more than $1.3 billion in export sales for American firms...
...Source: The Task of Development AID, July 1968, p. 30...
...ACCION is funded by corporate and foundation grants and is operated under the auspices of the Institute for International Education (See NACLA Newsletter, Vol...
...imperialism and an arm of the CIA, the Peace Corps' image has been deteriorating rapidly in recent years...
...The Economic Section: The Economic Officer takes part in negotiations relating to U.S...
...The broadside, n which a- waving cartoon characters display nine stages in the political education of the "good voter," appears to be the brain child of the U.S...
...Of the 1,912 AID technicians in Latin America in mid-1967 (the world total is 7,865), 958 were U.S...
...secured samples away from extremists...
...accept the As for its role in supplying the will of the majority and go to the original posters to the Dominican polls...
...For a description of the PAO's activities, see the USIA section below...
...The Administrative Officer is in charge of the management of the embassy: budget, personnel, maintenance, security, etc...
...Ambassadors in Latin America...
...Republc, imrolve a picture of a USIA officials appeared slly ruffian with a carbine and in Viet- embarrassed yesterday when asked nam a ruffian with a knife...
...Mexleo ---- ________--- $76.4 2. Chile ----------------- 573.4 12...
...1, 1987 Survey of the Alliance [In mllonsofrU.S...
...These cultural centers teach English, maintain films and sponsor lectures, concerts, art exhibits, etc...
...Rocked by internal dissension over public political stands by PCV's and external charges of being an agent of U.S...
...embassies abroad...
...help their favorite br its own posess" candidates and parties...
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...Among other items, AID financed the export of $109 million in fertilizer, $150 million in chemicals, $120 million in iron and steel products, S360 million worth of machinery and equipment and $127 million worth of motor vehicles, engines and parts...
...1 Document: CRV Position Paper on the Peace Corps...
...Gives Helping Hand In Elections Overseas With Comic-Strip Posters Poster developed by USIA used for Dominican campaign, then, slightly modified, in Vietnam...
...Among the agency's three major magazines is Problems for Communism, printed in English and Spanish...
...about the new American "global" While the swarthy, mustached vot- election aids.' ers of Santo Domhf are rvlaced in They pokied out that the poster me Vietnamese poster by voters of merely urged the voters, whether in an indeterminate ethnic strain, buck- the Dominican Republic or in Viet- toothed, wearing headkerchiefs and namn, to exercise their right and re- somewhat thatch-headed, they got sponsibility to vote and did not 00g- the same advice on fundamental gest that they vote for any one or democracy in the American style...
...subscription: $5 In This Issue: The Imperial Team/ Latin America...
...corporate investments...
...be- ex- ware of demagogues...
...2,442 Latin America...
...The U. . mission, aware a y of the successful Dominican voter- meetings ind seminars and stay education program...
...libraries and reading rooms, show In 1967, the USIA operated on a budget of $173 million...
...Uruguay --.---------- __ 32.5 10...
...There are four main types of AID assistance, all of which benefit U.S...
...10025 November, 1969-2The Public Affairs Officer is an officer of the United States Information Agency and is responsible for U.S...
...1966-5Peace Corps (PC) The Peace Corps, established in 1961, the same year as AID and the Alliance for Progress, places Americans in Third World countries "to help fill these nations' critical needs for skilled manpower...
...policy...
...The Foreign Service expands along with the Empire: prior to World War II, there were only 700 Foreign Service Officers stationed in Washington and abroad while today there are over 7,500...
...Honduras -. ------- 67...
...For example, during the U.S...
...Panama --------------- 115...
...4) Currency stabilization loans -- rectify deficits in a country's balance of payments...
...10 Gen...
...Nlcaragua...
...These deficits are caused primarily by profit remittances by U.S...
...participate in plained...
...In addition, American shipping lines earned about $90 million in AID dollars for carrying these products to their destinations in the less developed countries...
...Informa- tion agency, which is headed by Leonard H. Marks, a former corn- municalini s lawyer and lobbyist The pos!tr was supplied by USIA first to the provisional government in the Domicinan Republic to stimulate voting for the presidential elections of June 1. Approximately 69 per cent of the eligible voters turned ot and elected Joaqum tialaguer by a large majority Tihe same nine-panel poster, slight- ly alered, turned up three months lWer in South Vietnam where it had been spplaed, again iby UIA, to the ruling g niiltary regime for Sept...
...As of December 1967, American business firms, colleges, nonprofit associations and other private groups held $531 million in AID contracts for technical assistance work in the less developed countries, and for development training and research in the United States...
...NACLA NEWSLETTER Vol...
...Labor Attache, also located in the Political Section, follows the political and economic activities of the local labor unions, and supplies information on labor policies and attitudes towards U.S...
...businessmen in establishing contacts and appointments with officials of the host government, supports the foreign activities of the Department of Commerce, and reports on business trends, market potentials, and local laws and customs that affect American business operations...
...In "troubled areas," the visiting U.S...
...Westmoreland on the Army of the Future...
...3) Investment guarantees -- insurance against loss through riots, expropriation and other political setbacks, for U.S...
...They advise the local military officers on such matters as counter-insurgency techniques, arms and ordinance purchases, and so forth...
...CoMPaAT IRuuMAx or Am Aassa'rAc To ALIArct COUvTaEd Source: hTnuoue D3...
...The USIA goes about its task of "Telling America's Story to the World" (as the plaque on its headquarters declares), using a variety of media: 1) The Voice of America -- beams broadcasts from 92 powerful transmitters throughout the world...
...III, No...
...Two hours after his FALN kidnappers released him, Col...
...124.3 18, El Salvador ----------- 58.6 9. Guatemala .....------- 122.0 19...
...equipment and services for long range infrastructure development projects such as roads and hydroelectric systems and social overhead projects such as schools and health facilities...
...Also, ty are of the Dominican Republic's liter- urged to choose candidates and par- lure and posters, which the Viet- ties they personally believe most use- name go unnt obviously ful to the country...
...1,9A6 21...
...In smaller posts, he sometimes performs the tasks of the Commercial Officer, whose main task is to "promote the trade, travel, and private investment interests of the United States...
...James Haahr, former Chief of Peruvian Embassy's Political Section follows debates in Peruvian Senate...
...Blatchford was formerly executive director and founder of ACCION (Americans for Community Cooperation in Other Nations) which coordinates community projects in Venezuela and Brazil "to counter communist propaganda...
...Economy Because AID financing is tied tightly to the purchase of American goods and services, AID spending directly produces export business for American farms and industry...
...Nix on's appointment of Joseph Blatchford to head the PC in April, 1969 did little to improve the image...
...paign, asked the U. S. for sugges- n to study he sbe- uions,' an agency spokesman listen to and study speeches...
...They monitor the local media and other information sources, maintain contacts with informants and keep Washington up-to-date on all internal developments...
...propaganda and cultural activities in the host country...
...The Dominican voter s depicted seated in an easy chair tunine his dial to political propaganda vAheeas the Vietnamese voter lies on his istomana on a rush mat while he weighs the rival candidates' claims...
...He has at his disposal a wide range of experts -- men with experience in finance, journalism, education, intelligence, military and political science, agriculture, and labor affairs...
...10027...
...government protection to American citizens and their property abroad...
...The USIA supports 131 binational centers, 111 of which are in Latin America...
...Coota Rica ------- - 0.0 7. Argentina .--------- __ 144.4 17...
...329.1 14...
...Grace & Co., one of the major U.S...
...3 4. Bolivia...
...3,985 North Africa, Near East, S. Asia...
...Army mission in Venezuela, ts shown at an Embassy Wrs conferece...
...This is the section where the main CIA intelligence-gathering operatives are placed in U.S...
...He assists visiting U.S...
...7 P.O...
...T can envision employers of all kinds, corporations, banks, insurance companies, law firms, engineering firms, you name it, allowing, indeed encouraging, the young men and women they have recruited on the campuses to spend a year or two in voluntary service, without a loss of seniority or of opportunity for advancement, but, on the contrary, with extra points...
...U.S...
...The U.S...
...In December 1967, the Christian Science Monitor reported "applications to join the Peace Corps dropped 30 percent this year," and in September 1969, the Committee of Returned Volunteers issued a statement calling for the complete abolition of the Peace Corps (see complete text of resolution below...
...The Consular Officer is also in charge of dispensing visas to foreign nationals for travel in the United States...
...government non-military foreign assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961...
...According to a recent AID publication, The Task of Development, 90 percent of all country assistance in fiscal year (FY) 1969 will go to 15 countries, six of them in Latin America -- the same six which were the main recipients through 1967: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Peru...
...Copyright ) 1969 by the North American Congress on Latin America, Inc...
...Republic, the agency insisted that ihis had eben done "through" the York Gazette Daily Organization of American States, which nominally supervised olitical York, Pa., Oct...
...Under a line reading "the nine "The government of Vietnam, in points of the good voter" hey are organizing its get-out-the-vote cam- reminded to study the platfo rs...
...New York Tie ;Washington--The United States gov- ernment has developed a comic-strip type of political poster that appears to work equally well on both sides of the globe...
...USIA television programs have been telecast by more than 2,000 TV stations in 94 countries...
...He maintains lists of attorneys, and acts as liaison with local tax, police and customs officials...
...Spiro Agnew is current chairman of the Peace Corps' National Advisory Council (NAC...
...Minimum contribution for 1-yr...
...Venezuela...
...4) Information Center Service -- operates a worldwide exhibits program and supplies books in English and local languages to individuals and institutions and to its own "binational centers...
...The Agricultural Attache reports on agricultural production, trade policy, and market developments for various commodities (see also FAS section, below...
...Among the "blue ribbon" members of President Johnson's 22-man NAC was J. Peter Grace, head of W.R...
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