Concerning a New Latin American Policy Lobby
Goff, Fred
In his speech inaugurating the Center for Inter-American Relations, Inc. (CIR), 18 September 1967, Hubert H. Humphrey admonished his blue-ribbon audience: "...you will face the temptation to...
...George ieany, former apprentice plumber, President of the AFL-CIO since 1955 and member of the National War Labor Board since 1942...
...Among the first monographs2YACLA NTSLZT'2.R - Septe:b er '67 - 8 published by the CIR will be a study of Latin iAmerican political thought compiled by former Lartmouth Latin Americanist and current staff member of the Ford...
...illiail H. iLacLeish executivee Director), Director of Cornell's Latin America Year ('65'T6) and senior editor of VISIGN magazine...
...Rene d'Harnoncourt, Director, liuseur of modern Art...
...Archibald lacLeish, Pulitzer Prize poet and Ass t t Sec'y of State (44-'45...
...Leonard H. Golldenson, President and Director of mzlerican roadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc., since 1953...
...Ambassador to El Salvador (55-'57) and Mexico ('61-T63), Ass't Sec'y of State for Inter-Amer...
...ralbassador to Chile ('61-T64), lecturer at the Army and Navy Schools of Military Government and Administration (43-144...
...Ambassador to Brazil (61-t66), Ass't Sec'y of State for Inter-American Affairs ('66t67), and currently President of Johns Hopkins University...
...Standard Oil Co...
...of the Fedn...
...Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of Time, Inc...
...George S. ioore, President of the First National City Bank of New York, a director of United Aircraft, Northern Pacific Railway, Borg Warner Corp., Union Pacific Railroad Co., and member of the Board of Trustees of the U.S...
...companies, is the chief spokesman for U.S...
...Cne of the first of such policy seminars is to be a discussion of guerrilla activity in Latin America, featuring an opening presentation by Venezuelats U.S...
...Membership is by invitation only, rith dues of $200 for businessmen and profes- sionals in the Nre York area and $50 for academicians...
...CLA was formed in early 1965 by the merger of the Business Group for Latin America, the U.S...
...Thomas C. Mann, Texas lawyer, former U.S...
...Francis E. Grimes (Treasurer), special agent for the FBI ('39-'46) and Vice resident of Chase iManhattan Bank since 1946...
...since 1960, and a drctr...
...since 1962...
...CIR's Board of Directors reads like a ho's Who in the U.S...
...38-t44) and Vice-Fres...
...The cultural activities, art shows, music recitals, and fiLns and lectures are to be public, while the policy discussions are restricted to members and their guests...
...Affairs (60-'61 '64), currently President of the Automobile Manufacturers Association...
...since 1961, member of the President's panel of consultants on foreign policy, Secretary of the Carnegie Foundation, Trustee of the Institute for Defense Analysis (58-t61...
...Foundation in ie;w York, alian Silvert...
...Resides David Rockefeller, President and Executive Committee Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and Chairman of Chase International Investment Corp., who is CIR's Board chairman, the officers include: !jillialml D. Rogers (resident), partner of the prestigious Washington law firm Arnold and Porter, former Deputy Assistant Administrator of USAID and Deputy U.S...
...Council of the International Chamber of Commerce...
...of N.J...
...Formed as a tax-exempt membership corporation, the CIR was "designed to meet two criti- cal needs: more effective communication among those concerned with the process of political, economic and social development in the Hemisphere...
...Edgar F. Kaiser, Chairman and Director of the Kaiser Steol, Aluminum, Cement and Gypsum Corp'ns, Chairman of the Board of Willys-Cverland do Brasil, S.A., a Director of the Bank of tAmerica and Industrias aiser, Argentina, S.A., and a member of the President's issile Sites Labor Colrmission...
...Secretary), former public relations director for Ford Motor Co., Fore' International (57-'9), government relations counselor to Standard il Co., N.J...
...and greater awareness in the United States of the artistic traditions and cultural accomplishments of Latin America, the Caribbean area and Canada...
...Sharing the CIR's six story town house (formerly seat of the USSR Mission to the lN, saved from demolition and donated to the CIR by David Rockefeller t s cousin, the Chilean IMarquesa de Cuevas) is the Council on Latin America, Inc...
...since 1960...
...According to their brochure, the CLA, "a non-profit organization serving 180 U.S...
...of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Inc Arthur Ochs Sulzberger,'President and Publisher of the New York Times since 1951...
...a list of the member companies appears below...
...ambassador and former director of Caracas' Industrial Bank, Enrique Tejera Paris...
...Inter-AmericanNACLA Newsletter - September '67 - 9 Council and the Latin American Information Committee...
...institutions which have an interest in foreign policy in general and Latin American policy in particular...
...business operating in Latin unerica...
...international banking, industrial, labor, cultural and Council of Foreign Relations elite and includes among its 20 members: Charles W. Cole, President of Amherst (49-'60), Vice President Rockefeller Foundation ('60-'61), U.S...
...David S. Smith, Asstt Sec'y of the Air Force (54-t59), Coordinator of Internat'l Studies at Columbia Univ...
...Lincoln Gordon, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard professor ('36-'41), government economic advisor, U.S...
...CLA), which occupies the top floor...
...Coordinator of the .lliance for Progress ('63-'65...
...Although the membership list is not public at this time, this writer was told that the core of the approximately 110 members are from the Council on Foreign Relations, located across the street on the corner of 68th Street and Park Avenue...
...CIR), 18 September 1967, Hubert H. Humphrey admonished his blue-ribbon audience: "...you will face the temptation to deal chiefly with established institutions....you must bear in mind that what appears to be an establishment may only be the temporary pinnacle of an established disorder...
...Rawleiih Warner, Jr., President Socony Mobil Oil Company...
...Though both CLi and CLA have the same chairman, David ockefeller, and share the same building, this writer was assured by a C staff member that "there is no link between the purposes and operations of the two organizations...
...and John R. Ihite, employed by Standard Cil of Venezuela and its successor firm Creole Petroleum Corp., Venezuela, S.A...
...59-161) and partner of the international public relations firm of Allen and Iiurden, NYC...
...James A. Perkins, President of Cornell since 1963, trustee of the RAND Corp...
...Forest D. urden, Jr...
...The temptation must be quite strong for the CIR members and directors, themselves of the established U.S...
Vol. 1 • September 1967 • No. 7
