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...
...Mexleo ---- ________--- $76.4 2. Chile ----------------- 573.4 12...
...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...
...James K. Chenault, deputy chief of the U.S...
...For example, during the U.S...
...The Administrative Officer is in charge of the management of the embassy: budget, personnel, maintenance, security, etc...
...libraries and reading rooms, show In 1967, the USIA operated on a budget of $173 million...
...Army mission in Venezuela, ts shown at an Embassy Wrs conferece...
...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...
...Many AID Mission Directors work with the private investment officers who assist businessmen interested in these programs...
...business investment...
...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...
...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...
...3) The Press and Publications Service -- publishes a broad spectrum of material for release in local papers and periodicals...
...participate in plained...
...The posters are not identical...
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...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...
...Honduras -. ------- 67...
...corporations...
...help their favorite br its own posess" candidates and parties...
...press corps...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Paraguay ----- . .. ___ 659.7 8. Ecuador...
...73.1 April 29, 1969, p. 865...
...2) The Motion Picture and Film Service -- an estimated 900 million people see USIS films every year...
...Approximately half the AID technicians in Latin America are "contract employees," techni- cians under contract with U.S...
...The 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...
...2) Investment surveys -- marketing and investing surveys for U.S...
...Gives Helping Hand In Elections Overseas With Comic-Strip Posters Poster developed by USIA used for Dominican campaign, then, slightly modified, in Vietnam...
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...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...
...2,935 East Asia/Pacific...
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...any group of candidates...
...3,985 North Africa, Near East, S. Asia...
...The Economic Section: The Economic Officer takes part in negotiations relating to U.S...
...Box 57, Cathedral Station, N.Y., N.Y...
...6 U.S...
...Westmoreland on the Army of the Future...
...There are four main types of AID assistance, all of which benefit U.S...
...firms and interest payments on previous loans...
...3) Investment guarantees -- insurance against loss through riots, expropriation and other political setbacks, for U.S...
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...Subscription price: $5 per year...
...James Haahr, former Chief of Peruvian Embassy's Political Section follows debates in Peruvian Senate...
...1 Document: CRV Position Paper on the Peace Corps...
...The USIA supports 131 binational centers, 111 of which are in Latin America...
...businessman is advised to register with the Consular Officer...
...124.3 18, El Salvador ----------- 58.6 9. Guatemala .....------- 122.0 19...
...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...
...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...
...economic policy objectives and analyzes and reports on financial matters...
...CoMPaAT IRuuMAx or Am Aassa'rAc To ALIArct COUvTaEd Source: hTnuoue D3...
...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...
...universities and corporations...
...In addition, American shipping lines earned about $90 million in AID dollars for carrying these products to their destinations in the less developed countries...
...U.S...
...The Peace Corps budget for FY 1969 was set at $193 million (after an $8.7 million cut by Nixon...
...The Alliance for Progress, also established in 1961, administers all AID assistance in Latin America...
...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...
...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...
...In "troubled areas," the visiting U.S...
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...corporate investments...
...Source: The Task of Development AID, July 1968, p. 30...
...7 P.O...
...government non-military foreign assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961...
...ACCION is funded by corporate and foundation grants and is operated under the auspices of the Institute for International Education (See NACLA Newsletter, Vol...
...Ambassadors in Latin America...
...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...
...They monitor the local media and other information sources, maintain contacts with informants and keep Washington up-to-date on all internal developments...
...The inter-Ameri- can organization spokesmen, how- ever, said that the poster was strict- ly and solely the creation of USIA...
...The Consular Officer is also in charge of dispensing visas to foreign nationals for travel in the United States...
...imperialism and an arm of the CIA, the Peace Corps' image has been deteriorating rapidly in recent years...
...Nlcaragua...
...President Johnson observed that colDarable A m e r i c a n eectios rnes News Service rehabilitation programs in the Do- minican Republic...
...Peace Corps Volunteers...
...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...
...Haiti .-------- ____-- 61.6 6. Peru --- ..------------- 157.3 16...
...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...
...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...
...policy...
...Military Attaches are also part of each country team...
...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...
...This is the section where the main CIA intelligence-gathering operatives are placed in U.S...
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...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 chart below shows the total AID assistance to Latin American countries through December 31, 1967...
...329.1 14...
...Secondclass postage paid at New York, N.Y.-3Agency for International Development (AID) AID, a State Department agency, administers all U.S...
...10025 November, 1969-2The Public Affairs Officer is an officer of the United States Information Agency and is responsible for U.S...
...68.9 5. Dominican Republic_--- 259.0 15...
...embassies abroad...
...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...
...Spiro Agnew is current chairman of the Peace Corps' National Advisory Council (NAC...
...The USIS is the official voice of the U.S...
...corporate investors in Latin America...
...11 Constituent Assembly elections...
...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...
...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...
...Of the 1,912 AID technicians in Latin America in mid-1967 (the world total is 7,865), 958 were U.S...
...For a description of the PAO's activities, see the USIA section below...
...These exports create several hundred thousand American jobs and build permanent markets for future cash exports...
...These deficits are caused primarily by profit remittances by U.S...
...paign, asked the U. S. for sugges- n to study he sbe- uions,' an agency spokesman listen to and study speeches...
...4) Currency stabilization loans -- rectify deficits in a country's balance of payments...
...propaganda and cultural activities in the host country...
...In fiscal year 1967, AID economic programs financed more than $1.3 billion in export sales for American firms...
...Ii I _ I II AID and the U.S...
...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...
...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...
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...The Consular Officer extends U.S...
...Panama --------------- 115...
...The U. . mission, aware a y of the successful Dominican voter- meetings ind seminars and stay education program...
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...3 4. Bolivia...
...Coota Rica ------- - 0.0 7. Argentina .--------- __ 144.4 17...
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...Two hours after his FALN kidnappers released him, Col...
...doUlll for Progress, Senate 1,Ba -0unt-y II M country Foreign Relations Corn., 1. Brazil...
...He assists visiting U.S...
...Rocked by internal dissension over public political stands by PCV's and external charges of being an agent of U.S...
...In Mexico City, the USIA manages a printing plant...
...There is usually an Army, Naval and Air Force Attach6 stationed in each embassy...
...Grace & Co., one of the major U.S...
...Uruguay --.---------- __ 32.5 10...
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...government protection to American citizens and their property abroad...
...The learam turn-out was reported as 80.8 per ent of the eligible voters...
...These cultural centers teach English, maintain films and sponsor lectures, concerts, art exhibits, etc...
...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...
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...3. Colombia...
...accept the As for its role in supplying the will of the majority and go to the original posters to the Dominican polls...
...be- ex- ware of demagogues...
...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...
...They participate in small impact development projects in local communities on two year assignments...
...He maintains lists of attorneys, and acts as liaison with local tax, police and customs officials...
...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...
...Among the agency's three major magazines is Problems for Communism, printed in English and Spanish...
...The NACLA NEWSLETTER is published ten time a year by the North Juerioan Congress on Latin America...
...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...
...Among the "blue ribbon" members of President Johnson's 22-man NAC was J. Peter Grace, head of W.R...
...Normally, all the above men attend weekly country team meetings at the embassy to plot strategy for carrying out U.S...
...The AID Mission Director is responsible for the administration of the AID programs in his country (see AID section, below...
...They advise the local military officers on such matters as counter-insurgency techniques, arms and ordinance purchases, and so forth...
...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...
...USIA television programs have been telecast by more than 2,000 TV stations in 94 countries...
...government employees and 954 were "contract employees...
...secured samples away from extremists...
...corporations: 1) Development loans -- finance the purchase of U.S...
...The Agricultural Attache reports on agricultural production, trade policy, and market developments for various commodities (see also FAS section, below...
...2,442 Latin America...
...111, No...
...Nix on's appointment of Joseph Blatchford to head the PC in April, 1969 did little to improve the image...
...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...
...II, No...
...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...
...Minimum contribution for 1-yr...
...Venezuela...
...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...
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