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SROURTITY INTORMA TION - 12 dus Fruit Company in several of the Caribbean countries; W. R. Grace and Company on the West Coast; the United States sugar interests in Cuba and the Dominican Republic; the investment of American and other foreign petroleum companies in Venezuela, an empire in itself, and also in Colombia and Peru; and United States air and ocean carriers. There are other foreign positions in Latin America that are easy targets for nationalist agitation, notably the Panama Canal and the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. e. In the event of war, the possibility of disruption, by hyper nationalists and communists, of communications, and the sabotage of miness oil fields, refineries and ports in order to deny the United States access to strategic materials. 10 A continual clamor, particularly in international organizations, for "parity" between the prices3/ of raw materials and manufactured goods, notwithstanding that prices of raw materials are at an all-stime high (e.go recent controversies with Bolivia over the tin and with Chile over the price of copper and the current discussion in the UN on the "parity" problem) go Continued insistence on an immedia te expansion of production while refusing to take the necessary steps, such as tax incentives, to channel local private capital into productive industries or to create a climate which will 3 In part the dissatisfaction with prices originates in resentment of price policies for essential commodities in the last war and our abrupt terminaw tion of purchase contracts after the war. They consider that the low prices they received for their products combined with their inability to use the proceeds until after the war when our price controls were removed was a great injustice; hence, they now desire guarantees from us against a decline in purchasing power of dollar reserves which they may acquire in the future. DECLASSIFTED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and OF the DECURIT TURORMATION D P of State litter, Aug. 9, 1973 Dy NLT HC NARS.Dele 5-3-77

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