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Attn:
Chief, Contact Division
Nonboy Bloc Area
Chief, New Orleans Office
NO-173-65
5 May 1965
Ref. :
The Information Council of the Americas, 620 Gravier Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
NO-152-65, Support Branch (Richardson) memo of 20 April 1965, NO-161-65
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1. The Information Council of the Americas (INCA) of 620 Gravier Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana, was recently opened as a source of foreign intelligence
information on the radio broadcasting industry in Latin America. The current
program of INCA is primarily concerned with the dissemination of taped record-
ings of anti-Communist material, called Truth Tapes, to certain radio broad-
casting stations in Latin America and North America for use as a weapon against
Communist penetration in the Americas. Its headquarters are located at 620
Gravier Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130. You will find the names of its
officers, directors, and consultants given on the enclosed letterhead of the.
organization.
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2. We have been in recent contact with Edward Scannell Butler, Executive
Vice President and Staff Director, and have received his assurances of whole-
hearted cooperation in our agency's mission. (Yesterday we examined all of the
files of correspondence between Mr. Butler and personnel of various radio-
stations in 16 Latin American countries. In order to build up a market for
the Truth Tapes program in Latin America, Mr. Butler first obtained from the
appropriate consul in New Orleans a list of the radio stations in operation in
his country.
He next wrote the administrative personnel of these stations
about the anti-Communist purpose of INCA and offered to supply each station
with Truth Tapes. Those stations requesting them were then provided with a
series of the tapes. One or two years later, Mr. Sutler sent the participating
station a questionnaire designed to elicit information about audience response
to the Truth Tapes program. Copies of the first questionnaire and of a revised
one are attached for your information. Judging by the responses we read, the
INCA correspondence files will provide a limited amount of information, dated
1964 and 1065, on the identification of radio stations in Latin America which
are broadcasting Truth Tapes, their addresses, the names of key personnel, the
identification of stations not responding to the INCA offer, sizes of audiences,
and their responses. In the case of Uruguay, the exchange of correspondence
between Mr. Butler and Dr. Martin Riqueo-Narancio contained information about
the political orientation of key radio personnel in Montevideo /N0-106717.
This example, however, is an exception, since the files contain virtually no
detailed political information of significance.
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3. Mr. Butler mentioned yesterday that, inasmuch as he was again revising
the questionnaire, he would welcome our sugestions about additional topics. We
suggested questions designed to elicit technical information about the station
and its equipment, such as descriptions (manufacturer, type, model) of trans-
mitter, receiver, antenna type and power, frequencies and frequency range, reli-
ability of equipment, normal and emergency power sources, remote pick-up arrange-
ments, etc. We stressed of course that none of these topics should be introduced
into the questionnaire unless Mr. Butler was convinced of their suitability for
his immediate purpose as well as for the long-term propaganda aim of his organi-
zation. He stated that our suggestions were entirely proper and, in his opinion,
were reasonable requests that would not arouse the station manager's curiosity.
We pointed out to Mr. Butler that, while information about key personnel and
their political orientation, about the station's administrative policies, etc.,
was of prime importance to us, these subjects obviously could not be introduced
into the questionnaire. He agreed that it would be better to elicit such infor-
mation in another manner, as he had done with Dr. Miqueo-Narancio, but because
of his very heavy responsibilities, he did not have time to develop similar
sources of information in each of the other 15 countries.
4. It occurs to us that you or a possible consumer could assist us by
suggesting other appropriate topics for Mr. Butler's consideration in the revision
of the questionnaire. We shall appreciate whatever help you can give us in this
regard.
5. In the meantime, as soon as all of Mr. Butler's current correspondence
has been properly filed, we expect to extract the appropriate information from
the folders and to present the material in a series of 00-B reports.
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Enclosures
CC: Services Branch
LLOYD A. RAY