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14-00000 suaect ETCOOnY-1's Fert ACTION 7 os fury oe e/a eee ef 3 CROSS AEFERENCE TO PROCESSING ACTION MARKED FOR UNDFXING NO INDEXING REQUIRED ONL? QUALIFIED DESK CAM [UDGE INDEXING ape tion in the Organization ‘and ‘ association : “thier of Sta-. Direction of-che “vextean Writers! df REQUIRED - REFERENCES + & + Mesoranius concern ning LICOCYY-1's perticipation in the ersanization and cirection of the Mexican Vriters! Assoctation (AEM). ‘The meno outlines vne Stacion's plens for using LICOOKY=1 and th tor MESPAWH perpeses. 1, Attache3-ig a LILINK Un AED wed efiors will ve closely cocriinated wits the LISEAM Project, ti eearailel (eut indeper jens) acciens might ce taken vis-a-vis tt QSMANGER is a memper) and selected Mexican intellectuals to supplemem. the LICOQCNY-1/AEM operaiica, 3, HEealqueriers comments are solicitei, I: it should pe deemed necessar; ic amené LICOOKY-L's OA to permit cnis activity, Neadquarters is requestei to initiate this action. Cc —— e Villard” Riis Distripnuvion: 3 - Chierl, SED vyate DIP ATCH WSPATCH SYRABOL A AD NUMSER EAeae, 622 CLASSIFICATION SECHET van amcturantaee gone:
seg SEPeet7 pea EL. on ” i { . 8 1. The first steps to organize the Mexican Writers’ Associd~ tion (AEM - Asociacién de Eseritores de México) were taken in February of 1964 after Bartolome Costa-Amic and the Zaplana - Bookstores published a proposal in the metropolitan newspapers, . 4 offering to establish a new series of library prizes and urging the Mexican writers to join an association that could provide material benefits for its members. The first meeting of the _ AEM was held on 11 August 1964. For some time the AEM remained as insignificant as other similar organizations which had been organized from time to time, such as the Society of Literary Au- thors and The Society of Friends of Mexican Books which never achieved any effectiveness or respectability. Mexico's established and well known writers have always shunned these organizations. 2. LICOOKY-1 became interested in the AEN through her friendship with Costa~Amic and saw the possibility of building the AEM into an organization which would include the middic of the road and right wing authors who had been systematically boycotted since the Lazaro CAirdenas' regime when Narciso Lassols, 23 member of the Communist Party, was Minister of Education. 3, LICOOKY-1 began a one man campaign of recruiting relatively well known right wing writers who could not be considered mediocre or nonentities, As LICOOKY-1's campairn began to succeed it be- came easier to recruit the nore important sriters of Mexico cover~ ing the whole political spectrum, In Octoner of 1964, LICOOKY-~1
- persuaded Carlos Pellicer. Cimara, well ‘known Mexican poet, to join the AEM. It then bedame easier to get other well known writers to join, In all LICOOKY-1 recruited about 80 of the well known Mexican writers to come into the AEM, At this time LICOOKY- - 1 knew nothing ef the Curopean Community of Writers (COMES - Comunité Europea degli Scrittori) or.plans to form a Community of Latin American Writers (CLE - Comunidad Latinoamericana de Escritores). 4. LICOCKY-1 has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the AEM which permits LICOOKY-1 to attend all Board Meetings and she is relied upon to do all details of organization and planning the AEM projects to assist the Mexican writer which is the ultimate objective of tne AEM. 5, In this work LICOOKY-1 has developed friendships with the leaders of the AEM including Pellicer and Juan Rulfo, both of whom were Mexican delegates to the COMES Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland durine the winter of 1555, tbellicer has in- vated LICOURY:i to bis xome and confers vita her on AlN probiers, usually once a week. Sne has free entrance to Rulfo's office at the Instituto Indirenista and he has visited LICCOKY-1's apartment. 6 Tne Station nopes tuat through LICOCKY-i the ALM can be used te defeat any attempts by, CONES through its affilifate CLE to form “ay ae