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...spite of the fact that a wide variety of governments turned up on the DAS roster-there were two unfailing characteristics which defined the work of its teams: 1) each client nation was headed by a non-Communist government which remained open and often friendly to American capital investment and 2) in each field project, the overwhelming priority was to raise that nation's Gross National Product without as much thought or attention to the social effects of growth or the basic fairness of that country's political-economic structure...
...later days, much of the Center's work consisted of undirected research and study by individual Faculty associates. But at the start, the CFIA was primarily a training institute for senior government officials from the United States and other non-Communist nations in Western Europe and East Asia...
Finally, Huntington lists additional means whereby the U. S. can ensure the outcome it desires. Among these are support of populist non-communist leaders that undercut NLF support (Peron and Rojas Pinilla are cited as examples), U. S. control over national media, and the use of bribes and "perk-barrel" projects...
...military, commercial and foreign-aid ventures for years have pumped a stream of dollars into non-Communist Asia. Usually, the dollars flowed right out again-mostly to London or Zurich. Asian capitalists preferred to deposit coveted hard currency without encountering the burdensome exchange restrictions and withholding taxes on interest that they would meet at home. Now, however, a growing number of the dollars are traveling no farther than Singapore. There, U.S. bankers and local officials have created a Far Eastern version of the Eurodollar market-the $40 billion pool of U.S. money on deposit in private banks in Europe...
China is still holding at least four other non-Communist Americans, all captured from planes shot down over Chinese territory (an undetermined number of Americans who worked for the Peking regime but fell into disfavor are also believed to be in Chinese prisons). Civilians John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau were in a plane destroyed over Manchuria during the Korean War, have been in captivity for more than 17 years. Air Force Captain Philip E. Smith was captured while on a reconnaissance mission along the China coast in 1965, and Navy Lieut. Robert J. Flynn was imprisoned after being shot...