This collection contains documents related to the relationship of the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico and efforts to contain the spread of communism in those countries. Supporting materials include oral histories and photographs.
Containment in Latin America: The Truman Administration's Policies Toward Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico
Documents
1945
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Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Ambassador Adolf Berle, Jr., with Attachment, October 1945 (NAID: 205714904)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Brazil: General (NAID: 750222)
1946
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Memorandum from President Harry S. Truman to Secretary of State James Byrnes, with Attached Letters from Fiorello LaGuardia to President Harry S. Truman, February 1946 (NAID: 205714912)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Brazil: General (NAID: 750222)
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Letter from Ambassador George Messersmith to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachments, June 1946 (NAID: 205713492)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Argentina (NAID: 750210)
1947
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White House Press Release, Address of President Harry S. Truman, April 28, 1947 (NAID: 284839956)
Part of:
- Collection: White House Press Release Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 560197)
- Series: White House Press Releases, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 560198)
- File Unit: April 1947 (NAID: 23812717)
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Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Ambassador James Bruce, November 1947 (NAID: 205713976)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Argentina (NAID: 750210)
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Letter from Ambassador William Pawley to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachments, August 1947 (NAID: 148372011)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Latin America (NAID: 750323)
1948
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Reports and Estimates Report, Number 9-48, Cuban Political Trends, March 26, 1948 (NAID: 225248347)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Intelligence Files, 1946 - 1953 (NAID: 602196)
- File Unit: Central Intelligence Reports File, 1946-1953: O.R.E [Office of Reports and Estimates]: 1948: 6-15 [6, 7, 9-15: January 13-August 3] (NAID: 875471)
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Memorandum from Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett to President Harry S. Truman, December 7, 1948 (NAID: 205715353)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: "C" (NAID: 750227)
1949
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Reports and Estimates Report Number 60-49, Standardization-of-Arms Program in the Western Hemisphere, June 30, 1949 (NAID: 293814485)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Intelligence Files, 1946 - 1953 (NAID: 602196)
- File Unit: Central Intelligence Reports File, 1946-1953: O.R.E [Office of Reports and Estimates]: 1949: 60-74 [60, 65-69, 71, 74: June 27-December 15] (NAID: 875485)
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Reports and Estimates Report, Number 22-49, Importance to the United States of Latin American Civil Air Transport, October 2, 1949 (NAID: 225249587)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Intelligence Files, 1946 - 1953 (NAID: 602196)
- File Unit: Central Intelligence Reports File, 1946-1953: O.R.E [Office of Reports and Estimates]: 1949: 17, 22 [May 4, 1949-October 5, 1950] (NAID: 875481)
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Reports and Estimates Report, Number 11-49, The Caribbean Legion, March 17, 1949 (NAID: 225249515)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Intelligence Files, 1946 - 1953 (NAID: 602196)
- File Unit: Central Intelligence Reports File, 1946-1953: O.R.E [Office of Reports and Estimates]: 1949: 1-16 [1-3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 16: January 31-August 2] (NAID: 875480)
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Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Reports and Estimates Report, Number 50-48, Probably Argentine Policy Toward the United States to 1952 and Its Effects on United States Interests, February 15, 1949 (NAID: 225249115)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Intelligence Files, 1946 - 1953 (NAID: 602196)
- File Unit: Central Intelligence Reports File, 1946-1953: O.R.E [Office of Reports and Estimates]: 1948: 48-57 [48-53, 57: July 22, 1948-February 15, 1949] (NAID: 875477)
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Letter from James Bruce to William Pawley, with Attachment, March 8, 1949 (NAID: 205714051)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Argentina (NAID: 750210)
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Memorandum from T. R. Martin to William Pawley, with Attachments (NAID: 205714031)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Argentina (NAID: 750210)
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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ernest Gross, Dean Rusk, and Other State Department Officials, May 3, 1949 (NAID: 183390482)
Part of:
- Collection: Dean Acheson Papers, 1928 - 1972 (NAID: 591248)
- Series: Secretary of State Files, 1945 - 1972 (NAID: 201181)
- File Unit: Memoranda of Conversations File, 1949-1953: May-June, 1949 (NAID: 1721908)
1950
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National Security Council Report 56/2, Report to the President by the National Security Council on United States Policy Toward Inter-American Military Collaboration, May 18, 1950 (NAID: 334341778)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: National Security Council - Meetings File, 1945-1953: Meetings: 57: May 18, 1950 (NAID: 750636)
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Memorandum from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman, May 1, 1950 (NAID: 205714967)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Brazil: General (NAID: 750222)
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Correspondence Between President Harry S. Truman and Ambassador Stanton Griffis, March 1950 (NAID: 205714063)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Argentina (NAID: 750210)
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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Nelson Rockefeller, and Willard F. Barber, July 24, 1950 (NAID: 183392164)
Part of:
- Collection: Dean Acheson Papers, 1928 - 1972 (NAID: 591248)
- Series: Secretary of State Files, 1945 - 1972 (NAID: 201181)
- File Unit: Memoranda of Conversations File, 1949-1953: July, 1950 (NAID: 1721919)
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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Edward G. Miller, W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., and the Ambassadors of Nicaragua, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, and the Charges d'Affaires of Cuba, Haiti, and Ecuador, June 19, 1950 (NAID: 183391973)
Part of:
- Collection: Dean Acheson Papers, 1928 - 1972 (NAID: 591248)
- Series: Secretary of State Files, 1945 - 1972 (NAID: 201181)
- File Unit: Memoranda of Conversations File, 1949-1953: May-June, 1950 (NAID: 1721918)
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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Philip Murray and Other Representatives of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, February 17, 1950 (NAID: 183391527)
Part of:
- Collection: Dean Acheson Papers, 1928 - 1972 (NAID: 591248)
- Series: Secretary of State Files, 1945 - 1972 (NAID: 201181)
- File Unit: Memoranda of Conversations File, 1949-1953: February, 1950 (NAID: 1721914)
1951
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Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister of Argentina Hipolito Jesus Paz, Ambassador of Argentina Jeronimo Remorino, and Henry Dearborn, March 24, 1951 (NAID: 193223376)
Part of:
- Collection: Dean Acheson Papers, 1928 - 1972 (NAID: 591248)
- Series: Secretary of State Files, 1945 - 1972 (NAID: 201181)
- File Unit: Memoranda of Conversations File, 1949-1953: March, 1951 (NAID: 1721927)
1952
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Central intelligence Agency, National Intelligence Estimate 70, Conditions and Trends in Latin America Affecting United States Security, December 12, 1952 (NAID: 293814152)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Intelligence Files, 1946 - 1953 (NAID: 602196)
- File Unit: Central Intelligence Reports File, 1946-1953: National Intelligence Estimates: 67-75 [67, 69, 70, 72, 75: July 31, 1952 - January 9, 1953] (NAID: 875465)
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Memorandum from Thomas C. Mann to Charles Sawyer, with Attachment, December 11, 1952 (NAID: 148372012)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Latin America (NAID: 750323)
Undated
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Memorandum on Latin America (NAID: 148371997)
Part of:
- Collection: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960 (NAID: 1205)
- Series: Subject Files, 1945 - 1953 (NAID: 602191)
- File Unit: Foreign Affairs File, 1940-1953: Latin America (NAID: 750323)
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Oral History Interview with Thomas C. Mann (NAID: 201065)
Part of:
- Collection: Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Collection, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 1198)
- Series: Transcripts of Oral History Interviews, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 200668)
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Oral History Interview with Paul C. Daniels (NAID: 200977)
Part of:
- Collection: Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Collection, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 1198)
- Series: Transcripts of Oral History Interviews, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 200668)
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Oral History Interview with Merwin L. Bohan (NAID: 200954)
Part of:
- Collection: Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Collection, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 1198)
- Series: Transcripts of Oral History Interviews, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 200668)
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Oral History Interview with Jose Figueres Ferrer (NAID: 200861)
Part of:
- Collection: Harry S. Truman Library Oral History Collection, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 1198)
- Series: Transcripts of Oral History Interviews, 1960 - 2014 (NAID: 200668)