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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE : . FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In Reply, Please Refer to File No MAR 1 9 1965 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (AFSC) On February 27, 1965, a source furnished the following information concerning the Saturday Opinion Forum for high school students in the Philadelphia area held at Friends Select School, 17th and Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa., on February 20, 1965. This Forum was entitled "Latin Americax, Dynamite on Our Doorstep." The speakers were ig in his opening statements said that there was no blanket policy to rot Latin America as a unit because of the complete diversity - social, economic, political - which makes it extremely difficult to formulate a general policy for the area. He next discussed an effective U. S, policy in Latin America. The United States is not omnipotent, he said, our power in Latin America is limited and we can, at dest, "only help the Latin Americans to help themselves. These are the good things about our policy in Latin America, as he sees them: First, the Alliance for Progress, which is the only substantial thing we are doing to combat a dangerous situation, or, indeed could do under the circumstances; second, LAFTA, the Latin American Free Trade Association, an organization similar to the European Common Market; third, the Central American Customs Union, smaller than LAFTA but more