United States policy regarding political developments in the Central American and Caribbean areas1

1. For previous documentation, see Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. iv, pp. 365 ff.


202. Letter From the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom) to the Ambassador in El Salvador (Mann)

Source: Department of State, Rubottom Files: Lot 59 D 573, El Salvador.


203. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE Files. Secret. National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) were high-level interdepartmental reports presenting authoritative appraisals of vital foreign policy problems. NIEs were drafted by officers from those agencies represented on the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC), discussed and revised by interdepartmental working groups coordinated by the Office of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), approved by the IAC, and circulated under the aegis of the CIA to the President, appropriate officers of cabinet level, and the National Security Council. The Department of State provided all political and some economic sections of NIEs.