"The United States will provide militery help to any freel;~— olected Latin-American government which asks for it to moet Commmist infiltration and subversion".
"The United States is miliarily prepared to provida such help in a hurry".
"The United States in co-operation with Latin Amorican eccuntriss if possible, tut alone if necessary, will see to it that no further Comianist regimes get established in Latin America",
These are the main points of a secret testimony given to the House Foreign Affairs Sub-Committce on Latin America by the Assistant Soc rotary of State, and later of promises civen by President Kennedy to Can tral American Presidents at the meeting in Costa Rica, Kennedy also re— affirmed the policy that the United States would taka in giving military action to restore governments to office if they had been ousted by Communists and put Presidents back into power even if the Communists had succeeded in carrying. out 4 coups