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The '''Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs''' was a United States agency promoting inter-American cooperation during the 1940s, especially in commercial and economic areas.  It was started in August 1940 as OCCCRBAR (Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics) with [[Nelson Rockefeller]] as its head, appointed by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]].<ref>Thomson, Charles Alexander Holmes, [http://books.google.com/books?id=5ZXqQTLCm54C&printsec=frontcover ''Overseas information service of the United States Government''], The Brookings Institution, 1948. Cf. p.4.</ref>

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