DOMINICAN AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300200016-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: May 15, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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Dominican Agent
grounds it may provide for action against this lji,n
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 4957 IPA 1 -A12
yer for violation of the Foreign Agents Registration
Act does not by -any' means -"solve the lisappear-
ance of 'Dr. Jesus de Galindez and Gerald Lester.
Murphy, There is no indication, indeed, that the
indictment, which charges failure to register as an
agent of the Dominican Republic and collection of
information for the Trujillo regime, is directly re-
lated to the Galindoz or Murphy cases. The attor-
ney involved must of course be presumed innocent
until proved guilty. Nevertheless, it is significant
that the indictment was returned by the Federal
grand jury which, presumably on the basis of infor-
mation presented by the FBI,'has been investigating
the disappearance. This is a heartening indication
that the Government, is continuing to press the
matter to the limits of American jurisdiction. Per=
haps more will come out at the trial.
Dr. de Galindez, a lecturer at Columbia Univer-
sity and a strong critic of the Trujillo dictatorship,
vanished from New York 14 months ago. The pre-
sumption is that he was abducted to the Dominican
Republic in a plane piloted by Murphy. Subse-
quently Murphy himself disappeared. The Domini
can government produced a "suicide" note alleg-
edly written by a Dominican officer who said he
killed Murphy in a fight. The State Department,
In diplomatic but nonetheless unmistakable lan-
guage, has branded this note a fake. Nothing has
been heard from the Dominican Republic except
efforts by assorted spokesmen to- shrug off the
concern over Dr. de Galindez and Murphy as Com-
munist-inspired.
A steady drumfire needs to be kept going until
there is satisfaction from Ciudad Trujillo on what
appear plainly to be two cases of `murder of per-
sons under. American protection. The Washington
trial will be worth watching, for any additional
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