DOMINICAN PROBE HOLDS D. C. LAWYER FOMER FBI MAN INDICTED AS ILLEGAL AGENT FOR TRUJILLO

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300200020-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 14, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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After his arraignment, o i Joseph Frank (center) maces and Walter Gillerist.. Frank is accused of failing to register
District Court with his a o net's, Edward L. Carey (left) with the Justice Department as agent for a foreign principal.
spUresmetr lain.
Dominican
Probe Holds
D. C. Lawyer
Former FBI Man
Indicted as Illegal
Agent for Trujillo
By lvrorrey Dunie
Albon B. Halley
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Reeort9r.
John Joseph Frank, 42, Wa
ington attorney and fora
FBI agent; was indicted by
Federal grand jury yester
on~"charges of. acting illega
as all agent for Generalissi.
Trujillo and the Dominic i
Republic.
The four-count ilidigtnle
charged Frank with violati
of the Foreign Agents Regis.
tration Act of 1938. by faith
to register with the Justice
partinent as an agent for
foreign principal.
. Frank was indicted by a D
trict Court grand jury whi i
reportedly has bcen secret
investigating the disappe
ance of Jesus Maria de Gall -
~dez, a Columbia: Universi
professor, and Gerald L. M
phy, an American pilot.
De Galindez, 42, a bitter crit c
of Dominican strong man Tr -
'jillo, disappeared in Marc ,
1956, in New York City. 1GIu -
phy, 23, a pilot for a Domi -
can airline, was last seen
Ciudad Trujillo in Decembe , :1956.
'esli
Fran
a former lawyer for gatinn, cxplained the Gov- Franklin D R
l
..
ooseve
t Jr
the op secret Central.- IpteT1 eriunent's request by telling and Washington A t t o r n c y
1gel ce Ageflcy, testified before the Court the case "has inter- Charles Patrick Clark were
the grand Jury March 12. national ramifications." registered with the Justice De-
Two counts of the indictment Lenvin said the Government partmciat last .year as Domini-
charged that Frank, also known knew that Frank n-iade "fre- can Rep iblic advisers but with-
as "' o'hii ne," had collected quent trip's" to New York, Floe- drew threi' affiliation last Feb.
information for and "soliditedlida and the Dominican Repub- 28.
from the Dominican Republic' Frank.might "Tice." Lenvin also zinc linked the de Galindez
since May, 1954, without regis- said Frank maintained a home disappearance with the re
teri>,ig as a foreign agent. in Dominica. Ported death of Murphy, a
The other two counts charged Carey entered a strong pro- Eugene, Ore., flier, in the
Frank with reporting informa- test. lie told the Court that Dominican capital.
jtion to and soliciting cotpen-'Frank, as a lawyer and former Murphy vanished in Ciudad
BI
,. 1
. agent, uia-t'rank, who lives at 7608
pensed and disbursed" money`Columbi.a Pike, Alexandria,
for Trujillo and the Domini-;was freed. under $10,000 bond
can government in the Dis-!short]y before 6 p. m. and
trict and elsewhere in the Unit-'left the District Courthouse
ed States. referring all queries by news-
The fourth count of the in- men to his attorney.
dictment did not mention thej justice Department spokes-
Di
t
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t
r
s
c
but charged that Frank
acted "at the order, request
i and under the direction of"
Trujillo "within the United
porting information. in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.j Dominican. G o v e r n in e n t
Frank, a Georgetown Uni-. spokesmen denounced the story
versify academic and Law 'Arrested On Warrant as ridiculous, School graduate, was arrested FBI Director I. Edgar Jioo Explaining the disappearance
about 4:30 p. in. by three FBI ver 1T1s"1t1`[S*ili cf ]Murphy, Dominican Attor-
agents as he was walking with tion Frank's activities net' General Francisco E. Boras
his attorney, Edward'L. Carey gaii in "mid-1954" The basis~saicl last January that Murphy
at 17th and I sts. nw. for Frank as?'"rie t was a Fed 'alaliarently had been murdered
eral warrant obtained here lhv a Dominican airline pilot
Arraigned, half an hour later; May 13, Hoover said. who later hanged himself in
before District Court' Judged Frank, a native of New his jail cell and left a note
Richmond B. ISeech, Frank en-
tered a plea of innocent.
Judge Beech set bond for
Frank at $10,000- after Carey
about the circumstances of thej
de Galindez disappearance in!
New York.
Dc Galindez, a onetime
Dominican resident, left hiss
Columbia University class-!
room at 9:30 p. m. on March,
12, 1956, and vanished.
men, who said the grand .jury] The Life account linked a
investigation is "continuing,"?March 12 flight Murphy made
said each of the four countsnfrom Newark, N, J., to a Domi-
Britain, Conn., was a 1938 grad-
uate. of Georgetown and ob-
tained his law degree there in
1941, the Justice Department
vigorously opposed the Gov-' Frank joined the FBI on July.filto iviurpny's disappearance.
bond.
'International' Case
agent until May 13, 1949. Since
ithen he engaged in private
Nathan B. Lenvin, specialCl
tice and also w for
b e f o r e returning_ o
conducting the grand .jui?.y iii-11953, .I u s t i c e Department
blaming the killing on a per-
sonal feud.
The State Department has
asked the` Dominican Republic,
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