DOMINGO 'FRAUD' CRY RINGS FALSE TO MOST LATINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100440010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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,.errs , mer,can correspondent
Hearst Headline Service
NUU, une 7-Communist radio and
newspapers throughout the hemisphere -and the world
'--are crying' "fraud" at the national elections here,
but they are making an *untisually buffoonish case for
ttadio Havana, for example,
beamed out charges of "fraud,"
claiming that the indelible ink
,used ' to prevent double voles
could "easily be removed with
soap and water."
This reporter who dipped a
,,;finger to test the "stickability"
of the Ink-and the 1.3 million
Dominicans who went ' to' the
polls surely know better.. The
'Ink, for all the soap and water,
stays and stays.'
IN ADDITION, a patch of
hair was shaved from each vot-
I is wrist to prevent ' double
voting, which the Cuban radio
'does 'not mention,
I A spurlouty' story, also broad.
cast by Radio Havana, has two
election delegates'. "kipnapcd
and murdered" and found dead inua comment that Balaguer
in the Haina River. It says the was "right-wing." But his MT(
two men were guarding boxes' colleague painted a different
containing 40,000 Haina 'ballots.picture, more colorful, but far.
Haina has a population of;from accurate.
'something under 25;000-if you; Thousands, of voters were
count the dogs-and since dogs bought, by partisans of,vlctorl
and t.hose.under 18 cannot Vote,~oas presidential e n n d i ci a t e
the Radio Havana charge has Joaquin Balaguer, said the hIun.
brought chuckles to many Do-!s;arlan news agency. And hun-
minieans. dreds of police dressed as civil-
,. --&:U, rcn, Uruguay, thc;ians voted, said MTI.
'Communist "EI Popular" writes1
, '^t "the murderers on the jfay., I N FACT, the army and pa.
Troll of the Central Ir ugation'lice are barred by law frnnl.l,
A=-
Bosch a prisoner and.prevented,sentatives of anti-Balaguer par-
him from moving outside his;,ties at every. polling place to
home." -1 '-' '' i'. ?? . make sure the 20,000 at Sand ized.'I pro' Ve r f` 4 Q o1 Ii+ R W" n
date, did stay In his house fo.
,fear of assassination, but, hi;
friends have made clear that i
was from enemies of the ex.
tremc right and the extremeleti
that he- anticipated trouble.
Hungarians , got on-the-spo
accounts from two correspond
ents, one 'from ' Hungarian
Radio-TV, the other from the
news agency "MTI." But the
d
ifference, bt th
;eweene two re-
porters' work is a study In
miniature of the continual
schisms In .'the communist
world,,
As received here from Ameri-
can monitoring stations abroad
the TV-radio , man reported
f'resident-elect Joaquin Bala.
guer far ahead 'in the voting'
FOIAb3b
'Cuba's "Presna Latina" .ancl
'other Communist organs in the
hemisphere say President John-
son's congratulation of provi-
sional President Hector Garcia.
Gocloy was evidence of Ameri-.
can support of Balaguer.
But it -is well known here
and elsewhere in Latin Amer-
ica that Garcia Godoy is a con- I
firmed middle - of - the - roadei-l
who is responsible for kickingll
out of the Dominican Republicli
en. Elias Wessin y Wessin,
[no of the most virulent mill-
ists. And he scrupulously 1f
tayed.Impartial in the elec-h
? Il
THE MOST,powerful of, the
ommunist parties here,. the
4th of June Movement, failed
von to elect a deputy; and its
oor, showing means It can no
ongep be ? a certified political i
arty'.,,,,,,;;