LATIN AMERICAN GENERAL WRITES OF 'LAST CAESAR'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200580011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 12, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

PAI SVILLE, OHIO
TELERAved For Release 199
e. 19,695
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Date: MAR ?12 1964
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America), people like voodoo dagger novel and an eve, - open- 1m"nts of the Haitian A r m v
practitioners and cannibals are er for those unfamiliar with police forces, the Cuban armed
as potent in affairs of - -state' Latin politics. Here are some forces, the Guatemalan secret
as any trained diplomat. They of the comments this Latin service and sundry other
know how to fight and survive American makes of his fellows: institutions. That sort of thing
in our political jungles. Out- is pretty. common in L a t i n
siders - like the Ce 1 In- "Latins sense 'a weakening America
telligence Agency, with all its leadership. They are realists in I'.
Undercove
r: warfare in the
tram' ed personnel, equip do such matters. A faltering lead- ESPAILLAT -? C H A R G E S Caribbean the kind that Tru-
mcnt and lavish budget do er is abandoned and his former without naming names; t h a t lilloindulged in before, and that
not." supporters turn on him, eag-sane State Department offic- Fidel Castro indulges innov,=-
s er to be in on the kill. So it ! ials and members of the Unit-1 is "'gutter fighting," he says.
The words are those of a man, ;s with the animals of the ed States Senate and House1i "But he adds, "the 'United
who ,,fought in Latin Amer J- and Latin politics yre 1werc ;riven fortunes by Trujil-;I States does not like to "get
lea's politicial jungles: a diplo- best: described in this analog to and were entertained in the doss n ? and root in the gutter,
mat art intelligence agent an" Dominican Republic by what It prefers to deal with goverii
.
''THERE IS 'a broad element he calls "semi - senoritas".in ment officers, embassies and
inte~, natonai?conspirator, , and a
int iat j'onal aide it one of the of fakery and charlatanism -in: order' to have them speak welf' politicians rather than w it h
-the makeup of most, L a t i n of him and to obtain polit union leaders, students or pea-
most rdtilcss dictators ever to -leaders. There has .to be, Flam- ical_favors from the U. S. sants.
tread the Western Hemisphere. boyance is expected of Latin
politicians. He mentions.. several '. Con- Espaillat goes on to say that
They contain a lesson that gressmen who spoke glowingly the CIA depends too much on
could well be learned by Amer- For their part, the p c o p 1 e of Trujillo' but without linking Amer`' ans - who stick out
icans wilo wonder why every respond . overwhelmingly to them directly to any accusation `like "totem poles" in L a t i n
thing seems to go wrong fort successful' politicians and ' t America rather than on local
of bribe - taking
the United 'States, in Latin; power itself.. Support for.
America." .. agents; few of the U. S. agents
leader becomes passionate He says that if an honest and who organized the invasion
Gen, Arturo Espaillat tic 1 adrilation. Eventually, the leacl-'thorough inses'iE'ation were ,.of Cuba in 19(il could even
er begins to take the adulation made into Trujillo s bribery :speak man whose words .they are?j; serious'. of Americans a scandal would passable Spanish; and
writes them in a book>recentlyi Y what local a ents
result, t} g
published by the Henry Reg What is not it does have oo much moll understood b ~, e
y
..very Co. of Chicago' - Tru y ,
U. S: officials is that in (hose According to the author making them greedy enough to
jillo: the Last Caesar." trick or betray their American
explosive countries ... virtual the' State Department took art
ly every man above the age incrimin'atin file which did;
aristocracy of the Do oiiiinican pa5masters.
A MEMBER of t t in y six is a potential or pract c- name naives and sent it from!
Republic and a West Point 1 ing conspirator, espionage Santo Domingo. to Washington
graduate, Espaillat was under- I agent, terrorist; guerrilla, `prop after Trujillo was assassinated.
c in 1961. Influential people in'
secretary of defense, consul' agandist and so forth. It is Washington, he charges, are
rai in New Xork
t en
, these people who make and
e
- and secretary of state security . covering it up, .
under the late and. gen- break governments and theyt
'Herally unlamented Rafael Tru- are` constantly reshaping the
jille 4I world.
Latin America is a. jungle. An
the former head of,the Domini
can Secret Service says th
gene(; Agency, does not kno
flow to thrive in that jungle.
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