"COMMENTS ON THE JULES DUBOIS ARTICLE ON THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (WASHINGTON POST, 2 JUNE 1963)"

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• Publication Date: June 4, 1963
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CINTEAL IFTELLIGENCI AGEIICY
Office of Current Intelligence
4 June 1963
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE USKMNDUR
BUEJI: Comments on the Jules Dubois Article on the
Dominican Republic (Washipgton Post, 2 June
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1963)
1. Dominican President Juan Bosch usually has ap-
peared reluctant to take a categorical public stand
against Communism. He says that he regards the threat
to his regime from rightist and political opportunist
elements as more immediate and more dangerous. He
states that he does not want to "become another Eetan-
court" and risk an open fight with the extreme left at
the came time that he in absorbed in getting his admin--
istration's program under way and countering the at-
tacks from the right.
2. On one occasion Bosch has publicly attacked Com-
munion. on 12 May he addressed an audience of artillery-
school graduates in the following words: "At the pres-
ent time there in no alternative in Latin America. There
is now no place for personalistic dictatorships such as
the one which we suffered. There is only one dilemma
and it is quite clear: either democracy or Communism.
And Communism means death, war, destruction, and the
loss of all our possessions." This statement, subse-
quently well publicized by the Dominican press, comes
the closest to being an outright rejection of Communism
since his 27 February inauguration.
3. President Bosch has not publicly defined his
Q$ t.tQ.non the Castro regime. He appears to have stu-
diously avoided clearly delineating his views on this
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v%Zn an ges ne ourna aped for television presen-
tation in Argentina and Uruguay, Bosch was asked for his
"concrete position" and that of his government regard-
ing future relations with Castro's Cuba. Be answered
simply that "the Dominican Government does not maintain
relations with the Republic of Cuba."
4. In regard to US Ambassador xartin's relation-
ships with members of the former Council of State,
several factors appear to condition his somewhat limited
relationships with theme men:
a. They are no longer serving is any official
capacity in the Dominican Government and therefore are
out of his realm of legitimate contacts other than-on a
strictly informal or social basis;
b. The two former members with any immediate
political potential, General Antonio Iabert and Donald
Reid, are implacable foam of President Roach, and too
frequent contact with them could carry extremely tin--
fortunate consequences for the ambassador's relations
with Bosch;
c. Though decidedly pro-US, former -unci
members Imbert, Reid, and Luis Amisma--the latter In
currently inactive politically--sr. capable of strategic
antigovernment alliances for purposes of political ad-
vantage and are disliked and distrusted by important ele-
meats of the Dominican populace, including the armed
.f orces .
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