SITUATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (REPORT #271 - AS OF 4:30 PM EDT)

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2006
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• Publication Date: June 9, 1965
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OCI No. 1943/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
9 June 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Situation in the Dominican Republic
(Report - as of pm
The increasing tempo and bitterness of rebel
verbal attacks against the US and the Organization
of American States (OAS), accompanied by threats
of violence outside of Santo Domingo, demonstrate
a growing desperation and belligerency on the part
of rebel leaders.
The anti-US propaganda barrage appears to be
motivated by the rebel assessment that the US Gov-
ernment is no longer considering the Guzman formula;
hence there is no use prolonging their attempts
to divide the US Government from Ambassador Bennett,
who the rebels claimed had been deceiving the
President. Therefore the US Government is now
being condemned as a whole. Contributing to this
change may also be the increasing influence of
extremists who prefer violence and defeat to com-
promise.
Rebel leaders appear to be deeply concerned
that the three-man Organization of American States
Committee may find a political solution that will
attract support or at least the acquiescence of
a majority of Dominicans. The number and intensity
of attacks by the rebel radio, and especially
yesterday's heavy-handed attempt by CAamana to verb-
ally bully the OAS Committee, may well reflect the
desperation of the rebels as they see the committee
moving calmly ahead talking with all elements.
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Meanwhile, the OAS Committee is continuing its
efforts to determine Dominican public opinion con-
cerning a possible solution to the crisis. Yes-
terday the committee returned to the capital after
a day-long session in Santiago where it listened to
delegates from numerous groups representing a broad
cross-section of opinion. According to the US Con-
sul in Santiago the dominant group--in terms of time
and oratory that appeared before the committee-
represented Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party
(PRD). He also reported that the same PRD-directed
hoodlums, who previously disrupted talks with the
UN observers on 27 May, unsuccessfully attempted
to intimidate non-rebel.groups.
Loyalist air force officers claim that rebels
may try to assassinate one of the ambassadors of the
OAS, apparently outside Santo Domingo. The rebels'
purpose would be to show that loyalist forces cannot
guarantee security in the interior of the country.
However, loyalist forces could also have planted
this information to justify large-scale arrests
outside the capital.
A Dominican military officer in Santiago claims
that the military in Santiago has received orders
to pick up all Communists and revolutionaries in
and around Santiago before 14 June.. This is apparently
designed to forestall any demonstrations or violence,
marking the sixth anniversary of the 1959 Cuban-
supported invasion of the Dominican Republic. Army
and police units have also been instructed to main-
tain a constant alert and quell any disturbances in
the cities or the countryside.
Both the Uruguayan Foreign Minister and the
President of the Uruguayan National Council of Gov-
ernment have privately disassociated themselves
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from the views expressed yesterday by Uruguay's
UN representative. The two Uruguayan officials
informed the US Embassy in Montevideo that UN dele-
gate Velasquez had exceeded his instructions in
claiming that if the original entrance of US forces
into the Dominican Republic had been illegal, the
legality of the situation was not improved by the
internationalizing of the military forces in the
Inter-American Peace Force. Velasquez had also in-
formed the Security Council that "deliberate vague-
ness" had been used in labeling the "extremists"
involved in the Dominican Republic; he warned that
similar "vagueness" could be used to justify inter-
vention in any other Latin American state. The US
Embassy comments that Velasquez might have exceeded
the intention of his government but his instructions
were sufficiently vague to permit him to take the
line he took.
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