SITUATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (REPORT #272 - AS OF 7:00 AM EDT)

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 10, 1965
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OCI No. 1944/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
10 June 1965
Situation in the Dominican Republic
(Reporl #272 - As o 7:00 am EDT
The increasing belligerence of rebel statements
over the past few days is leading to a growing edginess
in the Dominican interior as the 14 June anniversary
date approaches.
The Imbert government is reacting by increasing
its security precautions. Imbert told the US Naval
Attache yesterday that he has ordered a nationwide
roundup of potential troublemakers to begin on Friday.
They are to be kept under arrest until the middle of
next week, said Imbert.
Conditions remained normal in the important city
of Santiago yesterday, although a rumor was circulat-
ing that the Communists intend to organize a general
strike. Also, pro-rebel propaganda is being circulated
in the city by a front organization calling itself the
Patriotic Constitutionalist Front. Handbills put out
by this organization are calling on the people to
"fight for the constitution."
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US Government officials who visited the city of
Consta.nza in the central part of the country yesterday
report that the area is politically calm at present,
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are continuing serious problems.
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Yesterday the rebel chamber of deputies--the
remnant of the congress elected with Bosch in 1962--
passed a resolution containing bitter anti-US in-
vective. The resolution was then cabled to 36 Free
World Legislatures in Latin America, Western Europe,
and Asia. It bitterly condemned the "contemptible
US military aggression" and the alleged US effort to
destroy constitutionalism and democracy in the Do-
minican Republic. The US goal, according to the
statement, is the establishment of a "puppet govern-
ment serving US interests."
The increasingly ugly and open manifestations
of anti-US feelings in the rebel area was exemplified
yesterday in the hostile temper of the crowd which
threatened three US soldiers as they were being es-
corted out of rebel territory after having been held
there overnight. The members of the crowd, which
reportedly numbered nearly a thousand, shook their
fists and screamed "Go home, Yankee murderers."
Meanwhile, the Imbert government may be hurt
badly by the publicity which is now beginning to come
out regarding atrocities committed as recently as
last week by some military personnel of the loyalist
forces. Havana Radio was already carrying the story
last night and US press reports claim that United
Nations officials have be gun an investigation of the
charges, the US Embassy have
confirmed ories an on Tuesday the embassy re-
ceived a comprehensive and detailed account of
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"executions" by loyalist military personnel of
between 27 and 39 Dominicans, mostly civilians.
The embassy comments that the press is likely to
concentrate on these recent atrocities by loyalist
forces without counterbalancing them with accounts
of rebel atrocities committed in the early days of
the insurrection.
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