SITUATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (REPORT #276 - AS OF 7:00 AM EDT)

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• Publication Date: June 14, 1965
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OCI No. 1949/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
14 June 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Situation in the Dominican Republic
(Report #276 - As of 7:00 am EDT
Loyalist forces, bolstered by their success-
ful mass rally yesterday, are alert for possible
pro-rebel disturbances today, the sixth anniversary
of the Cuban-backed attempt to oust the Trujillo
dictatorship.
Yesterday's mass rally sponsored by the Imbert
regime was impressive by any standard. There were
many thousands of participants--some sources es-
timate as high as 30,000--and the overwhelming pro-
portion of them were of the working class. In numbers
and in the enthusiasm of the participants, the rally
rivaled the large rebel demonstration of 5 June.
The rebel rally which had been scheduled for
the same time yesterday as the loyalists' was post-
poned until today. It is to be under the auspices
of the rebels' political organization--the Front of
Democratic Constitutional Organizations--and is likely
to feature memorial statements on the martyrs of 14
June 1959 as well as expressions of popular support
for the present rebel struggle.
There are other signs of growing friction be-
tween moderate rebel leaders and the pro-Castro Four-
teenth of June Political Group (APCJ) and other
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extremist groups, which have become increasingly
blatant in their activities during the past week.
Further signs of rebel disunity were apparent in
the unauthorized visit to the top OAS representatives
in Santo Domingo on Saturday by the president of the
rebel senate and a rebel cabinet officer. They
stressed their great desire for an early political
settlement, suggested that revisions of the 1963 con-
stitution could facilitate a solution, and said that
they agree that the solving of the Communist problem
is a necessity. On the latter point, the two rebel
emissaries told Secretary General Mora and Ambassador
Bunker that they would need US and OAS help on the
Communist issue, since "the constitutionalist side"
lacks the necessary experience.
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