SITUATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (REPORT #290 - AS OF 7:00 AM EDT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00472A001400050040-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: June 28, 1965
• Content Type: IM

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OCI No. 1937/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
28 June 1965
Situation in the Dominican Republic
Report 29 _ As o 7~ am EDT
The north central part of the country continues
tense as small bands of terrorists remain at large.
The terrorists who ambushed police officers at
the small town of Pimentel on Saturday night were ap-
parently the survivors of the group which attacked
police and army posts in nearby San Francisco de
Macoris on Friday.
San Francisco de Macoris was described early
last evening as having the appearance of a ghost town.
Police and military cars were rushing through the
streets on occasion, but private cars and pedestrians
were seldom to be seen, even prior to the imposition
of the curfew at 7:00 pm EDT, The local military and
police chiefs informed a US Government official yes-
terday that they believe there is still a large num-
ber of rebels on the outskirts of the town. The
police chief estimated that there may be as many as
between 200 and 300. He added that four unidentified
rebels had been killed yesterday morning near the town.
There were other minor ddistruban.ces on Saturday.
The police fired at a group throwing rocks at the
police post in a small town just outside Santiago
and one person was killed. Three others were wounded
at a similar incident in Santiago itself earlier in
the day. At Licey, just south of Santiago, a Dominican
air force patrol arrested three would-be terrorists as
they were holding a meeting to discuss an attack they
planned to make on Santiago early this week. The air
force patrol found a quantity of Communist literature,
but no arms.
State Dept. review completed
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Antonio Imbert and several of his colleagues in-
formed Ambassador Bunker on Saturday that they were
very disturbed over what appeared to be the beginning
of a campaign of sabotage against government installa-
tions. They reported that an explosion in a boiler
at the government-owned Ozama Sugar Mill on that day
had killed two and seriously wounded two other Do-
minicans. They fear that this incident may signal a
general campaign of sabotage.
The Imbert government has found the recent ter-
rorist activity cause for increasing its pressure
against the United States and the Organization of
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American States for permission to send its troops
into rebel territory to "clean out the nucleus of
infection." The Imbert government has sent four
increasingly strident notes to the special OAS com-
mittee in the last several days on this issue.
Junta member Zeller has repeated the veiled threat
to let it be publicly know that, although the
government is fully capable of "restoring order"
in downtown Santo Domingo, the OAS is preventing
it from doing so and therefore must bear the re-
sponsibility for the acts of terrorism and sabotage
that are taking place.
Meanwhile, former President Joaquin Balaguer
flew from his place of exile in New York to Puerto
Rico last night. He expects to return to the
Dominican Republic today. His unexpected trip was
brought about by the sudden worsening in the con-
dition of his aged mother. Although the trip is of
a purely personal nature, Balaguer is one of the
country's leading political figures and his return
will almost certainly cause a political stir.
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