HIGHLIGHTS OF SPECIAL DOMINICAN REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 27, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

Crisis Under the Palms
Highlights of Spe a
Dominican Report
The crisis of the past two months in the Dominican
cism of United,States policies and actions at home,
in Latin America and around the world. A major part
Republic stirred remarkably sharp reaction and criti-
of this reaction was engendered by a dispute oKer .
actually did. ,
what the United States said it was doing and what its;
in Washington and their effects in Spnto Domingo.
'
nation and reveals new information about decisions
Correspondent Murrey Marder dramatically recon-
structs t'q chaos and confusion in that Latin American
In five pages of today's Outlook section, Diplomatic,
? On the day before U.S. Marines were, dispatched'
into the Dominican Republic, an, opportunity was,
ineffective leader.
public's "best chief of state so far," Donald Reid
Cabral, and partly because Bosch was'regarded as an
because the, revolt was launched against the man,,
whom U.S. officials regarded as the Dominican Re-
States was unsympathetic td the rebels who said they
wanted Juan Bosch returned to power. This was partly
These`, are among the highlights of his -report:
? From the moment the revolt began, the United
use of American troops. It was disregarded.
vailable to effect a settlement, thereby avoiding the
? The contention that the Marines were sent into ,
'controlled" the rebel forces .needlessly aroused fears
? ' Claims , by the Administration that Communists,
anto Domingo.
akeover than about the dangers to Americans' in
ere talking more about the fear of a Communist
roops were sent, the operational levels of government.
an civilians there is 'now in question. Before the,
he Dominican 'Republic primarily to protect Ameri- ..
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o work its will even in 'ono, of the sma est'n U
? The: events, of the last, two months have w der,
shed the limitation on the ability of the United States;
he entire affair Was the creation and use in a hemi-,
pheric nation of an international peacekeeping force:?
0 The two juntas that have taken power in the
Dominican Republic since the revolt began ,were both
stablished with the encouragement- of U.S. advisers
on the scene under instructions from Washington.
? What may be the most important achievement, of
hey actually did so.
ontrol of the rebel forces but never any evidence that'i
hroughout Latin America that the United States was
averting to the days it supported right-wing dictators.
4ost observers of the revolution believe that there
ere degrees of danger the Communists might take