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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Content Type: NSPR

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WA;SIIINCJTON-.-A think f:ictory with 'inks
O Wn4ingtoti trained revolntionaries wito
helped precipitate theDotnleican crisis. This
? was the 4'M arxist-Lkinint.M." Center of .fte-
e.earch In Economic and St)cial Development
In Santo' Doinimmi,,o or CEDES, as 1.1 was known.
Until the overthrow of Dominican President
Juan -HoSch in 1963, CIDES Mrictioned as a
Caribbean yersion of the Institute of Pacific
.secretly implementing . contro-','?
versial? State Department policy.
? Details ' about ciDES were disclosed in
.testimony,viven the Senate internal Security
? Subcommittee by General Elias Wes.sin Y.
Wesslni former head of the Dominican Ott-
rebel ; forces. In a hearing Oct. 1, 1965,- "
.named ? this organization :is one of 40.
!,centets. tor "Communist , and Marist-
Leninist:. _indoctrination": operatleIC 1.tider
CIDES was fthariced in :part by the
. Department through its foreign, aid
branch, the Agency. for. International" ,
s,,elopftiont.,- Also contributiug'suMS-Wett the,
Paryln. Foundation and
,Ford
annl niut tea11y AS One ? of , the. Sttisteti,
.:Ortniefit's moft ? important so-Called
Vale arms.
? ,? . ,
Gen,?'...iVessin told Senators that he' had:
,,'Opermed i special unit that infiltrated cIDFS
:anti ,the othr Red indoctrination ee,ntei:11.
Said these rep ter indoctrinnied -their
studefit, with hatred of the "Yartkdrii,:,,,'; The ,
(enters alt:0 tfrIndit prop;:q,Anti;4, !-AlbotagYinti
litihita IV)' .taetli's? 'The Dominican leader'
report:- on those cent eri; to offloht
of thu Drina:dean governTnepL,
Copies Of some of those rocorts were kept
in Ceti'. Weiz;sin's ?taco' hut he was -pre-
.
...vented born taking' them to this country by
? the ..ibrapt manner that U. S.officials forcibly
ekiet0d, him from Santo Domingo. ?
Teacrs at CIDES?included Pose)); Angela
Wotan.. and Sacha Volnian, Wet lint said.
that Alio ,C.orannunists practically .ereitioiled
,' the Bosch tovernnient throap11 Wotan, who
wms1O.yisirs secretary 19 Vicente tomribardo.
? Inbledatio,' the Mexican Communist labot lead-
..er;: Wotan had offices in all..the State
en-
torprlbe's, aecording.. the Don !Mean.
..1r,eneral.? ? ? ? ? 7
-Vothari, a Russian-born Runumnian refugee
who 1n. riow A naturalii,ed. U.: S. citizen,' ?
? tums hail links with the Central Inielliick)nce ?
AcencY, As aniviser 10 Bosch; he w ts en-
: misted bY the Washington Administration with,
1-the soidalimtlon of the bomitdcan net-mobile
because . he was a so-railed
COnlOOMItit," However, after the 19,13 coup
Joppicitrioseit, Volinan was kicked out
of 'Santo Dorn him because of his Tilarxtst
?Ation5i, : 'When' :Gen. Wossin was .itAked ? by
' Vitheoirmlittoe Cense) j:ty Sourwine whether ?
',.110-?c0i.14dere4Nolitinn WaS ctinlinttni-4, 1.10
? .
renflot I:- ? , .
. "In MY ? country there is a sayini, that
. ?
irtys
ted. Me With whole you. gci,. and I will
? tell you who you are,o
Volman's links with the CIA re-
ceived publicity hod year when tt,weS. learn- ??
ed dial CIA money wa.i being channeled to .
time Institute for international Labor lie-' ????
;search, a t55-exampt so- tattled "educa-
tional" orOnti,atton In Now York. yelmart
:;eCITIO talrer Of UP' histinite. Nor-
inan Thonias, ,Veter,1 in i.74:W bill at 171111(11(1.113., for
the ?Preritieney, is chairman' of Its tmoard
of directors.
On Sept, 3, I 9G.1, the Now York Times +Its- ?
:closed that the In sti lu e had received in
1963, a 'Istim Of $05,000 from the .1. M. Kaplan
-Fund, Inc. of Now York, also a tax-exempt
? fund. 'At the sante Utile, the Kaplan .Funci"s
report to the Internal 'Revenue Service for
1963 -revealed that the . Valid received a
, mysterious sumo f $395,760 listed:it-a ,it?on
t?ribution" under the headiv "rtt.etpts net
reported elsewhere." On Aug, 31, 196.1,
Iii hearings 'before a House Select Subcom-,
mittee on Small Business, officials from the
tmni nal Revenue Service had testified that
the Kaplan .Futat's taxexemption had not ?
been revoked because the .,Foundation was
? ' used as . a secret conduit' for CIA funds,.
?? Rep, ? wrIght ? Patan'ei: ,(D-Teit.),-. sub-
committee.' Chairman, said that ? the CIA
.i;.had informed his Subcommttlx.e, that the.re-
,Aationship between the, 'Kaplan Plaid and the
CIA tr4Yerea the iVius.:.19-1116,1. _The .
inesc,apable concluSton Is that this was one
tho6 "In and out trausactions"..WIth CIA
mil going to: the ? Kaplan Fund and from there ?
A110 linstiinte. With Which Vol-
roffn;Wfm$'01nit4c.ited.::," ?
. . .
? F,'Und .memey., helped finance Vol- ,
Mitt .:ia? Other State Department ."gray opera.
- tions,!!, Otii? Of ?.(lieilo'.;;Vas t.1-io predecessor ?
to ? ymEs, the San.4ose Inr4ltutc?of..Polltielt1 '
EduO'ution ? whirl opened Its doors in.. Oce?Ale ?
Rich?In October of ..1960.?'Voliriatt was
.stalle(1, as a director of, the Ciefta.;
Institute.: which trained, learierfi for reVolu-
Winery. ? Latin American . Pan-tier:. This
Dist itute's staff, as well :is its faculty which
incleded. Juan I losely moved to Santo Domingo ,
after Washington helped ? arratw,e? thin a s-
sas Of ? . ?
eeliriltri4 to iftilio'tHate, ? fernier 'Pres-
: Went. of Costa Rica, the San Joso lust hub,
Whial said Was, .Nupportp,4.1. by Mr Em-
hissy. end the; Shite. Department, :issisted
those ?Parties Which "have the?characleristic
features witch make. ,them r identical Inn
.doctrine and homegenous in pull Lea and
social at?ttudes with Russian cOmmuntsni."
? 1..11ato Went on to explain that ilme.-e 'Parties
''hi he ?great care not to appear Communists.,
Mid ,even, from time to ttme;.make sporadic ?
and ? tentative rhetorical .anti-Communtst
de. mon stration s.'' lie. said that-01 denier r ati
-parties, opposed to the-Marxist rogirne in ?
? Cuba wore ,excluded from thIS offshoot of
Norman Thomas's New York ?Institute,
Significantly, Plate deelari?.d. that .the prin-
chile- of organ:,,ing Socialist parties from,
different ? countries ? IS practiced :out. other
continents. ,Sources lii Washingim.'S intelli-?
geneo community have informed this writer
that these international Sociali0 o+.erations
are coorkihrited by .0:vni .wino haS
charge of the unvouchered funds-for:CIA's
laudeSti no oper.itions., Meyer Was kiriner.,
ty president or- time United Wo:,?itl? Federal- ?
,:istS, a Soclalint,briented lobby gcoup pushing
world government. Ile ks k-noy.11 to 1,10 part .
'6f ? the- CIA wing' that Is imptinn,A.,tiner the
St;:ite, Dopartment's .policy So-
cialist or "third force",i'egirnk?S ttilo
inmost likely to "inodornii;.e" poorer or less
developed .countries..
The co,,?ert operations of international.
Socialists in and outside' of the W,tsimingion ?
Adinittift ration can only be unrier.tood when
We t5 lire that the goal of b;ith S