THE KAPLANS OF THE C.I.A.

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NOVEMBER 24, 1972
VOL. XXII No. 9
THE KAPLANS 0.F THE C.I.A.
One of the most bizarre accounts of covert CIA
financing, espionage, Communist activities and
murder involves Jacob Merrill Kaplan or his nephew
Joel David Kaplan.
Jacob M. Kaplan was born in Lowell, Mass. on
December 23, 1893, the son of David Kaplan and the
former Fannie Gertz (a 1938 biography refers to his
mother as Faiinie Levin). After attending public
schools in Massachusetts, Kaplan spent ten years in
semi-tropical Latin American sugar-producing
countries. On June 20, 1925 he married Alice
Manhcim and they had four children: Joan Felice
(Mrs. C. Gerard Davidson), Elizabeth (Mrs. Gonzalo
Fonseca), Richard David, and Mary Ellen.
? In 1920 Jacob Kaplan organized the Oldetyme
Molasses Company and served as its president until it
was?merged with Dunbar Molasses Company in 1924.
In 1928 he sold the entire company and became
president of J.M. Kaplan and Brothers, Inc. and later
the Kaplan Holding Corp. In 1934 he established the
Molasses Products Corp. He and his half-brother,
Abrim 'Isaac Kaplan, became millionaires known as
the "molasses kings."
In the hearings known as Appendix IX of the
Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the
U.S. Congress, page 1085, it was revealed that J.M.
Kaplan was affiliated with the American Committee
for the Settlement of Jews in Biro Bidjan (in the
Soviet Union). This organization was cited as a
Communist front ? which had its own worldwide
prppaganda campaign for the purpose of gettihg Jews
to emigrate to a province of the Soviet Union. The
organization was subsequently cited as subversive by
an Attorney General of the U.S.
By 1932 Jacob Kaplan was president and chairman
of the board of Hearn Department Stores, Inc.; he
became president of the American Dry Ice Corp. the
following year, and in 1945 became president* of
Welch Grape Juice, Inc. of New York. He was also an
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official of the Ronier Corp., Jemkap. Inc., and
Southwestern Sugar and Molasses Co., Inc. He was a
director of the New Mexico Lumber and Timber
Company and president and director of the J.M.
Kaplan Fund, Inc., which he originally started in
1942.
Jacob Kaplan received considerable publicity when
it was disclosed that through his J.M. Kaplan Fund,
Inc. of 55 Fifth Avenue, New York. City, at least a
million dollars of CIA funds were dispensed to such
leftist organizations as the Institute of International
Labor.Research, Inc. This outfit which has also been
known as Labor Research, Inc., maintains an office at
113 East 37th Street, N.Y.C. It was headed by the
late Norman 'Thomas, Chairman of the Socialist Party
of the United States, at the very time CIA turned
over nearly $1 million to it for the purpose of
financing what the New York TIMES of February 22,
1967, described 'euphemistically as "17. left-of-center
parties throughout Latin America."
Secretary?Treasurer of the Institute ? of Labor
Research was Sacha Volman, who set up radically
leftist "institutes" in Costa Rica and the Dominican
Republic. According to Otilia.Ulate, former President
of Costa Rica, the San Jose Institute supported only .
those Parties which "have the characteristic features
which make them identical in doctrine and horno-
genous in political and social attitudes with Russian
Communism." Ulate said that all democratic parties
opposed to the Marxist regime in Cuba were excluded
from this offshoot of the Norman Thomas and Sacha
Yolman Institute.
Through the Dominican Institute, using CIA funds,
Volman promoted political careers for such key
Communists as the notorious Juan Bosch. Sacha
Volman had close ties with comrades throughout
Latin America and was neck-deep in the Marxist
'Leninist "Center of Research in Economic and Social
Development" at Santo Domingo. This organization
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The Dominican Republic:
Rebellion and Repression
by Carlos Maria Guti6rrez
A Hungarian adventurer who has created at least
seventeen political parties with CIA funds; the
American Institute for Free Labor Development, or-
ganized by Lovestone and Meany and administered
by top executives of W. R. Grace & Co., Pan Ameri-
can Airways. Anaconda Copper. etc.; a murder plot
with assassins recruited by the CIA and approved
by Kennedy in the White House?these are ingredi-
ents of the almost direct rule of Washington over the
Dominican Republic. Gutierrez names persons, or-
ganizations, dates, and places in this comprehen-
sive portrait of the country from the U.S. invabioii of
1965 to the present.
This is a vivid first-hand and thoroughly re-
'searched account, describing both the oligarchy and
the growing opposition to it.
Translated by Richard E. Edwards. LC 72-81763,
144 pp.
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?By RAGNAR LANGE
This is a very unsettling book. Just
as we are being told that the Vietnam-
ese War will soon be over and that
we can look forward to a generation
of peace; Abraham Lowenthal of the
Ford Foundation puts us on notice
that such a rosy forecast may be just
a few shades too optimistic.
'The reason: a detailed analysis of
the 1965 U.S. intervention in the Do-
minican Republic has convinced him
that the landing of 22,000 American
troops in that small Caribbean nation
was not the result of a coherent U.S.
policy but rather the logical outcome
? Of a series of preconceptions, misun-
derstandings and ineptitudes that op-
erated in lieu of policy.
.LOWENTHAL MAINTAINS that the
conventional foreign policy model
which considers foreign policy occur-
rences W be the "purposive acts of
? national governments, conceived as
-unitary rational agents" is far removed
from reality. Citing U.S. participation
-in the Dominican crisis as an example,
he argues that the very outcome to
the situation which U.S. officials sought
to avoid ? ("another Cuba") was made
: more probable in the long run by the
course of action which the U.S. gOvern-
mat adopted in order to prevent it.
U.S. government activity, therefore,
. was not only irrational, it was anti-
rational.
Such errors occur, according to Low-
enthal, because of the ingrained ten-
dency of American foreign policy of-
ficials to see present events in terms
of past experience. The Dominican Re-
public was seen as potentially "another
Cuba" rather than as a nation with
unique history, idiosynchratic problems
and a political climate very different
from that prevailing in Cuba at the
time of the 1959 Revolution.
. In order to make the Cuban analogy
complete, the only element lacking was
someone to play the part of Castro,
and so it must have been to Washing-
ton's infinite delight that, a week
into the crisis, President Johnson's spe-
cial envoy, John Bartlow Martin, dis-
covered that Constitutionalist leader
t.Col. Francisco Caamano Deno, could
be cast in the role. Caamano, Martin
I reported back to the White House, was
capable of becoming "his country's
Castro."
As if this possibility (or fantasy)
were not sufficient cause for alarm,
the CIA was in the meantimeAsligirr
porting on the achiPlareltVe
Communists who were considered so
dangerous that Ambassador Bennett
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THE DOMINICAN INTERVENTION. ,Johnson had been able to consider his
By Abraham Lowenthal. Harvard. 'request for armed intervention: he also
246 pages. $10.95. gave them orders to shoot "if neces-
sary". When the White House was in-.;
? - - - - formed of Bennett's directive it sent -
kept- pleading for U.S. Marines to land him a strongly worded message re-
in order to prevent their seizing the minding him that only the President
country. The reason the activities of could order the participation of U.S.
these Communists was so salient in troops in offensive action. But by then
the Washington discussions, Lowenthal more than 12 hours had elapsed and it
explains, was that the CIA, being blind was purely fortuitous that a large-scale
to all cokirs other than red, could not bloodbath had not been precipitated in
provide any information on the leading .the interim.
figures in the Constitutionalist group The Ambassador's readiness to take
because they were non-Communists and initiative in turning American guns
had therefore never come to the atten- the e
tion of the CIA Station. Consequently, on Dominican citizens was unfortu-
when asked to report on the situation, nately not matched . by any zeal for
attempting in promote a peaceful solu-
CIA operatives began .churning out
lengthy accounts of the reactions and
plans of members of the various
Marxist groups who, as it turned out,
had practically no connection with the
pro-Bosch military movement beyond
trying to figure out how they could turn
the situation to their advantage.
(Happily for them, by landing the Ma-
rines, the U.S. government provided
the answer to their question.)
Lyndon Johnson, having just re-
'canny initiated a massive build-up of
American troops in Vietnam, decided
that he could not risk the threat of "a
Communist takeover" in the Caribbean.
The preponderance of information on
Dominican Communists plus a number
of reports of atrocities supposedly com-
mitted by the Constitutionalist military
rebels ? all of which Lowenthal found
to be completely unsubstantiated ?
were sufficient to convince him that the
U.S. was about "to lose the Dominican
Republic to Communism," and he
therefore authorized the disembarka-
tion of the Marines.
THE WORD "authorize" is import-
ani. because ? and this is one of the
most frightening revelations of this
book ? the Marines had apparently
started to land prior to the President's
decision. Senators who are interested
in limiting the President's authority to
send U.S. troops into foreign countries
without Congressional approval might
also investigate what appears to be dent" but rather to assumptions an
U.S. ambassadors' authority to call attitudes that are deeply entrenched in
them into a foreign country without any the U.S. foreign policy-making appar-
approval, Presidential, Congressional. atus. Consequently, what happened in
or otherwise. ? the Dominican Republic not only can,
In the case of the Dominican Re- but, in all probability, will happen
public it seems that Ambassador ? again.
Bennett not only managed to get A generation of peace?
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tion to the crisis. Lowenthal cites 10
specific instances in which the Embassy
expressly turned down opportunities to
"participate in the Dominican crisis in
relatively minor ways which might
well have obviated the need later felt
for militery intervention." The 'U.S.
refusal to let the Embassy be used for
talks between the rival factions, Ben-
nett's decision not to speak by telephone
with Juan Bosch, and a series of other
puzzling actions which Lowenthal at-
tributes to the U.S. desire to "minimize
American involvement" had the cu-
mulative effect of creating a situation
which President .Johnson perceived as
requiring massive U.S. military inter-
vention. All of which seems to boil
down to the fact that in the Dominican
case U.S. foreign policy actions were
one hundred percent self-defeating.
Now that LBJ is back at the ranch,
can we breathe a sigh of relief and
reassure ourselves that the days of
anti-rationality are behind us and that
future U.S. foreign policy activities
will bear more relation to the objec-
tives they are supposed to achieve?
According to Mr. Lowenthal, the an-
swer is a definite no.
He concludes that the intervention
in the Dominican Republic "should not
be attributed mainly to individual in-
competence, momentary fright, mere
accidents of timing or personality, nor
to a particular ambassador or presi-
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? When Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was gunned down on May 31, 1961.
many people thought a new chapter would open in the history of the
Dominican people.
But H years after the dictator's death a man from the same mold
still holds the presidency: Joaquin Balaguer. a political veteran who ?
has been described as more of a Trujillo than Trujillo himself.
lit his six years of rule. Balaguer has used the same tactics of
terror and corruption as those which earned Trujillo's regime
notoriety as one of the most hated dictatorships in. Latin America.
While the CIA and U.S: State Department brought about the.
execution of Trujillo. they succeededin maintaining his henchmen
in the army, police and ruling class.
The very same people who worked with Trujillo continue to fill
top jobs in the armed forces, government ministries and diplomatic'
services. What is more -they have' won back their, confiscated
property. . ?
Trujillo. who had ruled he country over 30 Years, was murdered
by some of his own political allies to prevent a popular revolution
against the dictator. Trujillo was replaced by Balaguer, who was
supported by the U.S. But the Dominican people soon began to
rally against the continuation of the dictatorship. General strikes
and mass demonstrations from November 1961 to January 1962
forced Balaguer out of office and made gains in democratic rights.
hi elections held in December 1962; Juan Bosch, candidate of the
liberal Dominican Revolutionary party, won on a program of strong
social reform and, the next year, he proposed a new reform con-
stitution.
But on September 25, 1963, Bosch was overthrown by a military
junta led by Donald Cabral and Gen. Elias Wessin y Wessin. The
Dominican people began a powerful struggle to defeat the reac-
tionary forces but in April 1965 thousands of U.S. Marines were
sent into the country to protect the military regime. After one year
of fighting the "constitutionalists" were forced to sign a "peace
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pact" drawn up by the U.S. and elections were held, controlled by
? the Pentagon and U.S. State DepartMent, which resulted in the
"victory" of Balaguer over Bosch.
Balaguer has again- established a regime of terrorism and
brutality.
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and massive peasant 'evictions.
The beneficiaries of these policies, as always, are the large U.S.
corporations which dominate the country. The most brazen of these
:has been the Gulf and Western Company whose interests have been
exempted from taxes for 20 years by Balaguer. Gulf and NVestern
have been given almost 1 million square kilometers in the eastern
part, of the country through its local front "Corporacion Financiera
S.A." The c ompany controls many Dominican industries, especially
tobacco.
Other companies are also cashing in' on Dominican resources,
while 50 percent of the people remain unemployed. Meanwhile
there continues to be a drop in agricultural production and exports
coupled with a major jump in imports: particularly of luxury goods.
The overseas debt has risen to 5400 million. ?
Balaguer 'gives support to ultra-right groups which are carrying
out a violent campaign against the poor in areas which backed the
constitutionalist revolution of Col. -Francisco Caamano in 1965. a
struggle that was smashed with the aid of U.S. troop. Au armed
group kndwn as "La Banda" carry out day and night house searches,
kidnaps and murders of opposition leaders.
The 1965 revolution, besides demonstrating the people's
willingness to fight for their rights, also allowed the' security *police
to identify left militants. Since then, the government has been
systematically trying to assassinate leaders of the 1965 struggles.
Left forces ineffective
The hard-pressed Dominican left seems unable to make an ef-
fective reply to the imperialist plan to make the Dominican
Republic a strategic strongpoint for colonialism, Puerto Rico style.
There are more than ten left groups each of which accuses the
others of complicity with the CIA and engages in nothing more
active than pOlemics.
Meanwhile Balaguer has stated that he may run for the
presidency again. If he wins it will be his third term in office since
1966 when by means of fraud, police terror, and Organisation of
American States diplomacy, he first was placed in what he calls the
hot seat.
It looks as though the heat is affecting him. He already has told
his supporters to put forward his application for the 1974 elections.
By openly entering the lists; Balaguer has increased political
tension on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the 1965 revolution.
In 1972 the Dominican Republic finds that time has stood still for
four backward decades. But things have changed in Latin America
after Cuba and Chile.
The Balaguer government, with massive U.S. backing, claims it is
enjoying "unprecedented prosperity." Grave contradictions,
however, lie beneath the surface of Dominican society. Seven years
ago they came suddenly to the surface, and all the Americas were
disturbed by_the_shock waves.
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A Short History
of CIA Intervention
in Sixteen
Foreign Countries
In July, 1947, Congress passed one of the most significant
pieces of legislation in the history of America in peacetime. The
National Security Act of 1947 created The National Security
Owned, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff,, the
United States Air Force and, not least of all, the CIA. This act
? provided the Agency with five principal duties:
1. To advise the National Security Council on matters concern-
ing intelligence.
2 To make recommendations for the coordination of such intel-
? ligence matters.
3. To correlate and evaluate intelligence relating to national
security and disseminate it to other government departments.
4: To perform "such additional services of common concern as
the National Security Council determines can be more efficiently
? accomplished centrally."
5. To perform "such other functions and duties as the NSC
would direct."
In 1949 Congress passed the Central Intelligence Agency Act,
allowing the- agency-to disregard laws that required disclosure
of information concerning the organization, to expend funds
? ? without regard to laws and regulations governing expenditures
with .no other. accounting than the Director's vouchers, and to
mate contracts and purchases without advertising.
With such unprecedented au-
thority, with unlimited access to
. '
money,. with liberty to act with-
out regard to scrutiny or review
by either civilian or governmental
organizations, the CIA has become a self-
contained state. One observer ranks the CIA as
the fourth world power, after, the U.S., Russia, and
? China.
Partly because of the CIA's special "secret"
status and partly because of the laziness of the press,
She total history of CIA intervention in foreign coun-
tries has never been reported. What you read instead
are jragments?an attempted bribe in Mexico last
Jody, an assassination in Africa last November.
What emerges here is an atlas of intrigue but
not a grand designi. on the contrary, the CIA's
record is 'as erratic and contradictory as that of
any bureaucracy in the Federal stable. But you
do begin to comprehend the enormous size of the
CIA and its ruthless behavior. The rules permit
murder, defoliation . and drug addiction for -
Political ends. Look at the record:
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?:1,it- may be. -A few extremists
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- most Latins are. worried by
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:-;Even though most Latin
. commentators predicted that
:?;A new U.S. foreign aid pro-
.gram would be worked out,
'? they were appalled by the
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- U.S. Senate's disapproval of
2'. theforeign assistance bill and
further retreat into isola-
tionism that it signals. ,
--t'icm Mexico, which pride's
Fit'Self On never having relied
on -U.S. foreign aid grants, to.
"?, Brazil, the No. 1 recipient in
. Latin America, the. reason-
reaction to the Senate
Vote on foreign aid was one of
shocked disappointment.
ee The newspaper 0 Estado,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, used Pres-
..e.lclent Nixon's comment that
c. the vote SIRS "a highly irre-
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:I of its editorial analysis. ?
e.,E1 Sol, Mexico City, said
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wrath, is to structure the
economy of each country in-
dependently of North Ameri-
can, Soviet or Chinese aid. No
great power is and has been
unselfish and the one that
does not want a slice of the
profits, wants -political con-
cessions." - ? . ? -
? 0 Estado declared that the
U.S. Senate suspension of for-
eign aid had'. the effect of
thwarting President Nixon's
foreign policy, which, the pa-
per said, "Was conceived in
terms that could meet the de-
mands of pacifist, neo-isola-
tionist and ;anti-inter-
ventionist circles, so
eloquently represented by ac-
tivist members of the press,
the academic community and
the Senate." . ? ???
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0 Estado said that the
United States is running the
risk of . alienating what
friends it has .left in the
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world. ? ?
"Decisions. like that of ,the
Senate contribute to the eva-
poration of credibility in U.S.
promises and guarantees and
undermine the very founda-
tions of United . States lead-
ership." - ?'
The bitter comments of
newspapers like .0 Estado
and El Sol were. typical of t112
reactions of those who are
generally Considered friendly
toward the United States. ?
On the other hand, men like
Juan Bosch, former -president
of the Dominican Republic
who -has. been speaking and
Writing against the. United
States for a good part of the
last decade, professed plea-
sure at the possibility that
U.S. foreign aid would end.
Latin America "has. been
Suffering an aid (program)
that has only served to sus-
tain, guarantee and strength-
en the oligarchies," Bosch
said; ,
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'Bosch's bias Is not hard to
understand if one remembers
that, despite his earlier con-
nections with a Latin Ameri-
can institute for political edu-
cation-Supported by the Cen-
tral InteflineAgeneyUS
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inter Mifion in tiie'Dbininican
Republic in 1965 thwarted a
revolution intended to return
him to the Dominican presi-
dency. ?
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.. But what virtually all Latin
Americans thought they rec-
ognized in the Senate vote
Oct. 29 was a return to U.S.
isolationism. As. the Latins
see it, the United States has
'convinced itself that the mili-
tary and financial responsi-
bilities it assumed during the
protracted conflict, long
known as the 'Cold War,' are
tpo great, and it is dropping
out of the foreign aid race.
The end of or a -drastic
slash in the U.S. foreign ad
program would not mean the .
? economic collapse of Latin
:America. In fact, recently re-
leased statistics on the .dis-
tribution of developinent
assistance to Latin America
for .the 1961-1970 period sug-
gest that most of the $12.133
-billion in U.S. aid to the henii- .
sphere, nations in the decade
of the Alliance for Progress
was in form of tied loans.
.Tied loans are those made
for the purchase of U.S.
goods and services, that is to ,
say things that represent jobs
for U.S. workers and sales for '
U.S. business and industry. A .
report prepared by the staff
Of .the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, indicates
that those U.S. government
loans amounted ? to $10.862 ,
billion over the 10-year peri-
od. The grants and "soft"
loans for Latin America to-
talled $1.280 billion.
A Spanish version of this
dispatch appears . elsewhere
on this paeo.. -
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military intelligence, thef,,-Mand the
? evaluation and interpretation of each.
The record was bad: intervention in
the Dominican Republic (a deed later
repudiated by President Johnson
because, he noted, it was based on an
intelligence error); Vietnam. policy;
and a series of intelligence reports on
"missile gaps" that .appeared most ;
dramatically at budget time.
The proposed cure is valid only ?
because it will represent a new look at
an old and necessary practice. The
proposed plan is to install a civilian
chief of military intelligence. n an
effort to streamline and improve. The
plan also calls for retention of the
military chief of intelligence with
access to the Secretary of Defenge.
It's probably naive to assume the
intelligence stuff will be substantially ?
reduced, though for the . sake of
appearances a stab at a tighter
budget will likely bemade. Reason for
the reorganization, as reported, is
that the apparatus is too big, too
costly and too ineffective.
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Justice William 0. Douglas in a
? new book criticcizes President
Lyndon B. Johnson'S decision to
send U.S. forces to the Domini-
can Republic in n65 as "an ob-
noxious form of intervention"
from which hemisphere rela-
tions have yet to recover.
Douglas cites the decision as
an illustration of the central
theme of the book: That the hos-
tility of the United States to re-
voluntionary change condemns
Latin America to "an intolerable
status quo." .
The book, "Holocaust or Hem- )
isphere CO-OP: Cross Currents
?
in Latin America," is the third
of four volumes the 72-year-old
justice is wrting on dissent and.
relnllion in the modern world.
The 216-page book will be pub-. ? ?
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lished by Random House onOct.
4. ?
.? The second book, "Points of
Rebellion," published in Febru-
ary 1970, was designed to ex-
plain the causes of political dis-
sent in the Unitld States. Doug-
las's ? suggestion that violence
"may be the only?Ziffective re-
sponse" to intolerable conditions
set off demands in Congress for
his resignation.
In his new book, Douglas at-
:? tacks the influence of the Cell-
. ? . /
tral Intelligence Agency and
."conservatism" in Washington's
.policies in Latin America.
?Douglas sees the U.S. inter-
vention in the Dominican Re-
public, ostensibly to crush a
Communist uprising, as one of
two crucial moves that under-
mined Latin American confi-
dence in the political and social
reforms promised by President
John F. Kennedy's Alliance for
? Progress program.
- "No -principle of international
Jaw,'' Douglas writes, "permits
one main 'to invade another,
without a state of war between
the two.'
"What the United States did in
the Dominican Republic was,
like our action in 'Vietnam, an
obnoxious form of intervention
in-the internal affairs of another
nation." ?
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coMplisionents of Mr. Hall hi his service to
the N.C. Prim macentical Association stress-
ing that he had done things not to seek laic-
oa,nition but for the good it would do the
association and others.
George P. Hager, Dean of the School of
Pharmacy of UNC-CH, pointed out that as a
E trident at urc, Bob not only learned to be
a good phearnaciat but also a good leader.
"In his work with the state association and
as a trustee of the university, Bob is not only
able' to define the problems but actively
works for their solutions. His works conform
with his worda", said Dr. Hager.
The presentation of the award was made
by B. Cade Brooks of Fayetteville, immediate
past-president cf the N.C. Pharmaceutical
Association.
The Moatar-and-Pestle Award is presented
annually for distinguished service in the
fields of pharmacy, public health, education
and welfare.
Three other state winners in other fields
from Mocksville were recognized:
Miss Jo Cooley as the "N.C. _ Handicapped
Woman of the Year."
Dr. Clyde Young as a former "Veterinarian
of the Year."
Dr. Ramey F. Kemp as a former "Chiro-
practor of the Year."
W..7. Smith, Eaecutie Director of the N.C.
Pharmaceutical Aasociation, read messages of
congratulations from Dr. William Friday,
President of the Uniaersity of N.C., and
George Watts Hill, President of Central Caro-
- lina Bank and chairman of the board of
trustees, UNC-CH.
The career highlights of Mr. Han are AS
follows:
A native of Wayne County and resident
of afocksville since early youth; edUcation in
the Mocksville Schools and at the University
- of North Carolina. Member of Phi Delta Chi
Fraternity.
Returned to work with his father at Hall
Drug Company upon graduation and is now
owner and operator of the pharmacy.
Served in the Army Air Force during World
War if.
In his community he has served as secre-
tary and vice-president of the Jaycees;
Chairman of Heart Fund Drive; Director of
the Rov.,an-Davie Heart Association; Director
of Mocksville Rotary Club; Member Davie
County Morehead Selection Committee; On
committees of the area Girl Scout Council
and Uwharrie Council for the Boy Scouts;
Director of Northwestern North Carolina
Economic Development Commission. He is
presently a member of the alocasville Savings
and Loan. and a member of the Board of the
Davie-Yadkin-Wilkes Health Department.
In the First Baptist Church he has served
as trustee and chairman of the Board of
Beacons as well rs president of the Brother-
hood; he is currently serving as a member
of the Finance Committeee.
Mr. Hall is past-president of the North
Carolina Pharmaceutical Association and the
. North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research
Foundation. He continues to serve on the
Board of Directors of the Foundation. He is
Chairman of the Consolidated Pharmacy
Student Loan Fund; member of the Acacl-
. emy of Pharmacy,_ and a charter member of
the Academy of General Practice of Thar-
ta?-ey.
Ild was recently elected for a second term
as Trustee of the Consolidated University of
North Carolina and serves on the Committee
on Health Affairs which encompasees Schools
of Pharmacy, Dentistry, Public Health, Medi-
cine, and Nursing.
Mr. Hall is resoried to the former Sara Hope
Fitchetteof Dunn; they have a danghter, Hope
Fitchett, and two sons, Robert Buckner, Jr.
and Carl Stacy.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE. DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
HON. HERMAN EADILLO ? -?
Or 1,Tilw YOin,c
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, July 27, 1971
Mr. BADILLO. Mr. Speaker, ti ants
of the last G years have proven .4. the
unwarranted and ill-conceived Ution of of the United States in the ba,mini-
can Republic in 1995, and the 18-month
Military occupation which followed, was
a tragic mistake of the greatest propor-
tions. The chaos; corruption, political in-
stability, social and economic disloca-
tions which have ensued are almost im-
possible to describe. The suppression of
civil liberties, the stifling of the voices of
constructive dissent, intrigues, deaths,
and disappearance are occurring in the
classic manner of a dictatorial regime.
It is reported that, in recent years, more
political murders have occurred in the
Dominican Republic. than in any com-
parable period during Trujillo's dictator-
ship. In 1970 alone there were some 186
political murders and 30 unexplained dis-
appearances.
In a recent issue of the New York Re-
view of Books the noted Latin American
authority, Norman Gall, has reviewed
two books relating to the U.S. interven-
tion in tile Dominican Republic and its
aftermath. Moreover, Mr. Gall presents a
very penetrating and well-documented
study of the current reign of terror in this
Caribbean Republic and tile complicity of
certain U.S. personnel in sonic of the
events connected with it.
A particularly frightening feature of
this terrorism is the fact that many of
the victims are the poor, repressed in-
habitants of Santo Domingo's barrios.
Furthermore, the executions and other
acts of terrorism are frequently con-
ducted by roving, paramilitary "death
squads" organized by the armed forces
and the police?organizations receiving
U.S. training and equipment.
Mr. Speaker, I believe that Mr. Gall
has performed a valuable Service in
bringing this situation into focus and in
revealing to the public facts which have
been hidden too long. His well-written
and perceptive essay and review should
be given our fullest and most careful con-
sideration?particularly as we will soon
b. acting upon the Foreign Assistance
Act. I present it herewith for inclusion
in the RECORD and commend it to our col-
leagues' attention:
SANTO DO:MINGO: THE POLITICS OF TERROR
? (By Norman Gall)
? We know that many who are now in revolt
do not seek a Communist tyranny. We think
'it's tragic indeed that their high motives have
been misused by a small band of conspirators.
who receive their directions from abroad. To
three who fight only for liberty and justice
and progress, I want to join in . . appealing
to you tonight to lay down your arms and to
assure you that there is nothing to fear. The
road is open to you to share in building a
Dominican Democracy and we in America are
ready and anxious and willing to help you.
?Lyndon B. Johnson, May 2, 3955.
President Johnson's military intervention
in, the Dominican nepublic in 3965 was as
momentous as it was cruel and politically
mistaken. We can see it, along with our en-
largement -of the Vietnam war in the same
year, as part of a disastrous expansion of the
powers of the Ameriean Presidency and of iteos
sense of "global responsibilittea." When a. t ?
force of 23,000 US troops landed in Santo / -
Domingo in May to reverse the course of the
Santo Domingo civil war they served to rescue
a repressive military establishment from an STATINT
apparently successful popular revolt that was
trying to re.setore constitutional rule. We can
now see that the high priority the US gave to
social progress in Latin America, an idea im-
plicit in the Alliance for Progress, has been
replaced .by what appears to be an expanding
and recurrent pattern of control by terror.
Professor Jerome Sister's political study of
the 1965 intervention and the eighteen-
month US military occupation that, followed
Is derived from his use, on a not-for-attribu-
tion basis, of "a great number of papers,
memoirs, and documents which are not now
In the public domain," as well as off-the-
record interviews with US and OAS officials.
However, all this new material adds little or
no support to. the official rationale for the
Intervention?that the Dominican Republic
was at the brink of a possible Communist
takeover. Instead it provides further evidence
of double-dealing and cruelty after the US
troops were sent in.
Because he relies so much on classified of-
ficial documents, and because of his other-
wise limited knowledge of Dominican affairs,
Slater tends at times to bend over backward
to give credence and legitimacy to the official
US view in a number of, at best, highly dou-
btful instances. Nevertheless, he concludes
that although "there was seine risk that out
of an uncontrollable revolutionary upheaval
Castroite forces might emerge victorious . .
the risk was not yet sufficiently great to
justify the predictably enormous political
and moral costs that the intervention en-
tailed."
The effect of the intervention was to re-
store to power in Santo Domingo the political
apparatchiks of the long and brotol dictator-
ship of Rafael Leonides Trujillo (1930-61).
Of the costs Slater writes at the end of his
book:
". . . the steadily worsening political ter-
rorism . has recently [1970] reached crisis
proportions. Searcely a day goes by without a
political murder, a "suicide" of a jailed po-
litical prisoner, ,the disappearance of -a po-
litical activist, or, at the very least, a case of
police harassment of the political opposition.
aIost of the victims are Communists or Cas-
troite radicals, PRD activists [of ex-President
Juan Bosch's Partido Revolucionario DOMDZ-
'10E0201, or former constitutionalists, although
recently even anti-Balaguerists on the rigiit
have been attacked.
"While there has been a -rise in leftist
countet-terror, with machine-gunnings of
isolated police and aoldiers increasingly com-
mon, the main culprits appear to be wire-
generates in the police and, to a lesser ex-
tent, the armed. forces. It is not clear what
[President Joaquin] Balaguer's role is in
this, but although he Ilea condemned what
he calls the "uncontrollable forces" behind
the violence and on several occasions has
shaken up the police leadership, there is a
growing feeling among moderate Domini-
cans that he is encouraging the rightist ter-
rorism or, at best, has been inadequate in his
response to it."
In recent years there have been more p0-
.1itical murders in the Dominican Republic
than in any comparable period during Tru-
jillo's dictatorship, with the sole exception of,
the reign of terror that followed the swiftly
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Intervention and Negotiation:
The United States and the Dominican
Revolution
by Jerome Slater, _
with a Foreword by
Hans J. Morgenthau.
Harper & Row, 254
Barrios in Arms:
Revolution in Santo Domingo
by Jose A. Moreno. .
University of Pittsburgh,
226 pp., $8.95
Norman Gall
We know.that many who are now
in revolt do not seek a Communist
tyranny. We think it's tragic in-
deed that their high motives have
been misused by a small band of
conspirators, who receive their
directions from abroad. To those
.who fight only for liberty and.
justice and progress, I want to join.
in ... appealing to you tonight to ?
laY iivin your arms "ana to assure
you that there is nothing to fear.
. Tice- road is open tcryou to shire
? in building a Dominican Democ-
racy and we 'in America .are ready
and anxious and willing to help
ytp;
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?Lyndon B. Johnson
May 2, 1965
--
President *Johnson's military inter-
vention in the Dominican Republic in
1965 was as momentous as it was cruel
ind politically mistaken. We can see it,
dong with our enlargement of the
Vietnam wai in the same year, as part
rtf a disastrous expansion of the
powers of the -American Presidency
tnd of its sense of "global responsi-
bilities." When a force of 23,000 US
troops landed in Santo Domingo in
ktay to reverse the course of the Santo
Domingo civil war they served to
rescue a repressive military establish-
nent from an apparently successful
popular revolt that Was trying to
restore constitutional rule. We can now
tee that the high priority the US gave
to social progress in Latin America,
in idea implicit in the Alliance for
Progress, has been replaced by what
tppears to be an expanding and recur-
rent pattern of control by terror.
D
rofessor Jerome Slater's political
study of the 1965 intervention and the
.eighteen-month US military occupation
that followed is derived from his use,
on a not-for-attribution basis, of "a
great number of papers, memoirs, and
documents which are not now in the
public domain," as well as off-the-
record interview. s with U$ and 'OAS
officials. However, all this new material
adds little or no support to the official
rationale for the intervention?that the
Dominican Republic was at the brink
? of a possible Communist takeover.
Instead it provides further evidence of
double-dealing and cruelty after the US
troops were sent in.
Because he relies so much on classi-
fied official documents, and because of
his otherwise limited knowledge of
Dominican affairs, Slater tends at times
to bend over backward to give credence
and legitimacy to the official US view in
a number of, at best, highly doubtful
instances. Nevertheless, he concludes
that althOugh "there was some risk
that but of an uncontrollable revolu-
tionary upheaval Castroite forces might
emerge victorious ... the risk was not
yet sufficiently great to justify the
predictably enormous political and
moral costs that the intervention en-
tailed."
The effect of the intervention was to
restore to power. in Santo Domingo the
political apparatchiks of the long and
brutal dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas
Trujillo (1930-61). Of the costs Slater
writes at the end of his book:
... the steadily worsening political
terrorism ... has recently [19701'
reached crisis proportions. Scarcely
a day goes by without apolitical
murder, a "suicide" of a jailed
political prisoner, the disappear-
ance of a political activist, or, at
the very least, a case of police
harassment of the political opposi-
tion. Most of the victims are
Communists or Castroite radicals,
PRD activists [of ex-President
Juan Bosch's Partido Revolu-
cionario Dorrinicano], or former '
constitutionalists, although re-
cently even anti-Balaguerists on
the right have been attacked.
While there has been a 'rise in
leftist counter-terror, with ma-
chine-gunnings of isolated police
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' the main culprits appear to be STATINTL
unregenerates in the police and, to
a lesser extent, the armed forces.
It is not clear what [President
Joaquin' Balaguer's role is in this,
but although he has condemned
what he calls the "uncontrollable
forces" behind 'the violence and on
several occasions has shaken up
the police leadership, there is a
growing feeling among moderate
Dominicans that he is encouraging
the rightist terrorism or, at best,
has. been inadequate in his re-
sponse to it.
In recent years there have been more
Politica! murders in the Dominican
Republic than in any comparable
period during ?Trujillo's dictatorship,
with the sole exception of the reign of
!error that followed the swiftly
crushed invasion from Cuba in 1959,
organized by Fidel 'Castro.' The Santo
Domingo newspaper El Nacional last
December 30 bled a page and a half
of newsprint with the -details of
186 political murders and thirty dis- -
appearances during 1970.2 The Domin-
ican terror resembles the current wave
of political killings in Guatemala (see
my "Slaughter in Guatemala,' NYR,
May 20, 1971) in that the paramilitary
death squads are organized by the
armed forces and police, which in both
cases over the years have been given
heayy US material and advisory sup-
port. The death squads themselves are
partly composed of defectors from
revolutionary political factions.
The political terrorism in Santo'
Domingo, however, seems now to. be
directed not so much against well-
known politicians, as is the case in
Guatemala. Rather it is used to control
the Santo Domingo flum population.
which was the main force that 'de-
feated the Dominican military in the
1965 revolution. In the proliferating
ramshackle slums and squ-aMr settle*
ments that spread northward from the
ancient churches and plazas of down-
town Santo Domingo', there is con-
tinual patrolling by unformed military
and police units, as Yell as b)
clothes agents on motor scooters. Each
barrio has been infiltnted by govern- '
ment intelligence orga-trzations. '
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THAT hoary chestnut, the
>, "International plot," is pop-
rt up all over In Latin
Arnerica these, days. From
)"Papa Doe Duvalier In Haiti
to President Salvador Allende
in Chile, Latin Americans are
falling back on this device to
help them over rough places.
Dr. Allende has an "imperi-
alist plot" with CIA trim-
mings going strong in Chile. He may be whip-
ping up emotion that he hopes will corry his
already troubled administration to victory in
important April 5 municipal elections. _
But leftists in both Peru and Bolivia in re- ?
? cent times exploitod international plot charges
just before they seized U.S. oil properties. So
',there is speculation that Dr. Allende wants to
annonnce Chile will pay little or nothing for
-U.S. copper properties hc is about to take over
and wants nationalistic feeling running high
when he does.
? - "Papa Doc," Dr. Allende, former Pre.sklent
Juan Bosch of the Doninican Republic., fac-
tions In Costa Rica, sectors of the Pa?narna
press and Ecuaderian officials have rung the
?
changes recently on the plot theme.
No matter how much you may doubt the
curative value of Dr. Allende's Marxist-Lenin-
ist prescriptions for 'Chile's ills, it must be
-recognized that he came into the presidency
' with much personal respect. His manipulations
??of the old plot ploy may very well shrink this
International image.
FATAL P2,00-ES5
"Papa Doc" traditionally punishes "plot-
ters," a process often fatal for those accused,
after he has had a reverse of a spell of in-
creased physical weakness. He Is now attempt-
ing to strengthen Ms regime of terror by
charging 37 people, some of them army offi-- .
core, with complcity in a May, 153% InVasion
attempt. Some of the accused have been in jail
nearly a year In connection with a later Inci-
dent -end their prospects are not bright, judg-
ing from the record. ?
In the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch re-
cently tried to Inflate a localized political con-
flict into a runaway national crisis with 1,
charges the CIA Is responsible for mysterious
murders of Dominican leftists ? with Presi-
dent Joaquin Balague-r in effect winking at It
all. A more firmly-based natkinal quarrel with
Ilaiti stole his thunder, however, ,
WITI-IDRAVAL
?
In February, ? Panama's military rulers,
frankly piqued because U.S. narcotics investi-
gators gathered evidence in Panama without .
official permission, asked our Peace Corps to
withdraw after the U.S. also arrested a Pana-
manian in the .Canal Zone on drug charges.
Press sharpies and the rumor mill said our )
Peace Corps was in a plot with the CIA, and /
connected thq events.
-F.cuadorlans, Including officials, have freely
speculated that the recent concentration of an
extra-large fleet of U.S. tuna boats of? Ecua-
dor ? a circumstance that led to numerous
arrests and a U.S.-Ecuadorian controversy
over sea. limits ? was "plotted" as a provoca-
tion by the U.S. tuna industry.
In a sub-plot, former President Alfredb
Ovando of ?Deliria Is being accused cf having
his long-time partner, the late President Rene
Barrientos?and four others mysteriously mUr-
&red. The charge is that Messrs. Ovando and
Barrientos were in tudeal to smuggle arms to
Israel and Mr. Ovando arranged all the deaths
because he feared the dead four would reveal
this. Mr. Barrientos died in a flaming helicop-
tez crash in. April, 19.
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A Worried Look At The C.I.A..
Frank A. Capell is a professional intelli-
gence specialist of almost thirty year?
istanding. He is Editor and Publisher of
the fortnightly newsletter, The Herald Of
Freedom, has contributed to such impor-
tant national magazines as The Review Of
The News, and. is author of Robert F.
Kennedy ? A Political Biography, The
Untouchables, and other books of inter-
est to Conservatives. Mr. Cape!! appears I
frequently on radio and television, lectures
widely, and never -fea.rs controversy.- He
lives in New Jersey, is an active ('ath-
olic layman, and father of seven sans.
. .
El THE Central Intelligence Agency was
established in 1947 after its wartiine
predecessor, the Office, of Strategic Serv-
ices (0.S.S.), was expoed as thoroughly
infiltrated by the Communists. .Let us
examine some of that O.S.S. personnel.
In 1948, former Communist spy Eliza- -
beth Bentley appeared as a witness before
the House Committee on. Un-American
Activities. On Page 529 of the formal
report of those Hearings is the record of
Miss Bentley's testimony about intelli-
gence she received from Comrades inside
?O.S.S. while she was operating as a Soviet
courier:
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All types of information were
given, highly secret information on
_what the OSS was, doing, such as,
for example, that they were trying
to make secret negotiations with
governments in the Balkan bloc in
case the war ended, that they were
parachuting people into Hungary, '
that they were sending OSS people
? into Turkey to operate in the
? Balkans, and so on. The fact that
/ General Donovan [head of 0.S.S.]
was interested in having an ex-
clOnge between the NKVD [the
Soviet .secret police] and, tile OSS.
That's right, O.S.S. and the N.K.V.D.
were working very close indeed.
When asked what kind of .information
Communist 0.S.Aisyroved ratiR
Halperin gave her to lb forwardeu to the
Soviet _Union, Miss Bentley testified:
"Well, in addition to all the informatio
which OSS was setting on Latin America
he had access to the cables which the OS
was getting in from its agents abroad
worldwide information of various sorts
and also the OSS had an agreement witl
the State Department whereby he als
could see State Department cables o
vital issues.".. Halperin was Chief of th
O.S.S. Latin American Division at th
time when, as Miss Bentley Us sworn, h
was one of her contacts in a SOVi6
espionage ring. ?
Carl Aldo Marzani was Chief of th
Editorial Section of the 0.S.S. Marzai
has been several, times identified. und(
oath as a member of the Communi
Party. Using the most highly classific
information, he supervised the making ,
charts on technical reports for higher cell
Ions of the Army, the Navy, the Joi
Chiefs of Staff, and the 0.S.& Cornra
Marzani made policy decisions and wa:
liaison officer between the Deputy Chi
of Staff of the Army and the Office
the Undersecretary of War.
When questioned before a Congre
sional-Committee, Irving Fajans of O.S.
took the Fifth Amendment rather tha
admit to his Communist Party memb
ship and long history of activities
behalf of the Soviets. Comrade Faj
was a key O.S.S. operative despite t
fact that he was known to have bee
member of the Communist Party and
have served in the Communists' Abrah
Lincoln Brigade in Spain during the ye
1937-1938. ?
Robert Talbott Miller III was anot
contact of Soviet courier Elizabeth Be
Icy. An O.S.S. employee assigneno
State Department, he was Assistant Cl
in the Division of Research. On a trip
Moscow, Comrade Miller married a me
ber of the staff of the Moscow News.
Leonard E. Mins, a writer who h
worked for the International .Union
Revolutionary Writers .in Moscow a
written for New Masses, was also on
staff of the lop secret O.S.S. Coinq
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The suggestion that Justice William
:0. Douglas may have acted .on behalf of
.the CIA in a 1963 trip to the Dominican
Republic could prove more damaging
.
than the attempt at impeachment itself..
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justice's defenders who have hinted at
the CIA activity.
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ipected from his enemies. After all, im-
peachment- is either sustained or
But a link to the CIA might prove
more than a free spirit like Justice
Douglas can bear! - ?
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NI/1111am 0. Douglas today, said
he was satisfied with a congres-
sional investigaton of himself,
"
uo'crestinq
s he considered the Ma-
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'pe.achinent issue closed.
? The justice, however, declined
to ansWer any questions about
:matters contained in a Muse
judiciary subcommittee's
-page report, which dealt at
leuglh with his financial ties to
Albert Parvin and the Albert
Parvin Foundation, an educa-
tional trust financed indirectly
but in large .part through Ne-
vada gambling income.
Addressing reporters and tele-
.- - -
vision cameramen at., the Su-
preme Coull, the white-haired
? justice said "the select commit-
tee has now performed its con-
- .stitutional duties, and I will try
to continue to perform mine as a
member of the court." Sacha Volman, identificu fairly powerful and
as a CIA agent. . and produce what-
Jacobs Ciitielzes PaLIC1 clearly in the report yesterday.
The full Judiciary Committee I think will be a great renais-
tas still not scheduled a meeting The subcommittee also has in sance which will challenge aiid
its files a letter se.nt. by Justice ' invigorate all of civilization :
Douglas on May 2:3, 1N6, ta Coy. ,keep the faith.? -
Luis Munoz Marin .of Puerto I
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Rico. In that letter he appealed
to Mr. Munoz Marin to warn
former President Juan Bosch of
the Dominican Republic about
Mr. Volman, with whom he had
had a falling cut in 19i3-1.
"When Bosch was President, I
was there and he was very
closely tied to Sacha Volman, I
am sure he did not know that
Volman at the time was on the
CIA payroll. \Tolman niay or
may not be at the present time;
but I would. think the chances
are great that he is," Justice-
Douglas wrote.
The Dominican incident came
tsp bccause Republicans sug-
gested that the literacy project
was insubstantial and merely a
front for efforts to get gambling
concessions for associates or
Mr, Parvin. Justice Douglas
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i also made the Charge *Alt Mr.
; 1 Volman in a letter to Mr. Par-
i a vin, one of a thick Stack of
1 .."Dear Al" and "Dear Bill" let-
ters that lie in the committee
files. .
"Most Beautiful Nation"
While ;Justice Douglas was un-
willing to discuss the contents of
the report; he did hold forth on
his views of America; which he,
: called ."the most beautiful na-I
tion in the world, if \VC can just':
keep it from being polluted."
He called pollution "our big
.No. .1 problem," -and said that 1
' "No. 2 is the problem of civil'
;rights." While racial, religious
; and ideological tensions are not
peculiar to the "United States, he
; s:laid, the United States has "the
Bill of Rights and the political
means to solve them."
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JUSTICE DOUGLAS
That project NV2.5 .run locally by
tied, "And so, to this younger
!generation -in whom I have is--
bounded confidence, let me say
this: "In those two areas you can
to consider. the report, which, on
a party-line vote, recommends
against impeachment.
a The subcommittee was criti-
cized today by liberal Repro-
sentative Andrew Jacobs, Jr.
.
(D., Ind.); who introduced the
impeachment resolution in Apail
to keep the matter out of the
hands of a special committee.
which was favored by Republi-
can and Southern Democrats.
"The issue is behavior, net the
interpretations of a document.
and demeanor. Live testimony
under . oath, is indispensable,"
he said. The committee took no
:sworn testimony.
It also developed today that
!Justice Douglas was appaaeutly
\j unaware of the -Central htelli-
genc.,:t Agency's:connection with
an education television literacy
project that the foundation?
which he boaded?worktd on in
the Dominican Republic in 1653.
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Bureau) ? .L:stjee William 0.
:)Jouglas, cleared of impaachment
charges by a special Douse slCo-
committee, said today he intend-
ed to stay on the Spren-,r, Court,
which he said "a.lways has b..2en
and alwaysbe in-
dependent."'
The r12-year-old Dough;s tald
an unusual early morning pres:i
conference on his case, but that
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Justice William Douglas: `'I
halC always been proud to be
a member ef the court."
he had made available to the pa-
nel "all my files relevant to the
inquiry, wit'l no restraint as to
privilege or immunity."
"The commite has nor per-
formed its. ceps titutional tIn .CS
and
and I will try to continue t,.) per-
form nine," Douglas sa:d. read-
ing from a icur-paragraph
pee-
parcil statement. "I have alwuys
been proud to be a member of the
court, 211 Willa I think
all will agree is distinguish?d at
least in one r2F.FeCt?it always has
been anr.1 al7:ays will be stoutly
independent."
Then, in a postscript to his
formal statem,nt, the
bailed justice, NVII0 hIs been
member of the court sinoe
called 'en the nation's youth to
'keep the -faith" and iniliote ''a
great ymmissaiwe" hi the world
by attachi::g the problems of pol-
lution and civil rights.
_
riaises Burger, Illachmult -
Derc4.;lasap-ceared to lay to
xest any rumor Cilia he- might
1:ten dawn flmn the court when,
in ,fl
?
s formal statement, he went
out el his way to .coMpliment
Pre.sident Nixon's two appointees
--Chief justice Warren E. Burger
("a pleasure to work with") and
Associate Justice HaiTy A.
Blackmun ("a 'stout . . .
there's no higher compliment").
The subcommittee's report may
not, however, mean the end . of
the attempt to impeach Douglas.
:House Republican. leader Gerald
It. le:rd (Mich.), who led the of-.
fert: this year, branded the
panel's findings a "whitewash"
and said he probably would try
a.ga next. yclw.
In addition, - .P:eP. Andrew
Jacobs Jr. (D-Ind.), the liberal
who brought the charges against
Douglas last April in a move to
head off a com,ervative-ied. in-
he felt, the sub-
cernmittee must. hold hearings
at which witnesses would testily
uncl.sr cat;la before its work is
The subcommittee's voluminous
report brought to light a num-
ber of details about Douglas'
-controversial relationship with
Les. Angcles businessman -Albert
Parvin and. the Parvin Founda-
tion. One such was a .hint that
the Centrl,s3. Intelligence Agency
may ? have 'trot- involved in
backstage nm-Amverings in the
Dominican Rep-.!blic in the early
:and. that Douglas some-
bovi have Leenlinked to
the agency, at least irdireetly,
Chrough a Parvin. F 13.17,1:-?
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They had asked for a saerlat ? ' NO CuAaots _
inaostp,z;atave cam-a:Ina:a pit iliMiCe Douglas asserted the ,
-Representative Andrew Jacobs, FDI-loali theory octo;..,ei. 11, :
Jr. (0.? Incl.), a liberal, intro- 1[iIi, in a letior .to Mr. Parvin,
duced a successful resolution-of adding thot he had "had nothing
his own which referred lac caw to do with Mock, T_Iobby Baker,
to the Judiciary Committee. or Iteviri'''?11i who will shortly be
ma. J aoweaar alai,: indicted, according to coinmon
comtectiort ?Drawu -..la Tteporl By nrt
ose Par.Jr1
savi
? _ . cob, .
nct he is nti:ut 'el
t a, en .ae issae - '
- a' ? ? * i- I rumor here."
1(lia Baker was indicted _lit'
Which. RejeciN1 Charges ,4_,gain5t. JOshtee ' is also critical ..,-,-f the ,?b- !1January, 1967. Edward Levinson
- of Ju.stice, Douglts's fitaessaa,-;1
..1.1 CC:11- was indicted in May, 1957, and
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raittee for not taking sworn V.:3;
convicted in 1963 on a charge of
timony in public. a .
Centered On Parvin 'skimming' Las Vegas gam-
The justiee,e varied off_the_, tiling profits before paying taxes.
Dy APAA CLYAIM
Washinfiton Macau of 7'Izc Sun
Washington, Dec. 15?Justice 'Mich.), a -dissenter, complained
-. William 0. -Doliglas of the Su- that the committee:should have
preme Coort was working on a taken testimony under oath.
project backed by the Central He said that an inquiry should
Intelligence Agency during a focus on charges that the justice
Latin American trip cited by his Fi3Va legal advice to the . II t ties to A c,., cic ai
6aetal Aihcrt ',arm .F0,.indation: - The report shows- that the.
foes as a cause. for his impeach- Parvin Foundation and to the: . Tia,, foundation, .which he left, Parvin Foundation gave money
tient, a 1101iSu Subcc:ninittco ye- pvernment of, the. Dominican in 1,y, - ) ? , 1 ? . ,'".r? arl b, to the lnter-American Center for
..,J.,1, I am -inn a a , $.- i i, , ? . , ?
Santo Domingo. The money was
to he used in connection with
the literary project, in which
Justice Douglas. took a consider-
able personal interest in 1953,
CIA Secretive
The report accords the CIA's
refusal, despite repeated urging
from the committee, to indicate'
the relation of Sacha Neiman, a'
representative of both the foun-
dation and the inter-Arnerican
center, to the CIA.
Mr. \Tolman, a Romanian
refugee, is identified elsewhere
connected with efforts by orgm- Representative William M. tiee Do'.i2la,s Julie 8, ft-.;C:f:, ITT!. in' the report in terms which
ized gamble.rs'to get concessions McCulloch (11.., Ohio), the tin or the. time Cicvoted to citscass:m-t make it appear thaa he, was f,
there. member of the subtaaamittee, Vietnam, and gave the. jt(stiee . CIA agent, assisting President
The ' subcommittee rejected abstained. He said last week .t'a very simPl.o. recipe for re-a Juan Bosch of the Dominican
this suggestion and v.P. otIaa-s that he fa( erect further probing. solving the Vietnam conflict,". Republic before . the latter's
that v?-ere. rnala? by congressmen The Riboommittoe plainl-Y WhiCh r" illStiCe did not fc'cl overthrow in late 1953. .
free to disclose. ; ' In 19'31 a House *probe into
against Justice Douglas. It said. nepecl that its report would bury'
bench activities were studied in but the CIA-Dorninican
Be-
considerable 'detail in the 024- Public affair- was the most in-
page to the investigators,
page report?thaugh most of the
attention concentrated on his and apparently ?gave the sub-
. ? ?? ? committee the most difficulty.
-port liiCticated today. hepublic. .. ? . ?tween 1-V,0 and 1559. In the same. Lconumic arm Social Studies in
It was not clear -whether Jus- Mr. Ilutchinsen said the corn- period his salary as a .justice
ticc Douglas knew at the time mittee also should. have consich totaled $389,7,19.26, and his net
that the CIA supported the pro- cred Arliethe.r. censure or some income from v.-riting and lectur-
grail-) to teach readir:z ti 0' other action shurt of l'ilpeac:11-. ing was u77,7 10
-educational television. The CI-A, ment--which requires a majeria Among the items disclosed in
thrcitigh various conduit fourida- ty in the House and a two-thircls the report, which Mr. Celier
tions, was supporting iastitu, Senate vote -- was warranted by said was a distillation of 590,C30
ing oft the pi -eject. ? _ ! Case Significzatt ' ,1 committee staff, were:
. . ? I documents examined by the sub-
lions and individualS also work- the record.
hint Of Wrongdoing . He ' said he also thought a - 1. That President. Johnson, cc,
Representative ? Gerald R. case where Justice Douglas cording to a letter from the jus-
Fe (H., i,lich.), the Housr, 11-.. wrote. immigation anthejtics. lice to Robert M. Hutchins',
? nority leader, hinted in Aaril on behalf _of an Iraqi MIA president of the Center for the
that Justice Douglas's 1933 irias whom the justice did not know Study of Democratic Institu-
to the Dominican Republic! were v; -';I; si;silificath ? lions, spent twoheu--, with Rs-
there was no 'c1-able evi- the controversy over the outspo- Sought Loan I foundations disclosed that an-
dence" that he should be in- kenlv liberal, 1m-times-mar-
peached. - Tied. justice, w-ho is 72 and has
The subcommittee rejected al- been on the high court, since
had associat,d v.-ith of "iBut. Pepresentative Ford ha- home at GOOSe Prairie, Wassli.. John Bartiow'Martin, who waS
legations that Jiistice Douala?, 1056'. ..
gamblers, acted improperly?in- tnediatcly denounced the rcoort Mr. l'arvin_ ,7arrl?6 *hair? S. a mha S sador in Santo Dora- ?
eluding giving k. 'al adviac-:- es C "dlit.CF.11" and said' he against ' the reohing innros Ingo at that tinie, said today in a
ID respect to an educati.,nal, would sapport an taaea.:fliaa .or repercussions as a resiit of a telepliona interview that, 'he re-
personal loan from me.' 111.1e. aol,,,, al, taa ?Iva_ a ,...,,,.as.,.,
a,dvocated revolution in his i-e Co,_ - justice then borrowed the inmey l- -"',',.?'".: T-1' ai'''' ''; iilL:iY: '
in ha: literacy project, which
foundation he headed, or hod by another panel when Coa:t'ress
cent book, "Pohlts of Ilebelliera"
as ?- reconvelles January 21.
- Deurilas To P.c.:spa-Lid - from his regular hank.
- 3. That Justice Douglas appar-
. also involved the National AsSa-
2. That Justice Dougla, cia)- other group Mr. \Tolman ran got
proached Mr. Parvin about sa money from the CIA through a
$3,690 loan in 19E3 to buy some.
foundation, the J. M. Kaplan
land adjacent to his swum& Fund
The fetillIciall(I? w-.I3 firl2ruliict,I Justice Douglas's cthice an-, ently believed ? that the ifnat
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indirectlY' hot 11.1?St of th3 Inn.ii--' not:aced he would issue. a state-
; newspaper article, connultiing
ey came from Nn'aC.;?, umbli.n ! ment on the report tomorrow.. him to the Parvin Foomilt,lon
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the view or the subcommittee's Judiciary Committee, .but that Ostrow, of the ? Los Atvres
and to gambling by Ronald J.
stimulated by an FBI len% dea-;
in 'October, 1956, was.
The conclusion ?that the jus- tIolcilsaytomsys had no MTh-ant
income. ?
. ,-
lice had not done wrong?was The report is to go to the.(ull Times,
emocratic majority which in-t panel, also headed by Mr. Cell- signed to force him cut of a!
chided Cheirmaca Emanuel Cel- er, bas nO rileS:',ing f.,:1;ft,..Scpri;:c Court cas-e conceal:Ting!
ler (D., N.Y.) and Representa- this (veelt. It got control of the Fred B. mach, aa asLocia!a,2, of 1
I
tive3 Jsc:---. Broo!:s (.1)..?A?s) issue after a series of. impeach- Bab.al. la (Deny) Bal?aa atra
and 15yron C. Rogers (D., Colo.).' ment ' resolutions wereintro- Bideli, ? in attacking his eau:Tic-I
The vote was an:iota:4d ittst I (Iaecd last winter and spring by tion, assailed the. FBI for "Icig-I
wer!ti, but the report w'as only ccaservative, Pepublicans and ging" his hotel. suite.) - . I
Itupiiiproik
alive Edv,-ard . ..
released today. In it, Represcnt- foutlr.rn Democrats.. .
elation of , Broadcasters, the
Peace Corps and the Agency for
International Development.
"Was Involved" '
"I. was very involved and so
was Juan Bosch, Volnian was
involved in everything," Mr..
Martin said, indicating that
when Mr. Bosch was overthrc-wn
September 25, 1533, Mr. Volraan
rescued the television tapes.
Asked if lie knew then that Mr.
Vahan worked for the CIA, 1.,1r.:
Martin. replied, "I don't think I r\j
can answer that," lie also said
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vice" .did not constitute
the - practice of law but
only the ministrations
foundation offic.cr.
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?.`,"'f'('-:11: CI 1.-.ort also disclosed that it
i--?,,,:.,....,,_, sought information from
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the. .Central intelligence
. -Agency during its investi-
BY TI--te,itrAS J. FOLE-'..'f -,gaticn of Douglas.
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111.:s t:71V:Ii;?: - - . : In a-letter written Ime,ril /
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WASII1NGTON --- The Both :Hutchinson, whose -11, jcc,-,.-i, to sa.-11z? VOlill',=`11 V -
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tIVE.',...1-11r11 Mnilocric. ma- repot called i for "a more serving as an adviser 'to
jority. of a Housr, subcoro- exhaustive investigation," Doraini-ean1-?,,e-olablie .P.res
mittce that. investigated and -Ford said no final COIF - ' idellt .711a:I BT-v:11, D07,g1Z.S
Supreme .0 o la r t Justice elusions could be roade tin- analyzcd a cl.s.,?vc10,2,-,2-1?1,
wimarii O. 1),Dul.a. said ? til the evidence. has- been contr,,,.ct -!-0.?;ch -ilad
Tuesday they found no tested under oath with -,,rith. 2 swiss copsortil-p-,,
eVidelle3 ClP.t.. he 2,,,l'Oeiat.. cross-examinatien penrrit- . Arno-n?i; ott.inr -t. h i r., ......,, s,.
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ed with gamblenz, advccat- ! ted? . . . ? . Douglas tr..)id -Voiirt-lar. that
The Ina j,.-.1rity report; \`:.?-'; c on s o r t i u m Director
ed revolution ci? misused
In s office by
.0 cd by
' -..0c7 ft.-'
law Elml
Cl-lier (3--)7N-Y.'? was "utterly vnco;-)scion--
A republi(2n. ther, - Re-,). :trek Erc7.-ll?s, (D-fi'?-x.) .213.1e.,, as. \,,..,.s -.2_ .reciu-ir22
-Rep. Edw?.?.1 Hutchinson -d B.,:i.ii.u.n :13-c'g'?" Incnt -that the Dominican
0-1-Mich.), charged ?in a .(1) - Cc','')-)? 1 fic'lc rec?m- Republic Day all survov
roin-ority. dissi,nt ihat the mendation a g ii n s t nn- .cos.,s. 1.-ie -said h, vioula
Demo -Iii rilaJOrity -reCi.elltrig ?:1?.01! ;..:; 1 a S V.T.:,.: try to cinc. sonacono 7,,h0
cl!osed the izrvestigation rilAle? Puolle twt) vsee's Nvculd be a "hOnest, relial--
. ....
-befol?e all the evidence an ' ? le a3-id dedicates: adviser ill
ViRS. ill. . Rep, Louis Wyman '(1.1.- f in an c i a I affairs" for
The other COI? Member NAL): who *c'''''-'''''c'fi le? --i-losn,
of the five-man group, gisintion to set 1).1) a se,1.,t .... Tne committee 'c
,_. - ...,
Rep. William l',IcCui-loch committee to study the said an exinnina:;:lon ? of
of Ohio, dcclinal to sig ,1 ell21g:I',s ag'linst- Dojlas: ?rnatcriel submitted by
either report. ? has said he wouliI reiniro- -p?-???,-1-,- vs,-.';,-,-+,-..?? . er?4
Ci.110,1 ""...;111.1:Ve':.SIV ; duce a similar 1 esolutical . zt---_tlyttt,,,,,F.: e.o.i.-cribp,5 by
as soon as the 112W* Cur' ?? Rep. Fore..in hi,.., ..A,.?ri-i. 1 5
? awe-rill- 11'101.5 after ll?Ps gress con v e n e d next ? speech, -.)articlarly Those
reports v.-ere. made public - month. activities that :related to
,
the Supn:u-Ge Co;.irt Infor- ' ., o i111-1. . , ..
?mation Qffice announced . dareftlili7nolnIt1::21{1?1.1:1-).3Vu3.72.sill ?tile.; .. ..n1 ,..? c ?o?N i;er_7;:11-Zelila-eas Relellt); )
lit'i1.1'1:S':.
that Dc't'.3Ia'3 .--\'')uld all- With the Albeit Pnvin ilronl.' V--?-?:-= Centyal Intel-
_morning to read a state-- found ation from. n CO n
ut il _ lipene:-.., -A.,:tency.'
pear at the .court this
tient. The office said dott ? he resigned his M2,030-a-
-- - ' year position as its pres-
- glas would not answer -
ident in :May, 1..)6D. It
questions.
The majority renort ale- showed that the institu-- ,
solving Douglas of im- tion was under the seruti- '
peacbmcnt chal-gos w ,:_, s ! fly of first the FBI and
branded a ",.vhitel.vash" by : then thc.., Internal Revenue ?
, ! House minority Loaclei, Service almost, froin its in-
cention because of the.
Gerald R. Ford (1-1-Ilich.), ? .?, - , ._) __I _f it., funds,
whozA--, allegations against '-`)111-`-1-' ot "'". 'J. - _ ?
the? justice prompted the Point- Iv feint
Itouse judiciary subcorn- Most of the foundation's.
Mitt" iill'illit"!- irte s2,'Iti l'UOUl.'C'US StelnrilCd ii:Oill.
documents lisiclue!ed in the its share of receipts !rola a
report "condemn his con- first mortgage on a Las
. duet and cry 101. 3il01:-C -veg:2,3 ganAbling cm i0 .
:searching inquiry." The majority report, in a
' Do'lgiast "extcnsh'e .":" .point-by-point , refutation.
tvajudiciaI earnings and of ? charges by Ford, -r,aid. ?
. activities have inmalmi th.,..it ita la hut no-, Do u..
11.111;."-,,,Sf.,11thlile.?"1"1 C.,1?1 1(t1 glas had associations, with
--- ---n-1.`');-i''')11 113 '11'1 , known g a ra b 1 c r s, that.
:United. 't i-' Slf,riiseir.3 i ci,.,,,,,, -I? ? , ?,,i?- s adVocat-
Coort," :b'ord said.. , ...A. 0,, ,u,1?.,t
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ed revolution in his 1";00R
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Was cooperating with the Central Intelligence
Agency in one of the activities for which his.
House critics sought to impeach him. A report
of a special . House panel that investigated
j Douglas indicates that two men associated. .
I with him in a ,Dominican Republic literacy ?
Iproject had some connection to the CIA. The '
exact connection isn't clear, however, because
i the CIA refused to open its files.
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-Justice Wflliari 0. Douglas i
has earned more money oft the'.
bench durimg the past .decade '
than he wa.s:paid.as a memberl.
of the Supreme Court, al. The report, signed only by c There was no connection.
special House subcommittee 1
.of the SU
the
to the Dominic.an Republic
-Democratic nlcrol between a 1P,33 visit. by Doug-
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tbhes- three
reported yesterday. .!- made these : conclusions and '?-, ? 1 vi?-?its thc?re by undcrwcirld
ht -- a 924-page. report that . dic.ctomi:es: personalities or former Senate
concluded there was no basis: - c. Douglas committed "no :Majority Secretary Bobby Bak-
for impeaching the 72-year?ol&
'justice, the subcommittee dis- i he 11011 Ov.'ned hy of cooperation.".ht-the Central
elesed that between MCI and l burg, central figitre in y:,\:t..1.1 iliAllitle,,Iligence Age-ocy'lett clang-,
and?intriguing inquiry
the high court, and had ?no into whether a Parvin 'Found-
alary of ?53f_a71969 Douglas topped his court . obscenity ce?-,e3 handled by
Jugs Of $377,260 from writings duty" to disqualify hint,eif ation employee named. Sacha 1
s419 with earn-
a iid lectures and .$2,G,V0 aswhen Ginzinu?-, petitioned un- . ,:. Volman 1,..05- a CIA agent in-
i
salaried president of the con- successfully to overturn a 'volved in the 'overthrow of
troversial Parvin Foundaton. huge libel verdict won by.!Dominican President Juan
? -The -House document itself Sen Larry Coldwater (R.-.,130f;ch, -a long-time friend of--.
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became an immediate subject : ' . .
of controversy . as Minority -'\ i'17-.).Douglas
.). . .
..bearler ? Gerald P. Ford (R- ' o The justice ha :7 been. Joining Colter in the sub-
I1ic:10 . promptly labeled it a 'careful, rather than insensi- I committee?findings were Reps.
?"whitCwash" of his charges I; ?v c, ? o
out "problems. of dis- ' Byron C. Rogers (D-Colo.) and
- that Douglas?an associate qualification" fiann. certain Jack Brooks (D-Texas). Rep.
justice sinc.?e lfri9--- had de- 1,,,ses. - 'William M.. MeCuIlogh (Ohio)
abstained and Rep. Edward
meancd the bench and -should ' 0 Charges th at Douglasll Hutchinson (ft-Mich.) filed a
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be removt?d. (prehed ac subversion in his' ! P.VO-Vage CliSSent.
11(.1iCial'y Committee Chair. ;book, "Points of RO)ellion,". 1 Hutchinson said the subcom-
man Enaanu.^l Cellar (D-N.V.) ,`"`. '-`'-`4 ?I.1 `-'is`?"?-` "?"'' mit ,e, h.,?1 LAcc, to b..to-J. ,,11.
. 1,,, n r? - ,r ?, ..4 , 1" . ,....1 ? . , , . - ..-? ..,' ; 1 ..,., ' , ? ??
. ,Iiiv:s and Douglas bore al re- the necessary evichnice and
1 ? .za? ... , 1 .. ., . . I. ? I sPc:n::::blilty for publication of could.' not consider its work
Said the Douglas investigation I '' ? ?'? - ' - ?? ' ?"- .
n ? pi o?iuceo a too:Imam or 'one of its chapters. in the complete without testiroony
evidence" that would lay the !Evergreen Review or for its and cross-examination of
? charges
to rest. Ford insisted hlaccinent between a cttoon Douglas and other principals.
tor 1-rcsident Nixon and r? eel- Ile also objected to the major-
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t the report's contclts, f )hotographs of ity's apparent cone.ts o
rather than its conclusions,1
. nude women.
I i lection o I
"condemn his conduct and cry ,
out for a more searching in- - ? Douglas has had no per: i
- quiry:'
,? sonal connection with um-1,-T- '
1 1 It eppeared that the full 'world fig,,nres, and financier
Icommitlec: would not meat, I Albert Parvin, the alleged link
much less t:-:??17?le the Douglas to ._:.:u.ch persons, has been I
mat Le;., before the cicre or the ,
. k ,,? p,nd the auto- cleared of criminal charEcc-:;
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iniatic death of the r,?solution altcr? a m a s sty e Into. 1 ?,
91st Con,' -- -
authc,irizinE,?? the investia4-ion' I' ---en1 -- Service ? ? ^" :
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Rep. Louis C. wyro,,,i (it .,?_:o. .,,, , LA, in?eo.ication
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vowed to reenon theCom-,
the ric:xt Congress with a rev .
case'\l 1 ir;,iiii ;1"eleox?":11thzts involved 11 agents
:1.)id for an investigation not ii working 30,317 rat n-hours hi
icontrolled hy Celler, and Fond \ eight states the District
and
of Columbia'
?said he would "support" the
%novo..0 Nothing P n
Douglas old. Eys
Douglas, who has known ,head of the arvin Foundatio
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Ii' naturedin m
of the subcommit-; which worked for international
understang aounted to
" -iir'' or law."
Lee .report for several ciFt ..-", 't ill 111a ih., ..?
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planned to make a., .bricf stats-The foundation had its own
. ment at the SU-Pr:eine Courtlilawyers, one of whom WAS
1today. A court sp:.;!---??-?m?-11' said 'i CaroVn Agg`?, wife of f?reler
?,?-
he would not Answ Oustice Abe Forta",.
er ques-
. , ?
Itipus.
an impeachable offense must ?
amount to a. criminal act. -
Hutchinson said the inv6sti-
gators also should have ..
cleared up the question of
why Douglas intervened with
1
the Immiffat ion and Naturali-
\zation Service (INS) on behalf of'Mustafa SaBh Abdulrah-
man, a Kurdish teacher from
Iraq who was fighting deporta-
tionI to his home country.
Douglas wrote the INS that he
did not know Abdulrahman
but could support the claim
that he and other Kurds faced
persecution in Iraq.
"Someone. must have asked
Justice Douglas to intereede,".
said ? Hutchinson, demanding
to know who it was. ?). e-.1..?c ,,,,
Shafiq .Q.nzaz, a 3G-year?old
doctoral candidate at Ameri-
can University, told The Wash-
ington Post that he had writ-.
ten Douf;las tart February ask-
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?,, Li t\ r.....e ',:a2) .:*:i Id II 'V in jai:A :.i Li warn Besch abot,t. him.
On May 23, 1965, Douglas;
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it. . j , (--'-';`, \ ra r?-.--,,
--: \ f: ;.i; t' h li 0 t!',?'-? ,-,, . :;
write a letter to another old?
ai,.67"T,7 !:?' It'lliF) r ,
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1, ../,! ? friend, former Pue.rto Rico Gov.
PI c P rt
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, ,, P .-- Luis Munoz Marin. Saylua he
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, chd not trust communications in
' / V il U LI il ii -.ell 11 li Li '?ea E' '%:-.,;if --=-:' Li Li \''' the 'Dominican Republic, the jus-
tice asked Munoz Marin to relay.
By LYLE D'.all?INISTON -a "message" to Bosch.
'Star Staff Viri!,:r
,.? Suprema Court Justice William 0. Douglas took special steps Bosch-Volinart assocnat3on,
1963 to warn Latin American political figure Juan Busch not Douglas wrote: "I am sure he
to deal with a man Douglas believed to be on the Central Intel-(Bosch) did not know that Vol-
ligraztoe A?leecv payroll.
man at the time was on the CIA.
The ?a payroll. Volman.may or may not!
The iecizleat, disclosed in still-unpublished letters,
a special be . at _the preac,aLtime, bui. I?
sequel to a CIA mastery micovered bet not solved by
House, ,juclic!aoy subeommittee pf.)rapted the, we:Ming-he soi.iEhti would" think the cbances are
in its thvestigation of Douglas' to give to Bosch, an old friend: great that he is."
out-of-court activity. 'who was then trying to mal;a, a ? On May 31, - Munoz Marin
Release today of the subcom- leibtieal comeoaca in me Lee ? , . --c!., -1+ - L a Li'a e, a
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mittee's 921:page report brought reinican Republic. ;that he would get word to Bosch
a wide voray Cr disclosures- a, .e _ ' ;lof "the siOlatiOn."
about Dre%jaas. Earlier, the pan_ !. Iv aiming Against Vona an - Besilcs writing to Munoz Mor-
el had centile-led ? by a party- The man he was warning in, .,?ouglas had conveyed his
line vote of 3 to I. -2- that none of Bosch zeaeinst was Sacha Vol-, t' oughts about Volman to Albert,
its lillealigls iiItifica irill=?-I-aell- roan. A Rumanian refugee who. Parvm, the Dos Angeles busa-
meat. . hild long been Bosch's political nessman who founded the Par-
Line panel repoot still has not ally in Latin Americo, Voln.uni,' yin Foundation in 1931 and f:..ked
been consiclered 'iry the pareut? Led been in charge of the Etera-;'Douglas to haa.d it?
Judiciary Cesniattleee, and aides cy project financed by it.:2 Par-, "Sacha Volman is back in the
said the eatIkee, that could be! yin Foundation and the U.S. g,ov-! State Department or somebody's
done would Le neat Tuesday. errenent. , . .. ipayroll, ' probably the CIA,"
-,., oisclosanes 1 - While the Trujillo dictetorship,Douglas wrote to Nryin oe May
.- ; -
Arnoaa all the-
. . , ? 31c.lill 1, 'a, in nower th the Dome 25, 196'3. Recall.na v;hat he de-
ort. 011, 1, ,?, 1.1 aa taaaatam?
state in the report: The"sugges-lean Reineblic, hesch at 'i Y61- scribed as a "biLter cxreriecall"
. _
, .1 ,- . t .., - ;..... .,,, ,i, Ilan worhed together to train a!with Volman s nananng of. the
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" -- - -e ci?it i.;.;,' ,..-,',.,' ' ' "government in exile." Vhedliteracy project, Douglas said
isinfib7D?.?07ro,91nrcl-1 -nill-a.:111-.1--hr'e,,Trinj,illo VjaS aSsassinated - -in i tha foundation would uaat, want.
.early 193 es, and tia,t jaatoos;.1m, BziictliicaanialioNrioclems airbtlriotia)eloi_t to. get tied up With hirri again."
may have had Et least en indi-! I ??..lri P').' These letters are not men-
Bosch
reet role. VT.:Ir.:an Republic, and tioned in the sithcoMmittee re-
- The subcommittee says iti .
Vas elected preeident. I port. However, the report does
could not g,et full il 1 0C2 13
Appareetly, Bosch asked .Jus-' include materials showing tliat
detas ...'_,
the CM didn.ot matte Dau
a "satis-ladutt liteaacy
Lice glas for hep w
lith an
g, , Douglas was personally involved
.d; v.-i
I factoq response" to its inquir- DuLjes' ar proram ari ll the literacy project and
o
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eanof,e fel" tk-z= rarvin; other political an deconor e "C-.?
ls.
. !Fam.idation to .-sepprect it. Its
? tivitic-s in the Dominican Repub-
! It is not clear, from doeu- menneya and. tha1 put up by tine :lie. . . .
? ments in the report, whether U.S. ii...I.eney for International
l ,...
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'Douglas knew th tie t
at e mhat Dovelopeaent,? '-
was cornnnele Ito '
. the agc-ncy was in eny way in- a, foamdatiaa headz?d by Volta ail_.
- turacil Bosch 's governelent,.. a
volved' with a project to Ii. ch ? the Ceater for Ecoaornie. an d? Leav constitution was written for
Darainican Ecepublic adults, xela Sacial Stedies. - - - the Dominica.n Republic. Letters
. television, to read end write. But Bosch was overthrov:n in; in the subcommittee report show
That projeet was parthy fa 1933 by a militry junta! before!
, , that Douglas has acted ES an
nanced by the Alhert Parvin tin'- literacy Pi"e:ilet". C'el!ld bc 1-1-11- i adviser to the assembly . which
!POIllakiation, villa. D o u. g 1 a slY arra'-'1. A Y3212 l''tc'r, ill 1 drafte0, that do-cument. Ile ac.-
? headed as president froth El51. to 1.-'''7'4) VCIT-"a" 1".f"c!" uP m N2w1 vu cit this in a letter dated
'1939. Other fincing lee from York Es tho t of.ari orgari za- i June 12, ns.,), to a Dovainican
- the State Deparan Ca tment, and the Con aamed the institute of intereIgovermaent lea?fu're.
project appazently had strong 111:0'1`1 il".i.:1)9'. Ilei:'eal?c:1' I Douglas; also gave advice, re??
Mite House sepp:ea in ii.- a,-h? At that time, P. Vouse hco,rinng
: , !lived hi a letter to \a, in'
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re,h-astaatia,-, .oc -pret-)flenl, jc,fili disel'_?,':al that thic; instituteacaz Amu li, li:,a.3, oil a (?ontrac,t at_
.10. Kennedy. got $395,020 frarai thei :if. M. lee'ata,,, (o..astrt,,tion 0.-f dr.r,Th and
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? It has been learned. th`,t4 the Kaplan Fund nail tl.al. ta?.p.nd,i.or,,:z, ccanmuta dr:,?,010,,,imollt
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;subcdlninittee has in its files, hal bean a ' - ? - ? -
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tibrat r,i wheel? the CIA coadi c..'-3-c s il 1- u" ? ?
. though it did not put thelp- in its li:_;1..,,,c.,xli-funci?, !.!.,to oversei-,s ectiet-h ja:siaeaiea Forel-an Affairs
repra4, letters w?hich showed o
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, 1... V o an lm w as quo t ed in the B ut, a ccor ding to the sul?cm-
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the fund. . i'can Peloablle. .
. Referring to the earlier
eaer written by Iota:alas on
June 9, 1936, reveals that he
spent three hours the night be-
fore dIseussing Asian effairs and
the Vietnam war with President
tLyndon Johnson.
Douglas says he'got Johnson's
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approval for an international
conference --partly financed by
the Pat-via Foundatioa, and
managed by the Center for the
Study of Democratic' Install-
tons, which Douglas also head-
ed that would attempt to get
both Rod China and North Viet-
nam to talk over Asian problems
with Western government and
private leaders.
During the conversation witle
Johnson,. Douglas relates, an
hour and a half was taken up.
When' Johnson ."held on variol.s.
aspects of Viet Nana which I
will not summarize at this time.
He did, however give me a very
simple recipe. for resolving the
Vietnam controversy...."
-That "recipe" is not described
in the letter or the subcommit-
tee report.
Among other reasons Douglas:
had for seeing Johnson, he indi-
cated, was to get the President's:
clearance for a visit to Hanoi by.
two Americans ? Harry Ash-
more and William Daggs to
talk to Ho Chi Minh, tine North
Vietnamese leader, about at-
tendimg the Asian conference.
? Other Diselesaees
The subcommittee report, be-
sides detailing those activities
involving Douglas, also contains
these ether disclosures: ?
o In the years 1.960-99, Douglas
earned more from off-bench ac-
tivity - than from. his Supreme'
Court salary. Lis total salary
was $339,749.26 while his non-
court income was $173,910.10.
o Of his outside income, Doug-
las received $23,680 for his serv-
ice as president of the ?Parvin
Foundation, and $377,260.19 from
"wril.ing and lecturing," accord-
ing to the justice's income tax
returns.' Another document in
the report shows the foundation
paid him $101,000, plus $713.20.
'There is no explanantion of the
differing figures. Still another
shows that the part of his in-
come which came from the Cen-
ter for the Study of Democratic
Iustat.ao,e, sins haeJ,_-
ariums and $13,770.16 in refra-
..bursed expenses.
e The report shows that Deug-
lee' tics with Albert Parvin en-
tended well beyond the Par-.'in!
Foundation. Documents sinte:v!
:that Parvin's furnishings supply I
comnany sold the Douglas'es a
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By GEORGE ANNE GEYEIt. i old enemy Joaquin Balaguer '?
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. ? to power for another lour
; ? SANTO DOMINGO, Domini- years, he chatted cordially. ?
7 can Republican (CDN) ? The . "Every day people here
bitterness and trouble etched have less and less interest in
In the craggy face of Juan representative democracy," .
Bosch are like canyons in an he began. And I thought back
. ancient wilderness. If he were' to the time when he was Mr.
not so much a man, he would . Democracy in the Caribbean.
, be the essence of the woman ; "Even in the United States, it
-scorned. .? doesn't work. ?
. .
i . He is back in his native . "Luckily, the American in., ,
i land after three weary years ' tervention opened the eyes of '
:
in exile. our people," he went on,.rock-
, . He lives in his sister's home I Ing gently in a rocker on the.
t near the blue sea that edges , 'open porch. of the attractive,
: this tropical city, and he sel- modern house. "If not, we
.--N? dom goes out, might have gone years with-
Each day, this troubled-
out realizing that representive
,...,._./ , , ?
looking man with the clipped, ; democracy would never work.
white hair cries out to his ' for us." .
, countrymen. His early after- I .. meant only to be Wry
. noon radio broadcasts, with , when I asked, "Dr. Bosch, are I
,their homey parables about . you suggesting we did you a I,
; ?
, Dominicana, love, politics and favor?"
I life, reach into every corner "Yes," he answered. "That
, of this convulsive green is- '1 is the way history works." ,
? land, enlivening a torpid exist- ' He paused. "For two years
ence by asking questions that after the intervention, I was
? only God could answer. ,very confused. I had never ex-
' Yet Bosch ? the mystical,. pected the U.S. to intervene. I 1
' temperamental, tough core of ? though the United States was '
,
,? so much of the torment of this a democraty. At base, I
'-Island, is a different man to-. though it was very good. Then
day than he was five years' I saw the real face of the
I ago, when 23,000 American... United States." ?
troops landed to put down a ? He put his hand to his own
; revolution that would have re- ,face and drew it over his fea-
tturned him to power. tures as though removing a ?
Though he is only 61 and I mask.
... .3, "There is a picture in the
?., looking fit and splendid, he is , world that shows the United
,
painfully aware of his age. He Stets on the side of the weak
iis looked upon as conservative I and the helpless, on the side
; by many of the youth, and of right. We believed that
this spring he played a key propaganda." He paused, and
and generally unknown role in. none of the dozen family and
.., stopping what probably would friends who sat there queitly
have led to another civil war. listening moved in the slow
-
' He is the democrat betrayed afternoon heat.
+, he now has turned his Carte-
"We were wrong."
It
' sian mind to the delineation of is easy to believe that
'., a "solution" for his country Bosch, a tortured man even
that he obscurely calls "dicta. when things were going well,'
? torship with popular support." had spent a good tro years
are all "MA ar,epts" to him-- most in a state of shock.
/
after the 1965 revolution al-
Ho had been eletted presi-
,? Bosch rarely sees American,
Journalists these days --they I
dent of this largely mulatto
' but hrattcran's a perfect gen-??..tian_ni .,,. A 1
: tleman. So whAlialle0)f*W F?irRIA-640,,
,. to see him after 'the May 16 ,. ?
,election, which returned hie,
r"..\
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gt er
sons in 1962 after the assassi- .. He shook his head, with typi-
nation of the brutal dictator
'cal Boschist impatience at de-
Rafael 'Trujillo. Bosch, a mends for details. ,
well-known writer, was the "You never know how -
first elected president In $1 '
; things are going to happen,"
years. ! he said. "When the American ,
"Democracy in the Carib- " Revolution occurred, no one 3
bean," as the Kennedy people .' knew that it was going to end ,t
Idealistically d u b b ed the - 'i in a federal republic. Castro .
Bosch experiment, lasted only ', did not know his revolution
seven months before the Tru- i' would end in Marxism, and i
jiloite military, considering ! Marx did not know how his '
anyone not immediately out of . theories would end. I know
the slaughterhouse of dictator-. that that when the people of a 1 ?
ship a "Communist," over- f country - are ready for a,
threw the liberal Bosch. : change that change comes:
The United States took nor':through whatever route." ,
action at this time, but when "But what controls would ,
civilian and military 13oschists there be in such society?" I
staged a civil war in April, ' asked.
1965, which was destroying' "The people will provide the ?
the old military, President . controls. If it Is a dictatorship;
'Johnson landed the troops 'of the people, then the people
here. Suddenly "democracy In' i
' protect it. If the people are ' ?
the Caribbean" was being la- !against it, then you need
beled "communism in the repression." .
Caribbean.". I "Is,there any government in
After seemingly endless dr- I similar to what I am talking
cumlocutions, during which 'about. What is most similar Ls '
American troops helped wipe 'North Vietnam, a front which '
out many of Bosch's forces I unites all the classes. But
,and American officials helped I there it is directed oy a party. ?
'destroy his chances for re-e- !Here there would be no party ;
lection, Bosch was defeated lit ;but an administrative corns."'
the 1966 elections by Bala- Bosch then embarked upon .
guer, who had been TrujillO's ' an enthusiastic, emotional de?-?
righthand man.,
scription of North Vietnam,
Bosch went into self-exile in 'which, along with China and
Spain, until this spring, when 1North Korea, he recently vis- .!
he came back for a purpose. ,ited. . 1
_ He came back with an answer ? "To visit North Vietnam Is'
to the humiliation and deceit 'the greatest experience that a'
he feels he has suffered at the !person could have in the.
hands of the United States. 'world;" he said. "It Is incredi- ,
His answer is a new system ble ... incredible. Every ..
for the Dominican Republic. , house has five persons and i
What the country needs, he i five arms. And they never use',.4
said, is a new conglomerate of? them to kill a Vietnames." %
political elements, which he t But when I asked him'
? calls "popular dictatorship" whether the North Vietnamese
or "dictatorship with popular system could work in Latin ?
I support." America,' he said very strong- ?
1 Bosch has always been a lyt
"No. This Is another
mystic, and he is mystically, world. Vietnam is very organ-
, obscure about this "new sys- ized; it is ancient." ;
' tern," particularly about how. It is easy enough simply to
I it will be effected. ' dismiss Boseh's mystic utter-41
; ! "How would It dome., to
c- ances, and Bosch, himself?
pass?' I persisted. k , temperamental, 'a bad admin.
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The bitterness and trouble ttched known him for six years, to find that lection, Bosch was defeated in the
. . in the craggy face of Juan Bosch are the furies in him had erected-anoth. 1066 elections by Balaguer, who had
like canyons in an ancient wilder- er 'perfect construction to explain been Trujillo's right-hand man.
' nes& If he were not so much a man; his disillusionment with the United Bosch went into self-exile in Spain.. .
he would be the essence of the wo- States and with democracy. both of Until this spring, when he came back . ?
man scorned. which ' he. once loved, . perhaps .too for a purpose. Ile came back with an ?
He is back in the Dominidan Re- much. . . .? : ? ' answer to the humiliation and de-
public, his native land, after three ."Every day people here have less ceit he feels he has suffered at the .
weary years in exile, so angry at the and less interest in' representative hands of the United States. His an-
United States that he sometimes' demo c r a ey;". ? he began. And I swer is a new system for the Do-
? . -.?
. : seems all by himself to be a chorus thought back to the time when he minican Republic.
of Greek furies. . .: was Mr. Democracy in the Carib- What the country needs, he said, is
IIe lives in his sister's home near bean. "Even in the United States, it a nevir conglomerate of political ele-
the blue sea that edges this tropical doesn't work., '...-? ' ??? ? ? ....' month, which he calls "popular clic-
city, and he seldom goes out. "Luckily, the AmeriCan interven, tatorship" or "dictatorship with pop- .
Each day, though,, this troubled, lion' opened the eyes of' (Mr peOPle," War support." ... . ? . ? .
looking man *ith the clipped, white he went on,?rocking.gently in a reek- Bosch has 'always been a myitic, .
hair cries out to his countrymen. His
or on the open porch 'of the attrae-, and he is mystically obscure about
early afternoon radio broadcasts. tive.malern house.:Plenot; we might this "n e w s y s t e m," particularly
with their --homey parables about have gone years :Without realizing about how it will be effected.
Dominicana,. love, politics and life, that representative. de m o c racy "How would it come to pass?". I .
reach into-every corner Of this con- would never wolic.r.for me' . ? .,;'.; . persisted. He shook his head with.
vulsive green island, enlivening a ?
4-fe.i paused. "For years after, the typical Bcisehist impatience at de-
torpid existence by. asking questions
_ that only God 'could answer. ? intervention, I was very confused. I mends for details.
had never expected the US. co inter- "You never know how things are
) - Yet Bosch, . the mystical, temper\
? e . :
vene. 1 thought the .United States going to happen," he said. "When
amental, tough core f so much of .
W
.'I? a differ- ..as a democracy. liaie, I thought American Revolution occurred,
the torment of this island, s ...
ent man today than! he : was five -it was very good. -Then I saw the no one knew that it was going to end , ?
years ago, when 23,000 American
troops landed to put (WWI a revolu 'real face of the United States.* ' :. in a federal republic. Castro did not ?
1 It is e to believe that Bosch, II know his revolution would end in
-, , .as3'
:tion that would have' returned: him._ e. ..orairea man even when
thin gs'Mancim. and Marx did not know . .
to power. .. - ... were going well, had spent a good .how his theories would end: I know
that when ? the people of ?a country.-
two years after the 1965 revolution , Though he is only 61, and looking
almost in a state of shock. are ready for a change, that change
' fit and splendid, he is painfully, He had been elected president. ?teems through whatever route." ? ?
? aware of his age. He is looked upon l,,,,_ 1,,?___ ? gely-mulatto nation of some "Is there any government in. the
? as conservative by many ' of the i.,?.4.mwil`..on
youth and this spring he played a I" million persons in 1962 after the world similar to what you are think-
assassination of the brutal dictator log about?" .?
. key and generally unknown role "'.Rafael Trujillo. Bosch, a well-known ? "There is no government similar to.
.
stopping Naiat probably would . have.
' led to another civil war. Writer, was' the. first. elected .pres-?what -I am talking about. What, is ?
He. is the democrat betrayed.
ident in 31 'yeart. . ? ' ? .? most similar is North Vietnam, a
so
betrayed he now has turned his Car- : "Democracf In. the 'Caribbean,' as front which unites all the classes..
tesian mind to the delineation of a the Kennedy people idealistically But there it is directed by a party...
? 'solution" for his country that he oh- d u b b e d t h e Bosch experiment, Here there would be no party but an .
scurely calls "dictatorship with pop- lasted only seven months before the administrative corps."
7 uiar support." ?
Bosch rarely sees American jour- Trujilloite military, considering It is easy enough simply to dismiss
anyone not immediately out of the Bosch's mystic utterances. Bosch ?
nalists these days?they are allTA slaughterhouse ?-of dictatorship a himself?temperamental, a bad ad- ?
agents' to him?but he remainsc.a 11h
"Communist,' un. . ty, a man rigid in the observance of
The 'United
t," overtitrew the liberal minstrator,
-.
a fusser, a man of vani- '
perfect gentleman. So w h en I
. States took no action the emoluments of his place?has
dropped by to see him after the May :.
. 16 election, which returned his old at that time, but when civilian and:brought on quite enough of his own,
, enemy Joaquin Balaper to power. military Boschists staged a civil war problems for ,most criticisms to hold ?
In April, 1965, which was destroying some validity.
for another teur years, he. chatted Nevertheless, there is a certain re-, ,
the old military, Johnson .
cordially. ? :s . ? landed the troops here. Suddenly ceptiveness all over Latin America
. ' Mitch of the fakination in Bosch ts "democracy in the Caribbean" was and elsewhere in the. underdeve-
..:-../ labeled.' .icommunism in the loped world to .
the idea of "popular.
- ' that he is a man who weavei . per,. being
iectly constructed, slim and. shiny; caribbeae , diclatorship.". Basically, it is a mix- '
theories about his Dominican cogitv , mix-
ture of Mussolini corporativism,
Atter seemingly endless cercumlo? .
try la most random and. undiscp, . American .Nasseristic military_ _ir.isurrectiol as
plined world) with niturigen cutions, during which ? a road to power, . Marxist utopian- .
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THUNDER OVER THESTATINTL POTOMAC Numb P,
At Great Falls, a few miles above theiNation's capital, the Potomac is a narr
uw
shining ribbon of water twisting and winding between its palisades as seen from
20,000 feet. It is here that the great procession of mighty thundering jetline
begin their descent as they head toward National Airport. It is challenging to
pilot to keep in the narrow twisting corridor above the river, where he is requ'
to remain because the thundering roar of his aircraft is unwelcome to the resid
of the District of Columbia and Virginia on the land below. Apparently the resi-
dents of Georgetown in the District of Columbia have more political influence, for STATINTL
as a result of their complaints pilots make sure that when they stray from over the
river, it is on the Virginia side., As the planes thunder over Langley, Va., pass-
engers look out upon' the roof of a tremendous office complex, a massive white build-
ing With two gigantic bean-shaped parking lotS,--the imposing headquarters of the
Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.). I'
MYSTERY FOR A SHROUD
Intelligence is generally thought of as a cloak and dagger hush-hush business,
shrouded in mystery, and much is made of how secret the operation is. But
? the iceberg has a big tip--the building in Langley, the recruiters on college cav
puses, and operations such as the U-2 overflights of Russia, and the Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba.
Most people recognize the need of governments for accurate intelligence, necessary
for the protection of their nationals. Things that are really subject to question
by the layman are the concept of this operation being.a wbrld wide network, com-
puterized, and mass-produced with a massive bureaucracy, and the quality and orien-
tation of the personnel involved. Of course, the size of the budget to sustain all
this should be a justifiable, question for taxpayers. This is particularly import-
.ant as the budget of the C.I.A. is secret--even the Congressmen who vote the funds
are not supposed to know the amount of the agency's budget. The allotments are con-
cealed in appropriations for other agencies of government. If, however, the C.I.A.
.gets the reputed amount of $4 BILLION a year, and this amount can be hidden in the
budget, it would certainly cause taxpayers to wonder if the federal budget is not
' leakier than the New York City water system..
One thing is certain--anybody who recruits on college campuses should know what he
--;.---is_hiring--for the students who get honors these days are those who please the
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JAN 2 8 197CP
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Two Are? Indicted
In Firearms C
BY JIM LEWIS
Staff Writer
A Fayetteville gun shop
operator and a New York man
have been indicted here on
charges of violating federal
firearms laws.
The grand jury of U. S.
Eastern District Court returned
the bills of indictment in Raleigh
tz
Monday against Earl V. Redick
operator of Pine State Gun
Shop at Fayetteville, and George
DeMeo, a reputed weapons
t dealer whose address has been
listed as Yonkers, N. Y. ?
Both Redick and DeMeo were
indicted on charges of failing
to register as an arms dealer;
neglecting to ' register the
weapons they offered for sale;
and failing tia obtain a license
to sell explosive -devices. In ad-
dition, Redick. a 45-year-old
former enlisted military man,
was indicted on a separate count
of . ? to. ntaintain t000rds
and
se
? ? ?
A Senate investigator disclos-
ed last October during a probe
of the activities of retired Army
Major Gen. ',Carl Turner that
Turner had sold :arms to the
Fayetteville ? gun* shop. The
weapons were allegedly destined
for rebels in Haiti. There was
a subsequent report that.. the
firearms were to be shipped to
the West African nation,of Chad.
More 'recently, it was reported
the guns were headed for
Dominican Republic.,There wer
unconfirmed' reports of ..,C.Anipl
Intelligence
VOIVelftenr"
Charges ? against 'Redick and
DeMeo followed a raid last June
27 of a warehouse. at -Redick's
home ? about" 1.0. miles south of
Fayetteville; Federal ,Officials
seized a five-tanicache of arms
However, ".the, cindietnients?
returoeCtor;the federal. wand
b4?.* katia./
STATI NTL
'jury here did not Involve thei
arms cache. Rather, the charges
involved weapons left for repair
at Redicic's downtown Fayet-
teville gun shop:
? "There is no involvement with;
the CIA in any of these cases.:
It is not an issue in any one
of these cases against the men,"
J. C. Proctor, an assistant U.S.
attorney, mid here Tuesday.
Proctor said ' Redick and
DeMeo would be arraigned at
e next term of federal court
n Fayetteville which begins
Feb. 2. He said the date of
' their trial also 3yould be set
then.
Listed as the weapons on
which .the charges were based
were a .30-caliber Cabers
Faktori automatic rifle; a .30-
calibei Browning automatic
ri-
fle; an M-2 rifle; and quantities
of explosives commonly used in
military operations.
During cloak-and-dagger ' ef-
forts to initiate delivery of the
big cache of weapons found in
Itedick's warehouse last year,
DeMeo and Redick reportedly
'became concerned that the arms
would fall into the wrong hands:
IThey subsequently contacted a
!highly placed United States of-
ficial in Washington.
Neither Redick, DeMeo' nor
a spokesman for Redick have
confirmed or denied that their
gun shipment was linked to the
secretive CIA. But during in-
tervlews Redick and others left
the clear impression that the
U. S. ?official wps'employed by
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1? By DON ROHNING
_? Herald Latin America Editor
An increasingly volatile
political climate in the Do.'
minican Republic has once
again provided Communist,
extremists with a situation
ripe for agitation and exploi:i
' tation.
e u
? - ?
MOST MILITANT of tto
country's extremist groups LI
the Dominican l'opulai
Movement ? headed by Max. ?
imiliano Gomez, a 26-year..
old Dominican known as "El
Moreno."
Gomez,who returned to
Dominican Republic after, its
'of Santo Do- -I
ORTHODOX Commu-
ming? and also active among
carnpesinos. Utilizes terrorist . nist Party (PCO). Tiny and
Vietics including bombings, ,' 'virtually inactive party.
assassinations and robbery. Founded in 1966 as spin-off
Founded in 1956 in Cuba by
from MPD. Pro-Peking.
Maximo Lopez, Molina (who
has since broken away).
0 VOZ PROLETARIAT
Communist orientation since
the Domin
its inception. Established in ? (VP). Founded in mid-1968 as
Just five years ago this! .
tinonth they seized upon th receiving guerrilla training ini , the Dominican Republic p r o -Peking group by
? Cuba in 1963, was one of 211' shortly after May 1961 ? J ?
1 chaos created by an attempt. nrionnprc
t' f 1 d* t t dissidenis from Dominican ,
Rafael Trujillo.
y the
Popular Movement. Small- 1-
se l
ed military coup to exert at government and sent to Mex-'''
influence far beyond their ,
numbers in the bloody civi ion last month in exchange
for Donald J. Crowley, the
? ? , war that followed. The threat of a Communis kidnaped U.S. 'Embassy air
attache. ? ,
?
takeover of the country a r - -
:the time prompted President'', Here is a thumbnail sketch
' Johnson to order the cotitro-:- of the various Dominican '
versial intervention by 23,000q
! their estimated numerical
? TODAY, however, the Do- ! strength, ideological orienta-
1, minican Communist move-;: tion and background:
? ment is as badly splintered'. .
: as every other group or 0 DOMINICAN Commu-
institution in the troubled I nist Party. Oldest, best-disci-
Caribbean island country. I plined and most sophisticat-
1 The U.S. State Depart- ed. Membership largely
! ment, in its 1969 edition of ' bourgeois and intellectual.
..World Strength of the Corn-. Founded in the mid-1940's by
.
munist Party Organization," 1 Spanish exiles. Has become
. estimates the hardcore Do-. increasingly nationalistic
'minican Communist member-. since 1965 when young turks
ship at little more than 1,000 ? .s e i z e d control from
. divided among a half dozen. entrenched older leadership.
: tactically and ideologically. Active membership is now
.1 about 200.
-...? ? Other sources put it: Probably closest to Cuba
Communist groups, including
U.S. troops.
;? disparate groups. '
, but relatively active until I
0 FOURTEENTH of June December 1968, when it. pub-
Movement (MR-1J4). Takes ! licly announced it had tried,
?name from Cuban-inspired i executed and cremated its
June 14, 1959, invasion of secretary-general, . Caonabo
Dominican Republic by anti- Elpidio Jorge Tavares for
Trujillo exiles. Founded dur-tI being an, alleged CIA In.; V
:11 ing Truj ill o era as formant,?i__. !"..1=
1: clandestine nationalist. ono.' ? .
-???? ? ? ? ?
1 nization. Widespread support :.
I from middle and upper class !!
, youth in period after Tru-
jillo's death. Communist and ?
pro-Castro elements gained..
Influence by late 1962 and by
1963 leadership of party
under Communist control.'-'
Proclaimed itself Marxist-Lett;$
ninist Party in 1066.
.
; Probably now ? has less
than 100 hardcore activists.1.
1:B a dly factionalized. Still
;.some influence in university
and secondary .school federa-
tion.
:ideologically. Moved from a ?
t. perhaps as high as 2,00(1 but ?
13asically pro-Moscow one
? COMMUNIST Party of
certainly no more. .
tation under old leadership to t
the Dominican Republic
? .
t - more revolutionary position.
? ? COMMUNIST activitiesCondemned Soviet interven- - (PCRD)? Founded in t
Commonly known
, .1
'
: have been officially prohibit- tion in Czechoslovakia. and ? as "Pacoredo."
?
ed since 1963. 'refused to sign document of: 1966 as splinter from the Dn.:*
. minican Popular Movement. J
world Communist Party or- ?
[ ? Still, their activities. have I Moscow sum-' Generally follows Peking-line, ?
lanizations at oscow sum-
'. been tolerated to a degree,- a 'although condemned kid-
' i ' ?
I: and it is not unusual to see., mit conference last June. supports the "popular !nailing of Crowley. Active
. kid-
news stories in Dominican openly; supp membership about. 100. ?
'dictatorship" thesis of ex-
papers stating the various; re
t. parties' position regarding:psident Juan Bosch and his Increasing in significance.
Active in university student
i ..specific events. . ,
, Dominican ? RevitItifioluify- affairs throOgh its youth .
Dominican President Joa. Party (PRD). :arm. Jiiventud Comunista.
quin Balaguer himself has
said
? ?
I said that "only when the 1 ' ?? DOMINICAN Popular. 0 POPVLAR Socialist '
? Communists take action that) ? .-Movement (MPD. ? Greatest ' Party (PSP). Staunchly pro-
: can be considered subversive.' "action" capability of any of :Moscow. Small, with perhaps
or try to upset or 50 active members. Resta-
order and dial'
' the extremst groups. L
. peace of the land do-the au., ? Loosely
described ' as pro-Cuba pro. , rected in 1967 by old guard
:
thorities intervene." ; ?? g_' Peking and anti-Moscow leadership of Dominican
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' crisis in the Dominican Republic
? after the 1961 assassination of
. the long-time dictator Rafael
!Trujillo, tapped the telephone
? lines of the Dominican Embassy
here, governemnt sources
? reported yesterday. They said
'the tap was installed and main-
tained by the Federal Bureau of
? 'Investigation, on orders of the
'State Department and White
, House.
; Disclosure of the tap came as
? a result of documents presented
last month in U.S. District Court
!here during the pre-trial hearing
on criminal charges against
, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker,
, former secretary to the Senate
;Democrats.
Baker faces trial next month
on nine counts of theft, tax
evasion and conspiracy to
defraud the government.
Evidence Suppression Asked
During the pre-trial hearing,
his attorney, Edward Bennett
Williams, asked that govern-
ment evidence be suppressed on
the grounds that it was obtained
illegally - through wire-tapping
and "bugging."
Government prosecutors
acknowledged that some of
Baker's conversations had been
recorded clandestinely, but
insisted that none of the infor-
mation obtained related to the
criminal indictments against
him.
In an effort to prove that
point, the government produced
for Judge Oliver Gasch tran-
scripts of all the tapped and
"bugged" conversation involv-
ing Baker.
Partial transcripts of conver-,
sations recorded by three hidden!
microphones were introduced in
! evidence during the hearing.
Hidden in Three Offices
U
By ROBERT WALTERS
Star Staff Willer
U.S. intelligence officials, ,
At a conference in Gasch's
chambers early in the hearings,
Williams and Justice Depart-
?ment attorney William 0. Bitt-
man agreed to seal the docu-
ments pertaining to the Domini-
can Embassy and not discuss
them in public sessions.
No mention was made of
them, but on Friday syndicated
newspaper columnists Drew
Pearson and Jack Anderson
disclosed the existence of the
tap and said:
"Secretary of State Dean
Rusk was so alarmed over the
eavesdropping that he sent an
anguished appeal to the courts
to suppress the evidence. Ac-
cordingly, Judge Gasch sealed
the evidence and directed Baker
and his attorneys not to mention
the embassy wire taps."
Intervention Denied
In the only subsequent public
comment on the disclosure,
State Department Press Officer
Robert J. McCloskey said
Friday: "It is not true that
Secretary Rusk or anyone else
in the department made an
intervention in this case as
alleged in this column."
McCloskey refused to com-
ment on the report of the tap on
the grounds that it was "a
matter for the Justice Depart-
ment and I don't want to get into
any discussion of substance of a
case that is now before the
courts."
But other government sources
confirmed that shortly after the
May 30, 1961, assassination of
Trujillo, dictator of the Domini-
can Republic for 30 years, U. S.
intelligence officials decided to
rtIOWS
tap the phone lines at the Wash-
ington embassy.
High level officials at both the
White House and State Depart-
ment are said to have agreed
that such a move would be:
valuable to provide needed ?
intelligence information at a.
time when the Dominican:
government was in turmoil.
Executive Had Authority
The decision was made under
terms of an executive order
which allows government wire-
taps in cases of "national securi-
ty.". ?
The tapped conversations
apparently produced a good,deal
of information valuable not only
to the FBI, Central Intelligence
to the State Department but also
Agency enc. 'other intelligence
sources.
Baker, whose extensive out-
side business interests led to a
Senate investigation, apparently
called the embassy several
times to determine the status oi
Dominican business operations
in which he was interested.
Government officials said
phones at the Dominican Em-
bassy had been tapped intermit-
tently over a period of 16 to 15'
years.
They said other embassy1
telephone lines in Washington
also have been tapped at var;
ious times in the interest of,
"national security" but ernpha-,
sized that the practice is part of
a widespread pattern of interna-
tional espionage and other!
nations probably "bug" and tap'
U. S. embassies with far greater
frequency . than this country '
does. .
,
According to government'
testimony, those microphones.
were hidden in the offices of! ?
three Baker associates?Fred'
Black in Washington, Edward
Levinson in Las Vegas and
Benjamin Sigelbaum in Miami.
A search of FBI and Justice!
Department records also showed
that some of Baker's conversa-
? tions appeared in transcripts of ,
tapped telephone conversations;
at the Dominican Embassy...
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