DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000500110002-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 21, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

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}~ owe their gains ath ng other reasons; The convention ended Wednesday. " "The rebel army that fought in the Sierra
he rotection they have from the inter- "After the singing of the national anthem Maestro [Casenclave] gives us an example
?R. AAsitlte complaints to and the communist Internationale," the of the different aspects of guerrilla warfare."
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Cb tfiitteeof the Organization of American MPD leader, welcomed the delegates, ob- Thus reads the last sentence of the first
States has been pressuring them to accept servers, and visitors." paragraph of a 4-page "Manual of Minimum
Hector Garcia-Goday as' provisional press- Elected to preside over the convention were
Rodriguez, vice president, and Arcadio Technique for the Realization of Revolu-
dent. secretary. tionary Sabotage."
LITTL$ pRESSVRV ~xE11T~5o Lopez-Molina, This manual is but one of many texts that
Co THRE")` TRAINED IN CUBA
1 Francisco A. Caamano has been sub- are being used in Dominican Communist
ssure frol the OAS ad-hoc Rodriguez spent 4 months training in Cuba schools. Another text is used for what the
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committee than has Brig. Gen. Antonio Im- in 1963. Lopez had been trained in Cuba in Communists list as a "Course in Civic Educa-
bert-$arrera and his government of national 1959 with his brother Maximo, who is in tion. "
reconstruction. Imbert"has been prevented exile. Ricart also underwent 4 months of "The socialist society is the first phase of
by the United States 'aril the -OAS from training in Cuba in 1963. the fifth economic-social formation in com-
annihilatirig the Communist rebels. Besides the MPD there are two Com- munism. The socialist society signifies the
The Communists hold ' an infinitely small munist Parties in the Caamano sector. Their most complete and profound social transfor-
sectQr of Santo Domingo, 'yet they have re- partisans are armed, as they have been since mation that is known.
ceived, and still' receive,-treatment as an the revolt erupted April 24. They are the "It is the end of all exploitation of man
alleged constitutional government by the Dominican Communist Party [POD], which by man upon passing to ownership by all of
OAS The United States knows, and so does until August 8 was known as the Popular the people the fundamental means of pro-
the OAS, that the government of Caamano Socialist Party [PSP], and the 14th of June duction that before were the property of a
1s no more a constitutional one than is that Revolutionary movement, which patterns it- handful of capitalists."
of Fidel Castro in Cuba. self after Castro's 26th of July Revolutionary In addition, Mr. Speaker, I place in the
The treatment and consideration accorded movement.
to,Caamano is a triumph for the effectiveness Also giving Caamano support is the infinite RECORD Mr. Dubois' special column, "Re-
of tl a worldwide, Communist-leftist-liberal minority Social Christian Revolutionary port from Latin America":
machinery, which formed a propaganda alli- Party (PRSC). These are Marxist Christians REPORT FROM LATIN 'AMERICA
ante to save Caamano and his Communists who broke away from the more moderate (By Jules Dubois)
from destruction. Christian Democrat leadership to adopt a DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,
While the numerical strength of the Com- course of violence. SANTO TO 21.-Some Latin DoAmerican BLIC,
monists might be only 10,000 inside the see- The PRSC goal is to try to proselyte Com-
tor,'their power lies largely in the fact that munist youth away from their parties and menns, especially Brazil, which has sent the
Washington has allowed them to cripple the incorporate them into the PRSC. largest Latin American contingent to the
Dominican economy for 4 months with no ALLIANCE BREEDS REVOLT Inter-American peace force here, are getting
end in sight. fed-up with rebel procrastination and the
NEGO2tA~E TI3RA$cH OAS It was the PRSC that formed an alliance United States policy of being nice to Col.
for subversion with ex-President Juan Bosch Francisco A. Caamano and his communist
1Kpreoyer, Washington has been using the and his Dominican Revolutionary Party supporters.
OAS as its negotiating instrument since the [PRD] early this year, which culminated in They have been proposing alternate for-
White House advisory group had to return to the April 24 revolt. PRSC leaders flew to mules and urging increased pressure to force
the capital -after its political offensive to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and signed the pact Caamano to accept the Organization of
dump Imbert failed last May. Washington with Bosch. American States proposal to end the fight-
has, applied tremendous economic pressure The PRSC defines its philosophy in its mg here, which he won't. They are beeom-
against Imbert, the man-it begged to take party organ, Pueblo, which is published in- .mg more critical of the tolerance by the
power on may 7 so the Communists could be side the rebel sector. The issue of July 31, United States of the dilatory tactics of the
mopped up and order restored. and it will be noted that it differs little from rebels.
A, political solution is supposed to be in that of the Communists, reads: Like the American troops who are here,
the, negotiation stage. The Imbert govern- "The central question of our time is the the Brazilians, the Hondurans, the Nica-
ment has accepted the proposed "final agree- transit of the capitalist society to the new the B raguans, the Paraguayans, and the Costa
meat" which the OAS committee submitted society. We call this new society contmuni- Ricans wonder what they are doing here.
August 9. Caamano and his Communists tartan. Their commanders are irritated by the in-
have, on the other hand, been toying with "This transit is what we understand as sults in the rebel press and radio although
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farces from
and intimidating the OAS, whose negotiat- revolution in liberty. The capitalist struc- they are protecting Caaan
jug committee has more 'than once patiently ture will only be eliminated when the land extinction by the government of national
turned the other cheek to be slapped again by and other productive means of social char- extinction
reconstruction.
them. aster are in the hands of the workers." the Brazilians have docu-
Caamano has resorted desperately to the The above parties are the backbone of the It is mented known m that unist tha Bral of the have docuo
U.N., hoping he can bring the Security Coun- Caamano support. The PRD elements of forces. it is also known that the Brazil-
cii back Into, the act as a friend in court. Bosch are insignificant both in numbers and fans, who are sensitive to any possible gains
The Communists are confident that Russia in militia. Some of Bosch's intellectual by the Communists, are anxious to clean out
would make sure that all would be neutral friends and former cabinet ministers, such as the rebel nest in a small, but vital, pocket
in favor of the rebels` under Iron Curtain Sylvestre Antonio-Guzman, who had to be of the city here.
pressure. ' discarded as the White House choice to re-
OAS negotiators, especially Ambassador place Imbert, are used as fronts to stall nego- CITE REBEL INDOCTRINATION OF YOUTHS
Ellsworth Bunker,of the United States, were tiations with the OAS. They have noted that thousands of youths
perennially optimistic that Caamano would FRIEND TIED TO CASTRO are being indoctrinated and trained in the
come to agreement. That optimism has Moreover, in addition to the PRD window rebel sanctuary to become saboteurs and
proved unjustified. guerrillas. They say that these youths will
RgDS PRINT HATt STORIES dressing, Hector Aristy, "minister of the be used to set the entire country aflame.
presidency" for Caamano, admits a close
The Communist newspaper Patria, one 'of friendship with Francisco Juliao, former President Johnson sent troops here to pre-
two dailies published in the rebel zone, dis- peasants league leader of northeast Brazil. vent a second Cuba, but then the military
seniinaies its hate-America propaganda, Aristy says he spent some time with Julian machine was halted. Then when the troops
while the two principal newspapers of the in Recife, Brazil, where he met Juliao when of the Imbert government were prevented
cottntiy, El Caribe and Listin fiario-whose the latter was in his prime as a friend of from completing the mopup of the Commu-
plants are located in the zone-have no guar- Fidel Castro. nist rebels and a phony cease-fire was im-
antees to publish. The editor of the former In the last 2 months, the Communists, posed to save Caamano, the cause was all but
is attacked costatantly by the Communists. with full consent of Caamano and his min- lost.
Tuesday, El Caribe headlined the cold inter of defense, Col. Manuel Ramon Montes- Imbert is no saint, but there are, very few
reaJtty that negotiations are Stalemated, and Arache, have been indoctrinating and train- saints in this Republic. He entered the pic-
th~t Caamano again had carried the case to ing militia recruited throughout the country. ture on May 7 when the United States begged
thg OAS under a three-column headline on The training takes place inside the Caamano him to head a provisional government of na-
sage one in the same edition, It published a sector, and includes a course for frogmen, tional reconstruction. The name of the gov-
report of the first session of a preliminary the specialty of Montes-Arache. ernment was, according to Imbert, suggested
oodventicn held in the rebel sector of the Several "military academies" are in opera- by John Bartlow Martin, the special repre-
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Approved For Release, 2003/10/15: CIA-RDP67BQ0446R000500110002-3