$5-MILLION TRUJILLO PAYOFFS IN U.S. ALLEGED BY AIDE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000800010008-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 21, 1963
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DEC211963
by Maj. Gen. Pedro R'driguesl-eW York public relations man.
$5-Million Trujillo Payoffs in tr. S. Alleged by Aid
By PETER YDI98 Echavarria, briefly strong man Mr. Ernst had written Mr. 1Trujillo an "bribes and publti
A former Dominican chief ofIas Secretary of the Armed Damn a letter about an admis- relations."
Forces. He was himself ousted, slam by the C.I.A. of a link
intelligence contends that "at in January, 1962. with Mr. Galindez. Mr. Baron One "price list" the d repo ha , least $5,000,000" was showered For the last two years, Mr.l said ' It may be that there was ed d
Mordinary ir R said, report
) "d epr5
on "some U. S. Congressmen Espa111at has been a wandering such a memorandum, but I have".woululd cost R cost about $5,,0000 of
0 d
hand State Department officials" (exile in the Caribbean and Can-Imo immediate recollection of it."ltess " a few House chairmer
by the late Generalissimo Ra- ada. He contends he is ready Mr. Espaillat charged that"about three times that much,'
fact Leonidas Jo tell what he knows about the C.I.A. shipped disassembled!genators "higher" and key Sen.
Trujillo Molina inlthe alleged payoffs but says he'wespons to the Dominican Re-ate chairmen "$50,000 tc
the last five years of the dic-lis being shunted from one coun-!public starting late in 1960 fori$75,000,?.
i tator's life. (try to another as a result of the plotters who assassinated: Sex lures were em to
Arturo R. Espaillat, who was1United States pressure. Generalissimo Trujil o the f''I-' p Yed Mr.
! F.apaillat wrote. Again without
Consul General here in 1956 soil Book Published lowing Mayy. i The Henry Regner Company' The State 'naming names, he said the
1937, asserts that Dominican of Chicago ed in Noeviously deniedhargeDepartment Mr shipped provided a a blonde
(documents showing and I Y for "a State Department offi-
!other incriminatinfiles, "a offs have!ber a 190-page book, "Trujillo: lat United In the e !ation. Bot States' M . visiting their capital,
B The Last Caear," by Mr. ; C.I.A. ssy
shioff a Palace girl to the
'long since been removed tolEspaillat. This describes the as-:D?ed and me rat a have de-,~y~hingtnn emb to be
Washington by the State De screed payoff activities but doesipailld to comment a rats Ea- .,
patllat's current statements. readily available" fer one
partment." not directly name any recipients.; prominent Southern Snntoon
Now 42 years old Mr. Es , and sent another to
He
In Ottawa, Jean-Charles Sir- anent min also says the files have paillat Is a graduate of the ..
isince He "apparently disappeared oIs Mr. Espaillat's lawyer, said United States Militar AC d-) to become the permanent ess-
from sight. " He nedlthat Mr. Espaillat, at a news em ' tress of a New York Con rss-
naes as of om the recipients named Tru? I conference in Ottawa on Sept. y at West t. Of eSt to mom" g
fr
]li me funds. 19, 1962, named a leading! Security from July to November! In 1ruj i through said,
, he
a a mid lte-
In Ws. State Depart- United States Representative limo Ttnlo ,0 dlto
Washington, f951, one of his country's most ug
1 meat officials dented Mr. Es- and four Senators as atlegedlhued men Iman "turned over ;73,000 to
paillat's assertions, '! hey said recipients of Trujillo money.( After Generalissimo Trujillo's a powerful Atlantic seaboarfl
Do- Mr. Espaillat said then that; ,th, he went to Nassau, to Senator," but received in return
minicar records. They such Do- there was in the Dominican R.-!Curacao and then back Communists in the Carib
pand rlonly a single speech Caribbean.
cin?:
they that t had they not would acquired not sucbeh sur- pubblic a complete "list of thelforth in French and Dutch added !prised by what they called "ab-'American officials being paid,tions of St. Martin Island in the "Altogether, payoffs to that one
surdities" from Mr. Eapaillat,loff," with amounts of the p ay,West Indies until he made his~$enator totaled about 3225,000,"
,whom they called one of the;offs. way to Canada on Nov. 4, 1961. Mr. paillat wrote. the ez
his Tr jillo r gime's most unsavory I ed thbo k, r. W Espa plat Dullesas-,, Order Deported i ppssiilat wrote that Mr. Duutr.~
A deportation order atnst as C.I.A. director, had called]
They disclaimed interest 1 (then director of the Central In- ag
talking to Mr. Espaillat, who telligenee Agency in 1958 in- Supreme Court Canada was ts in Oupheld by tot Ernst to Washington and
was once the target of United duced Morris L. a New. the Mr. Q the lawyer that exposures
; a 4-to-1 decision last Oct. 1 1. to>. of Mr. aatindez's financial ac-i
States notes in the disappear- York lawyer, to refrain from InWashington
ante of Jesus de Galindez. exposing evidence about Mr.l , State Depart- cavity against Franco Spain,
Galindez, a Columbia University meat ecofficials ently said Mr >Cspalll d would "Imperil
le. the lives of 400!
Records Examined professor and Basque represen?!8ta visa~ In rbid for a eturn for thforr- to 400 pea le." This, Mr. Es-
Records of the Trujillo regime tative in exile, who dsaappeared' tisp&ft sue t s 'w led Mr. Ernst to'
'have been examined In Santo here in March956. am he said Government would be of 1n? sated a lion of his f ngs,"
Domingo at various times by Mr. Espaillat said this evi?!t tat-e ~e visa this
was denied, they lasted sp his (
a reporter for The New York dente showed that Mr. Galindez' vdeniedd, , ~~ said; Later, , Mr. Mr. a E lath sa saidid, r.
, Mr,
Times. Thus far no documents had received C I.A money for but was interviewed by two em-; Ernst wrote a letter to Mr..
(showing such payoffs haver in an effort to overthrow,bassy~Bce Can maadd 7 ian in court up- court up- ;seekilseekin Aug, 12, 195A,!
turned up. I the Franco regime in Spain. I Attarthe Cng to reopen the report,
Dominican security officials, Mr. Ernst investigated the Gal- held the deportation only Mr. Mr. Cp.1. tat said this referred
said agents of the old Milftary! 'indes case for the Trujillo Gov-:Bat when decided to go home,lto the e A.'s recovering a final:
Intelligence Service destroyedernment. On June 1, 1958 he'But hen .he landed in Santo $1,240 check it had sent to
some files between May 30, reported that he had cleared 'stopped on Oct. 9, he was Mr. Mr. E+n.'c. in Febrrtt? 1 Es-
the date of the dictatt,r's assas~lthe Trujillo 'stopped and put aboard a lane
regime of any role p Mr. Erast's letter, Mr. Es-
the .for Martinique.
sinatfon, and Jan. 1, 1962, whenlin the scholar's disappearance. pa"Whsaid, went on:
an Interim Council of State He declined to comment this' In Ottawa,
er en 8irdis forced underground a groan Galindez was pee killed ! took over. ( week on Mr. Espaillat's changes Expaitlat last month
~O~ governments had ffirst Communists rrand or a C. by td
Other files are believed tolabout the C.I.A. Ito Martinique, lBrit- or the C.I.A., I do
leave anA tthen Brit-knot know."
have been sent out of the cuntry However, Sydney S. Baron, a;im (3ufwn. n?e *t,... ,r,,,.,w.w
or a ong time thereafter.
He said Mr. Ernst and his stiff
"worked very closely with the
C.I.A." and other agencies. -.
s w
e and three chit-
assignment, and we cooperatedldren live, have since been re.
,with these and other agenciesfjected. He is now in an immi-
all during the investigation and1gration, detention house in
gatlon, commented:
"Mr. Ernst and I consulted
with the White House and the
State, Justice and other depart-
meats before we undertook this
He finally bought a lane.
ticket to Paris by way of To-
ronto.
When he got off in Toronto
Nov. 21, he was rearrested.
His pleas to stay in Canada,
where hi
if
k
In his book, Mr. Espaillat as-
serted "hundreds" of Americans
shared in $5 million to $10 mil-
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