DOMINICAN CIVIL WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090083-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: May 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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munist takeover was behind the assignment of
Marines to that Caribbean nation.. ~
Reports reaching Washington tell of people be-
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r 'What apparently began as. a popular spontan ng lined up against walls and buildings in Santo 1
ous uprising in the Dominican Republic suddenl ominga and -shot to the cries of "paredon"
has degenerated into a bloody, full-scale civil w . ~ (meaning: "bo the wall"), a maneuverwhich will i
immediately familiar to those acquainted with
Forces supporting ex-President Juan Bosc ominunist .techniques. Ocher reports tell of
have lost control of the uprising. On Thursday med bands and terrorists. looting and sacking
former official of Bosch's party went on the mil - ornes in the residential areas of Santo Domingo..
a few nights ago said they.; were told : b'Y CI ? ~ snm'ply arawn ~nan ac prvbCna, ~i1Ci c ,~ ?~~.o
irectp~'_Willia~_F Raborn._that_f~ar of_e?~ .more Washington can do_except watch .and. wait..
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~mumsts of Ca~tra tirigin." And two members governmen in e m c p ~
~['nnoraca wt,n warn hriafarl i;v Praai~lant tnhnrn ~ Pess the Battle lines suddenly become more,
tary-controlled radio and disavowed responsibili j
for the growing fighting, saying the rebels It is rnisl.eading to interpret the Dominican
longer had the party"s support. The ~ revolt no evolt simply as one between Communists and
is in the. hands of a relatively small number f on-Communists. Like mast civil wars, -this cuts?
wel?1-armed Communists and pro-Communists. cross doctrinal and class lines. But there can
Despite Washington insistence that U:S~ Morin icipationnaxt~iang the rebels.t of Communist par-
and paratroopers were sent to the Dorn~iniar~n R -
public solely to protect U.S..lives and proper Thus U.S. foreign policy is on the spot. It can-
Ithere i~s evidence, that the official explanati not afford the emerge~ice of another Castro-like
pis only partially correct. :government on its liernispheric doorstep; yet. that
Re . L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the? Hous is a likely possibility should the rebels defeat the'
p 'loyalist troops. Nor can it afford to side with the'
!Armed Services Committee, said that the landin ~prcrgovernment forces, w~ha in the eyes of many ~
Hof U.S. troops was aimed gat preventing a takeav non-Communist Dominicans are opponents oP ~
Eby Communist #arses directed by Fidel Cast . ;democratic government.
;Sen. Henry M. Jackson of the Senate Foreign R president Johnson acted ro erl when he sent
lotions Committee, after ?a Briefing by..Defens ~ p p y
Secretary McNamara, also said that the troo ~ troops to protect U.S. lives and property. And
were sent because of agitation by "definite Co the U.S. has a right to oppose a Communist
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