RABORN WEAKNESS AS CIA HEAD BECOME APPARENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160042-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: December 3, 1965
• Content Type: TRANS

FOREIGN BROADCAST
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December 3, 1965
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RABORN WEAKNESSES AS CIA HEAD BECOME APPARENT
Moscow PRAVDA 3 December 1965--A
?(TASS report from New York: "CIA Does Not Like Publicity")
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(Text) Official circles continue to niae r
what really went on behind-the-scenes during U.S. intervention in the Dominican
Republic. This is emphasized in an article published in the St. Louis POST-
.DISPATCH by its Washington correspondent, Richard Dudman. He pointed out that
officials are trying to prevent publicatipn of the minutes of the closed sessions
which took place in the Senate Foreign Relatlons.Committee. The mairi,.xeason for
this is that these records would show the falsity of the "official" government
version regarding the reasons for sending`1several thousand American troops to the
Dominican Republic.
According to Dudman, there is yet another reason for keeping these sessions secret.
This concerns the personality of the CIA director himself, who played an important
role in de:72-ning American policy with regard to the Dominican Republic. As is
known, one of tho persons who gave the orders was CIA Direbtor Reborn, who proved
hir,Li1t to be not a particularly well-qualified expert although he was a key figure
in the Dominican intervention.
Some people who worked with Raborn during the crisis have confirmed that he is
unable to correctly pronounce the names of foreign countries and outstanding state
figures, that he is distinguished by a very weak memory, and that he behaves as if'
he had never before heard what was discussed in his presence five minutes earlier.
Officials do not refute these facts. However, one CIA official said that he
regretted that they had become public, "since this means that Reborn will stay at
his post for at least another year."
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