ASSASSINATION BUREAU INC.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200570033-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: December 31, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

December 31, 1)bb T rrili~7lrtL~u,
(New Delhi;,.'India)
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revolution. For these Washington
partners and former protectors,
? , Trujillo had become too hot-
headed. The U.S. intelligence was
while it,was not too late, that is
before he would bring his nation
to the point of explosion which'
put an end to Batista's dictator-'
my 45 o au oma- Lawrence 1err y, Inc e owner o a
tic I fired two shots. One supermarket in the Dominican
bullet hit Trujillo in the chin, capital. It was through Berry that
the other in the chest.' He reeled'' the American intelligence service
fell to 'the floor, and lay there :established and , maintained
over, spread-eagled, motionless.", contacts with the former mayor'
t'he above passage is from a , of Santo 'Domingo, Luis Amiata
coldblooded account by Antonio.-,', Tio. Berry put Tio in contact with
Imbert, the former governor of the the special-representative of the,
2ucrto Plata province in the Do- American intelligence service
of Plato Cox.
sination on May 30' 1961, of . ;
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who for thirty years had ruled the
r nation with an iron . hand of Also, through Tio, Trujillo's
ruthless dictatorship. Trujillo wasi childhood friend, General Juan
killed by the agents of the North ' Tomas Dias, the ' Defence Minis-
American intelligence service and ..r.
..ter General Jose Roman Ernan-'
the report was published by The ?dez, lumber manufacturer Anto-
New York Times.
nio de la Mas, and Pedro Livio
Imbert was one of the key. Cedemio had been involved in the '
fgures in . the plot engineered. by. assassination plot.
the North American intelligence The conspirators obtained':
known under the assumed, name'
vv capons , rn ivic-al ~,uus s . , -
. tightly sealed in large metal cans: ?
In its issue of August 13, 1963, , . ' ' But when everything was '
the American magazine New 'Re- ;.ready, an unexpected order came
public concluded that Trujillo was from Washington. - It said, in.`
not killed without the participa= brief, that because of the failure
tion of the Central Intelligence of the landing in Cuba . organised
Agency. The magazine pointed out by the CIA on April 17; 1961,,
that 'the U.S. Consul in Santo the assassination of Trujillo
, Henry Dearborn, and the chief k
late, John Barfield took part in
' Barfield was one of the key CIA
He acted throughh is as
.r?~ln_ American intelligence is by going unprotected to his La.
celebrated best-seller, American
Shadow over India. His other
'book, From Hiroshima fo Ban-
But the machinery of the plot
had already been operating full.
blast at the time. On May 30 ,
1961, late at night Trujillo- was.
assassinated on, the road from.',
Santo Domingo to San Cristobal.
Antonio Imbert stopped the
limousine in which Trujillo, was
year Old mistress Mona Sanchez'
was waiting for him. Twenty, seven
shots were fired at Trujillo.
policies in Asia uptill- 1955. The seize power., But the American
present work is going'to beseriali intelligence service . reached its .
sed in Mainstream during the next goal ?: a'man had been liquidated
few weeks. who by his ,ruthless dictatorship
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Domingo (then Cuidad Trujillo),,,,,;, ' should be delayed.
The conspirators ' ' failed to
ship in Cuba in 1959 and resulted'
in a tangle 'of complex problems.
for Washington to solve in. that
,..,Conspirators Liquidated
The following incident is note-
worthy. When the authorities of
the Dominican Republic got to
'..:'killed many of the conspirators
as well. General Dias was shot
dead in the street, General Ernan
''dez was tortured to death, and
only two participants in the con-
spiracy, Luis Amiama Tio and
Antonio Imbert were left alive.
.:.The North American participants
in the plot went completely un-
scathed. Consul Dearborn, Coun- '
Berry safely reached the United
market in the centre of the Domi-
nican capital. Following the bloody
events of 1961', Dearborn was
appointed Consul in Columbia.-
Barfield filled a post ill the State
Department. in the offce of Under
Secretary for Inter-American
I Affairs,
The assassinations of political
E-'enemies and people who had
!'ceased being of use for Washing-
ton, have become an imoprtant,
'national policy. 11115 bloody
instrument has been legalised in a
special law?on the basis of Which
a system of centralised intelligence
has been established in that
country. This law, brought into
force, on July 26 1947, and is
known' as the National Security
1 'Act of 1947. The Act unified the
direction and administration of the
three services of the United States
armed forces, in the Defence De-
partment and instituted the Central
? 'Intelligence Agency.
The 'passing of this law had
been preceded by heated debates
in...the Congress and 'beyond