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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190023-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: November 11, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN

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11 November 1957
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Washington (AP)-TWO GOVERNMENT WITNESSES TODAY LINKED WASHINGTON
ATTOR Y JOHN JOSEPH FRANK WITH ACTIVITIES IN BEHALF OF THE DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC,
FRANK, A FORMER FBI AGENT AND CIA ATTORNEY IS ON TRIAL IN FEDERAL
DISTRICT COURT ON CHARGES OF ACTING AS AN ASENT FOR GENERALISSIMO RAFAEL
TRUJILLO AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WITHOUT REGISTERING UNDES THE FOREIGN
AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT.
ALBERT C. FOI9 WHO IDENTIFIED HI)=L7 AS AN E!4PW1U OF THE CIA,
SAID "HE RECEIVED A JITTER FROM FRANK IN THE SUr OF 1955 IN WHICH FRANK
VINDICATED TO ME THAT HE WAS NOW DOING LEQAL WORK FOR .THE DOMINICAN EMBASSY
IN WASHINGTON."
FOX SAID THAT WHILE HE WAS OVERSEAS FRANK ACTED AS HIS AGENT II THE
RENTAL' OF FDI'S HOME.
ANOTHER WITNESS, MIMES J. AMBROSE, ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF
THE TREASURY IN CHAR?E OF LAM ENFOR NT ACTIVITIES, TESTIFIES THAT
FRANK INDICATED TO HIM IN JANUARY, 1956, THAT HE WRZMTED "GC ERAIENT
INTERESTS" WHICH INCLUDED THE MWPAPEa "EL CARIBE."
AMBROSE SAID HE WAS AT-THE TIME ADIQFIBTR&TIYE ASSISTANT TO THE UNITED
STATES ATTORNEY IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
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