2 LINK FRANK TO DOMINICANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300190024-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 22, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

Secretary Testifies
Sara T. Newc
daho ave. nw.,
prosecution wi
terday. Mrs.
secretary to k'
nary to April,
tense Attorrya
Carey vigoro ,~
testifying o
Frank's law
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Sanitized - Approved"Fo
ominicans
By Morrey Dunle
Attorngy John-Joseph- Frank, accused of failing to
;register as an agent for the Dominican Republic and
cenerallssinio ` Rafael Trujillo, yesterday was linked to
ominican activities by two prosecution. witnesses.
Fr k, 42year-Qld former
4131 eat d one-tlttie lawyer
for, . the Central ; Iii nos
Agency, is being tr a
dale, Va., a CIA employe, told
the jury yesterday that 'lie re-
ceived a letter from Frank in
Frank "stated he was not do-
lng legal work for the Domini-
can Embassy in Washington."
The witness said Frank' was
then acting as his agent
4i.ental of his home
Tells of 1956 Talk
to the Secretary of the Trea-1
sury in charge of law enforce-'
s e n t e d Dominican "govern-f 14
merit Interests" in the Doinin1- "
can newspaper El Caribe.
Ambrose said he wa&admin-
istrative.assistant to the
United States Attorney In the
Southern Diatric of New York
when Frank visited his office
Frahk told him that German
E. Ornes, erstwhile Trujillo
collaborator who is now a'vo-
litical exile, had 'absconded
with $14,000 of El Caribe
money, Ambrose said. He
added that Frank requested an
investigation of the mattes.
"My understanding was that
he (Frank) was representing
government interests," Am-
brose told the Jut),
Land Judge
James R.. Kirkla
he declined to pro
the principal at
$1 Caribe.
,614U Y 4 Z iyu f
Kirkland - rut d that Mrs.
lewcomer could not. i
bout such pttersz_;b
that a secretary is an agent
of the. ipwyer and the priv-
ileged relationship 'i;-etwean
the lawyer and the client also
covers the secretary.,
Earlier yesterday, O r n e a,
former editor of El Caribe,
testified that there is "no free-
dom of. .,,the `press In' the
dtri Jail'
and De.
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