FEDERAL JURY PUSHING QUIZ OF GALINDEZ CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300200018-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: May 14, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

MAY 14 1957
NEW YORK P Toved For Release 2003/12/02: CIA-RDP75-00001 R
Circ.: e. 408,150
S. 271,019
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Federal Jury
Pushing Quiz of
Galindez Cage
>pecial to the,New York Post I
Washington; May 14-A federal;
grand jury ''todaiy, continued to
dig into= the Galindez case after,
indicting an' ex-FBI man, on
charges of acting for the Domin-
ican Republic without registering
as a foreign agent,
Named in the indictment was!
John Joseph Frank, 42, a Wash-
ington attorney who worked for
the FBI from 1941 to 1949 and,
later was employed by the super-;
secret ;ag Agen-;
cyy before'Te r nng to private prat
tine.
Frank, "also known as John
Kane;" was an unregistered Do-
minican agent from about May,
1954, to the present, according to
the four-count indictment:
It was reported that the indict-
rent was- only the first result of
the grand jury's investigation of
activities in this country . by ,
agents of the Dominican dictator, !
Rafael Trujillo.
The grand jury investigation
.was prompted by the mysterious .
disappearances of Dr. Jesus de
Galindez, -a Columbia University
instructor and bitter fog of Tru-
jillo, and Gerald Murphy, an
American flier.
G a l i n d e z vanished in New
York City in March,. 1956. It has
been charged by his friends that
he was murdered or ' kidnaped
and taken to the Dominican Re-1
public by Trujillo supporters.
Later in the year Murphy, who
had been employed by a Domini-
can air line, dropped out of sight
in that country after telling his
friends that. he had flown a "sick" !
man he believed to be -Galindez
from New York to the Domini-
can Republic. The U. "S. State
Dept. has rejected the Dominican
explanation of Murphy'.s disap-,
pearance.
STAT
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