TRUJILLO SON WAS DISAPPOINTMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300200023-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: June 4, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

U10
fl~r Drew :Pe rr'xbri
eyes," and that. this, brought
an even more vigorous protest
from this -Minister in Washing-
time I met, Rafael TruJi,
t he, late ....dictator. of : the
nminican Republic. It was In
tus in Santo
Domingo, J the
city near
pher
'Colum- bus first sight-
; ed the new
! world. Inter re-
named 'Tru-
jillo City by
It he man who
Ptarson
, It was a but, Sultry night it
August, 1031, and Trujil p
1 had -been in power not more
I.than about a year. I had Wr t?
ten a series of articles on hi n
for the Baltimore attn dill
" rrunllo'c record for, mail eih.
hexzlement, cattle thieve ,
and attempted Assassinatlo ?
,'she Dominican legation
Washington didn't ' like " e
articles, complained bitter
i told the Minister' l: was
in.g to the Carribbean .a d
v,oulrl be glad to talk to e
dictatur. I gave the exact ti e
~ot my arrival.
Actually -l- never"w expect
to see Trujillo: But as I s t
. in* the hotel dining roo
there was a rustle of eXci
ment and the-hotel tnanag r
conducted him to my table.
lie was young: and slen
aqd handsome in those da a;
with flashing- brown eyes. e
the hotel tj5,anagcr produc}d
ton. Trujillo -reseritod . this
description more'- than, being
called a cattle thief ora mail
emberaler.
Biggest Disappointment
I went back to' the Domtnt?
can Republic shortly after
Castro came into power ' in
Cubit: The old -Faustus was
gone, and beautiful hotels
lined the Caribbean'. water-
front. Dictatora,':T have found,
always build beautiful hotels.
. Trujillo had given, a birth.
day party in' one of these
hotels:. His son was Invited.
He came -- but only for 10
minutes:-then went on to a
night club with two lady
friends.
This- highlighted' Trujillo's
biggest disappointment. When
he sent Rafael to the Army
Staff and Command School
at Fort ,Leavenworth. Kan,,
he expected big things. Rafael
was to be trained to take over
the "Repubtle." - But .. Rafael
spent b1l time - snd money
giving mink a1s and. im-
ported. clra ta, 1$avak' and
2 a a -%aa ' r N a l i o , ,e-"bad`; :5 f
annual allbtftance from Papa
of Jt50p00:. aril when You have
this much money .:to' spent
and have been made a colonel
in the Dominican.Army at?tltia,
age.of?6, with troops saluting you right and left, , what can;
a father expect. ~;t!
being ordered by a soldier to
i4'pl}t on. the other aide
. >yTr`uflhlo, despiteleis braggri+
doclo, was a very scared die-
!star. He always wbre 'a hub
letprbof vest, espite *,,small
holster on his .left tide.,
fie also imported 100 tough
Spanish Falangists. tralneo.by
Franco's secret service, as his
bodyguard. ' , ' r
Trujllo owned.id villas scat.,
tered around the "Dominican
Republic, but he' didn't even
trust his own staff: When ,he
left the capital, he would order
t
*CPYRGH
the'meitti t reCeividd, from'
the'Dlct ar.?i~t Cont'tesamap Don Jack?
son of California,' Republican
--who txihuti ntly defended
Truf illo. t acid` 'even made ' a'
a speech on "the."floar of the
H o ua e o Represenfatiyes
praiainittthe "Dmnl ilcan' Con- i
t .as -better parltmentary
fotrum; tha an,the Americari_Con-
'Jag lraon chose not to run for
reelection. He had told
friends in the Caribbean that
he ,planned to take a house in
the Dominican 'Republte and
retire ' ip ' that" "placid ' place- ''
N6V`1t,won't`be'ao Pl Id.
Porter,
in contralt Ito Jack-
,
his -chauffeur to drive him to'son, kept bat itg ttwap`at the
'
one particular,-villa, then, 1Q dictatots,'from:;Perez Jimenez
miles out of the city, issue new In, VenegUelg:to +'irran in
orders to go to- A different Spain It didn ;help '14
po-
villa. iitieally gr.finAnciall}+ Re:was a
When Trujillo cazne'to Wash- defiestett last`Novernbet .. 'r
ington_ afvance bodyguard! ar?4'0~?ttpR~1il8,.tiatrarsibtoate xnc.'
aouba-u. DV I4&I.r }Rw.UMI,W1
mole elaborate than those for
the President' , of .the Unite4'
obtrti?ive plainclotheimef, one
of `the~1 John; r
fort(Ipi~I~ a ,
Tko;jEx.Congetsatmen ;,?
.Twa, former Congressmen
are receiving the news of ,Tru.
jillo's death with. , opposite
emotions. They are',
Ex?CoDSressman C t a fj ,y
Porter of Ure(on,-betpocrat~
?pvho bed&~nn'battling: against
Truf illo aimoat froin `-the,Jllrst
minute he. entered.-Congresic.
that the ron?in;l4a7.' flf : ,John
I have forgotten exactly w been a dozen or so attempts
Trujillo said, and` can't f dIou. Trujillo's life before the
the copy of my subseque one which finally succeeded,
suory. I do_'temember, h As a result, Trujillo City was
Jtllo as ' having "bedroom
month guest o# e''Dictator,
and that Matnis . isenhower's
brother indsw;l 1; , Ctordon
Moore, had bees on ed tit' s
business.,det't1 wLtk rttf ilio.