THE INVISIBLE STATE DEPARTMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300430031-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: October 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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"The Invisible State Departmen
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?~ pe,sons 'mono, on the territory of
who seek to influence legislation out ,'Shnnnon Ai hich the Dublin
rport is now ltd hidfh
ocae,as `his, men"
se o te regular legislature". `? in Washington
Uumv. 'Jut
byism has become such an influential factor in U
nited ca+nee pressure groupswoperati ?7 in the
%,u,aeress or the "Invisible State Department".
h
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tt
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e
a
e usually resort to their-help when it 0 N May 25, 1965, the Washingglnn Dail
~ew
is necessary to rush throu
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t:,,
s
y
g
gy accusing Antonio'
to prevent the passage of a bill affecting their Guzman ? ev_Min store
r
of A
among which bribery, intrigue' and lackmail swindling operations. The publicat on aimed to
are not the least. This typically American insti discredit the
blic'
macnine is subordinated to the will of the mo- was ~?i; }esolve the uominican crisis. i,
Nunucal groups, and also various U.S. mono- vtSPn~+~Q'a; V1 Lae uominican Republic.
e
o
c es gnate the activities of agents who; to carry not i+C .,n.,, a a , Induced Washington" ;
agents
- ~~~ ???. - aai forces, the Dominican lobby in the firsty~place, ?~
Washington in the post-war period. This term'.; which a month earli
is used t
l
h d
w Ic wants to bend it to its selfish , ,had renrece-,+arl nT p'' who for many years
su
prepares
1
in keen struggle between rival anonopoly cliques, of the F.B f and th Irving Davidson, an agent:
each of h' h
au.as aa~urva.u. publication of the smear ...s, ~aau
Washington's foreign policy is u
'ii h article was
- - t'?-??-~ ~a ~aaas lu-' tact with. the State Department andu
visible State the U.S.
be partin have assumed such:: Central A
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e Dominican lobydates back t
Foreign Relations Committee had to u
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ays ocator Truiillo_ who em
an investigation of the
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p
i u .ern aavei i anon was eventual l soft- "? ..Y,.?l.~s uperating in that country.
pedalled, it brourrht out in r,er+;,..,1 _ I y r_ In his book Trujillo: The Lnca r?nn ._ A
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... au cuVl I Ill -- vy .SIC Lu-
exercise pressure on Washing ton's foreign oli.. ; minican o yists in Washington. The system of
p g
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cy fir, 1944 th
ey
o an ordinary Congressman was not
t
more tha 5
..,., ^Na ..IUU'u 1vwui~..' -w -.. rte-.C-.UU11. Arley
ton Seagham Donough VI, who; lays.,claim to even e'a had special scale of bribe rates. The
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
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FOIAb33tober 1965