CIA'S 'CANNED GOODS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400020004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 1, 1965
• Content Type: REPORT

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CIA's "CANNED GOODS"
Moscow, O onek, No 41,
. oct 1965 PP-U., .15, 26 CPYRGHT
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.By Vl. Zhukov and V. Idstov
On the night9 of 5 September, lit Col Joe Wierich, US Military Attache in
Santo Domingo, and CIA employee David Phillips visited the Dominican dictator
Wessin. They announced to the surprised general that he must leave the country
and gave him a $50,000 "pay-off". But Wessin rejected the offer.
It was then decided in Washington to take "extreme measures". On the
evening of 9 September, the rebellious puppet was taken to the airport
under armed guard., deposited in an American military helicopter, and sent
to Puerto Rico under escort.
Such "strong-arm methods" regarding its faithful servant are not
anything out of the ordinary for American policy in the Dominican
Republic. For a week prior to General Wessin's expulsion, the US CIA forced
its other puppet in Santo Domingo, General Antonio Imberto, head of "military-
civilian junta;" "into retirement."
The Moors bad, done their duty-they could go. Trying to preserve its
supremacy in the Dominican Republic, yankee imperialism not only overthrows
governments unsuitable to it, but also cold bloodcdly writes off puppets
when these cease to be useful to it.
US policy in the international arena is generally characterized by
brutality, cynicism, and perfidy difficult to find an equal for. It is
for that reason that official American propaganda has received with
hostility' the' Soviet proposal at the current UN session "On the
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