HINT BAKER LINK TO BOSCH BACKERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100250008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 19, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By DAVID KRASLOW
Los Angeles Times Special
Washington, D. C. Thel
central intelligence agencey
I ( IAj. reported last March that
f rmer senate majority 'secre-
t ry Bobby ' Baker may have
;I b en working with financial
`lb ckers of Juan Bosch, former
p esident of the' Dominican
public.
This was learned Thursday
f m secret testimony taken by
t e, senate foreign relations
c mmittee last July during its
investigation of United States
i tervention in the Dominican
r bellion.
Testimony of CIA Director
1111am F. Reborn, Undersec-
r tary of State Thomas Mann
a d other. high administration
The testimony covered a wide
ange of United States military,
iplomatic intelligence and ec-
nomic involvement in t h e
ominican Republic before andf
fter a coup was launched on
prril 24 against the regime of
onald Reid Cabral.
Baker's name. was brought
nto the hearings by Sen. Hick-
nlooper (R-Iowa).
Hickenlooper asked Mann if
e had any knowledge that
aker. was "working in collab-
ration" with Diego Bordas and
ose Benitez, both friends of
aker and who reportedly were
elping to bankroll Bosch.'
"This information, I think,"
ann said, "is included In a I
IA report dated the 18th, of
arch, 1965 . 'I have no
o icials still is* classified as nowledge except whaiie' con- 4
" eccet." ined in, thin reportce."
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