DOMINICAN PERSPECTIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200800004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-
PHILADr t,r HIA, PA.
INQUIRER
IN. 603, 4138
~S. 983,643
~n ~aY 2 2 1965
CPYRGHT
DOMINIIN PERSPECTIVE'
To the Editor of The Inquirert
The unfortunate t u r n of
events in the Do'minican' Re-
public points up the lack of
long-range perspective among
our thinkers in Washington. {
We now have another potential.
Cuba on our hands, but a Cuba
ki Wht
of our own mang.a would, happen if our Marines
withdrew? Does anyone doubt
that the military junta would
be overthrown in the matter
of. a few days?
Now we ate there indefinite-
ly. How long will our troops
remain? One we e k?, Twenty
I weeks? A hundred w e e k s?
How many of our men will it:
take to defend a military re-
gime which is hated by its own
1 people? (For details, look at
South Vietnam.)
The tragedy of the affair is
that the Dominican Republic
once had its own elected gov-
ernment, under Juan Bosch. It
is undeniable that Bosch was..
anti-Ca in in u n i s t. That was
fine. 'However, he also was in-
He wanted his
dependent.
country to develop its own re-
sources, to run its own plants.
This idea was unthinkable to
the American corporations
who had exploited the island
f or many years. In classic
manger, therefore, the-Q4.4.1,
and other American agents,
saw to it that Bosch was ex-
pelled and a military Junta
installed in his place.
The military did not solve
the problem. It rarely keews
how to handle the complexity.
of.. civilian problems. At any,
rate, civil liberties were sus-
pended; living conditions de-
teriorated, and the people were.,
driven to the point where they:
wished to have their former
,'elected government restored.;
They had ovgrthrown the jun-
ta when we intervened. Now'
the Dominican people see de
mocracy as a power to sup?
(port reaction. They have been'
!anti-Communist. If and whex.
they regain their freedom, will,,
theg hp. sn In the future?
B. FORER ;
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