SAYS DOMINICAN RED INFLUENCE OVERRATED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300160001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For, Release 2003/12/03i CIA-RDR
DETROIT, MICH.
NEWS
E. 701-9935
a. 926,200
;some Communists among the.
min scan Republic have found'
ttP 2219E5
Says Pqxm' can Red
Influence Overrated I
To the Editor,:,,. The effi ..
eient and.well?staffed teams.
of CIA,. .informers in the Do-
rebels. They have come up
w i t h only, it handful, . less,
than a hundred,.in a popu
lation. of almost. 3' million
people in the. little nation,
'but even that `number `suf-I
fices to. permit Mr. Rusk to'
sweep, the. real issues under;;
the ru.gr`,
The. standard -American`.
tactic of ignoring the basic'
forces of conflict-the strug-
gle` of downtrodden peoples !
everywhere for freedom, and''
relief 'from poverty and suf-
fering-and concentrating on
the Communist menace, has,,'
given communism a prestige
that it could not win by its-:
own arrogance.
European countries s u c
as the Scandinavian' coun
tries, Italy and France, have
millions of Communists;
among their electorate and i
representation in their legis-
.~~.~~uJ!?SEP~G01~4N'r~
as . to be. fought- with `a
better" idea:
idea with military night. It_d
problems than , the Commudj
nists could come up with.
It'is impossible to fight an .4
lative assemblies. : < ; .
These countries have..
'fought. communism by pro-
posing, and putting through;;
better.solutions to national';
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