A REAL 'SECRET' POLL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040151-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 151
• Publication Date: May 17, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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singular role in tips kaleido-
scopic Dominican ui' heaval.
The huge, worldwide ' Intellh
41 genre agency is polling Dominf-
cans on whom, they' prefer
among the various military and
the ? CIA was making these Ilshed by the Senate Internpolls. Security Committee, headed b
SHOWS LEANINGS `? Sen.. James Eastland, D-Mis
Adding particular interest to Others signing It Include Repu
polling are views being voiced ? III., and. Sena Rbman? Hrusk
'by Vice.President Humphrey In t. R-Neb. '
telephone talks with Democratic The r It p o r t characterize
governors' and state leaders. Bosch as an "Ideological Trot
.throughout the country. ' . . skyite,'?' whose return to powe
From accounts reaching In-,.'.; would mean "another majo
trigued congressional leaders,; , victory for the' Communists."
Humphrey Is displaying marked "Juan. Basch is definitely a
friendliness toward deposed .. Ideological Trotskyite," declar
president Bosch. the report, "and therefore, b
Long, friendly. to the l)omini- definition, an ideological Com
can, Humphrey' does not ,go so munlst. Evidence of his softnes
far' as to advocate his return; towards communism Is empl
But he'',.does, maintain that,." and convincing. ' While Boscl
Bosch ' hit unquestionably the was president of the 'Dominica
most popular leader In the Republic, not only. were th
country, and that an honest Communists allowed free aei
election'-would restore him to for 'all - their activities, but. th
power. real power ' wag exercised b
When one Midwestern gover known Communists whom Bosc
nor asked whom the administra obviously either could not or, di
tion Is supporting, Humphrey clot wish to control.
replied:
'HANDS OFF' A HAVEN
"No one. We're keeping hands' .' "Exiled Communist leader-
strictly off of that. Our respon from all over Latin America
sibility is to see to It that A .. flocked to the Dominican Re
. civillan'aspirants to head a newt.
`
priilvt
.ovsona goernmen.
The unusual soundings' are be-
Ing made on the personal orders
' of President Johnson, a strong
r1 !'consensus" believer.
Publiclyi the administration Is
Jnsisting It Is not supporting any
Of the 'rival hopefuls. But the
President apparently hopes to
get some Indication of the tenor
in1 Of Dominican sentiment through'
?: the CiA's.polls ,
kat
dra, being conducted, and who.
IV,
and how many are tieing ques.
tloned is. the CIA's secret, 'But.
` the first results seemingly' are;
in -- on the basis of what has
been privately communicated to
'members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee...
A MINORITY
A found only 5 per cent of Domini.
cans favor Gen. Wessln y Wes.
sin, "strong man" :leader of the
forces that fought ,the April. 24
revolution..
'i What th,~ polling; r??t'drns will
be on Juan. Bosch, I:,hd elected
:president 'ousted by44te tnilttary
in 196.3, Col. FrancLsco Caamano
ase-fire is achieved, a ' provi public under she .Bosch regime,
tonal government set up, and
rder and ahormaltty. restored so and the, Communises began a
.
free election can be held as, drive having as its long-range
uickly, as possible. That's ours:.,objective not only a complete
my purpose:" . .Communist take-over . In San
Despite this avowed , neutral Domingo, but also the condition-
ty, Humphrey went out of his: hog of the people of that Island
ay to emphatically deny that, republic to such an extent that
osch is a leftist or has such this Communist take-over would
ies. Humphrey did characterize ? have majority support among
i'.m as "naive," but contended . the people themselves,"
hat with the "right kind of pea- These Senate committee find-
le around him, he.would be all logs differ flatly with Vice Pres-
ight:" ident Humphrey's contention
Observed onC governor, "Isn't' that Bosch Is not a leftist. ,
Deno, rebel leader who claims:'I
10 be "constitutional provisional
president," and Brig. Gen. An.f . ;
~,~tonio Imbert Barrerr~s, head of
l the "counter , revolutionary".
military junta Is n n
one's
y
In fact, .It's highly conjectural
If these CIA findings will be re.
men were' greatly ?dutprised, to'
V "he told about ' WZsain'a ' low
;standing. Theydi0 ftti
hat his trouble? He's so naive
hat he invariably attracts the
tong people.. That's why Ihe:
8 booted out.'' '
jhlsk:,fe rxaictly ,thp Ju~Jtnent
Bran Leader (Everett Dirkse
phrey, its a talk With Rep. Frpnk
seeeble,tuwwre;to have'. the Corn
pis ev~r~. pI5c .gvhrr+ the,-. is
*1,wr-'aki ,r or lhev teCI there
is arty possibilit .of suece'R. In
thA 'present showdown, fortu?
ntttely, the ' Organization of
American States 14 bhcking us
knd seeking forces to help 0o.
110 thA Dominican Republic
until A new government can be
elected." , ,
OT OKA CASE
Secretary hf.Stat! Rusk wants
to testify, again in the long.
drawn-out Case of Otto dtepka,
former tvaluMiOn chief Of the
departntCnt'.a security office.
Rusk-.' ha; made this request
M Sen.'East'gnd, D-Miss., chafe
ratan of , thn JntArnal :security
9ubcatrtnlitte , 'which hAa eon-
Aucted Axt'enalve.._closed.-door
hearing' in this pretrarteat.ran.
treverny;,
Thi't will ho i'tuak'a third ep.
pe,11?pnre hefnrt tII committee,
The aubcommitteel, will . roll.
sides Rusk`s surprise proposal
next weak. Fie made it after
Eastland announcAd the' hear-
ings wAre concluded and prep.
aratinnc begun for their publica-
tion in a 1'ew ivAekq,
in talk! with r.nmmittAenien,
Eastland ha,r indicated, he Is
willing to Allow Rusk to testify
Again provided he dots so im-
mediately.
"nut I am aaainsi Anymore
staliinpx," :gale Castiand. "This
CAst has hArn dragged out long
enough. In fairness to Otepka,
it should hA brought to a head
And I propose to see. that It
NOTE: The boxed portico
of this article did not
appear in the 21 May
issue of the NORTHERN
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