ANTI-COMMUNIST, HAH?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800110010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 8, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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ANTI - COMMUNIST, I-HAH ?
We'd call that an eminently fair question, '',?.
about that they have at last obtained establishment of an
anti-Communist government in the Dominican Republic.
Now speaks up Gen. Elias'Wessin y Wessin, a highly."
respected Dominican Republic anti-Communist _'.
.Bribe military man whom the Reds hate like poison.
.story The general tells Jules Dubois, equally re
. spected Chicago Tribune Latin American cor-
respondent, that he was visited late last weekend by a Lt.
';Col. Joe Wyrick of the U. S. Army and a David. Phillips of
the U. S. Central intelligence-Agency.
These gentlemen, says Wessin y Wessin, tried. to bribe.
him to go into exile somewhere, because the Dominican Re-"!]
`public Red rebels refuse to give up their weapons until he ;~
leaves the country. -
The bribe was to c6psist of guest-of-honor trips to
U. S. military installations and the Canal Zone, plus a big ;
overpayment of cash for the general's modest home.
Up. to now, State and the CIA have no comment.,
"What," asks Wessin y Wessin, "is the United' States
fighting for? Is it fighting for democracy, or Communism`
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