DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A001200030013-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 23, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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NSC BRIEFING 23 March 1960
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
I. Signs are increasing that the 30-year-old Trujillo dictatorship
may be nearing an end as both internal and external pressures
against it mount. ILLEGIB
A. A high Dominican official has predicted that
25X1X Trujillo will last no more than one or two months.
25X1X
Trujillo won't
last even that long.
C. Members of the Trujillo family are reported to have recently
withdrawn some $46 million from the Reserve Bank--thus
aggrayating the country's already poor economic position.
II. Trujillo's departure will probably be sudden, leaving a power
vacuum.
A. Leftists and pro-Communists among the many Dominican exiles
in various countries of the hemisphere can be expected to make
every effort to return promptly in order to seize the initia-
tive.
1. They can probably count on considerable support from Cuba's
Castro.
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