SITUATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (REPORT #157 - SUMMARY OF SITUATION FROM 9:00 PM - 5:00 AM EDT)

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• Publication Date: May 6, 1965
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OCI No. 1598/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
6 May 1965
State Dept. review completed
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Situation in the Dominican Republic
(Report - Summary o ua xon
from 9:00 pm - 5000 am EDT)
1. Despite the ceasefire, sporadic sniper
fire continues against US forces and four more
American paratroopers were wounded late yesterday.
Contrary to some press reports appearing this
morning, no US military personnel are known to
have been captured by rebel forces. Total US
casualty figures now stand at eight killed and
54 wounded in action.
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40 There is additional information on condi-
tions at several points in the interior. The area
around San Juan de las Matas is quiet and anti-
rebel forces are in control. This is the area just
to the west of Santiago near where the extremists
launched their abortive guerrilla effort in late
1963.
San Pedro de Macoris reports a isturbing situa-
tion there which may well be prevalent in other
parts of the country. He says the food situation
is serious and yet local merchants have raised
prices for foodstuffs they have in stock. Most
of the people are unable to buy needed foods. In
La Romana, the site of a US-owned sugar mill on
the south coast there has reportedly been some
unrest.
5. Ambassador Bennett reports some recent
progress in the formation of a more broadly based
government to represent the anti-rebel forces.
The loyalist military officers have agreed to the
naming of General Antonio Imbert as a member or
president of a new junta, but there has been dif-
ficulty in obtaining the cooperation of respected
civilians who could represent the country's major
political currents. Most have refused outright
or have imposed impossible conditjonsm Late last
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night, however, the ambassador reported that it
seemed likely that a trio of civilian "technicians"
has come forward which "might provide us with a
government with enough base to give us a breathing
spell."
6. Early this morning the Organization of
American States approved a United States resolu-
tion to establish an inter-American peace force
in the Dominican Republic. The vote was 14 to 5
(Mexico, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay) with
Venezuela abstaining. The OAS will be in control
of the force and can withdraw it when it is no
longer needed. Members have been asked to con-
tribute forces and a command arrangement will be
determined by the individual national commanders
consulting among themselves. The size of individual
contingents will be determined by the OAS unified
commanders.
7. The delegate of Caamano's rebel govern-
ment, Antonio Rosario, a member of the extreme
left and anti-American faction of the Social
Christian Revolutionary Party apparently appeared
at the meeting but did not attempt to unseat the
loyalist Dominican delegate Jose Bonilla Atiles.
The showdown was evidently avoided through the
technicality that Rosario was a delegate to the
OAS Council and not to the Meeting of Foreign
Ministers that established the inter-American
force.
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