SITUATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (REPORT #253 - AS OF 4:30 PM EDT)

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 2005
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• Publication Date: May 31, 1965
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OCI No. 1740/65
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
31 May 1965
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Situation in the Dominican Republic
Repport - _As oT74u _pm ED
The Imbert government continues actively seek-
ing to enlarge its political base of support, but
no early success in this regard appears likely..
The Government of National Reconstruction yes-
terday decided to enlarge its five-man ruling junta
to nine members. According to their decision, the
country's two largest political organizations--
Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and
Balaguer's Reformist Party (PR)--were each to be
invited to name two of their members to the junta.
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Special UN representative Jose Mayobre was
scheduled to leave Santo Domingo today for two days
of consultations with U Thant on the crisis in
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general and on UN staffing problems in the Dominican
Republic.
lit does seem likely, however, that e
possibility 01 further UN action in the Dominican
situation will be discussed--especially since there
appear to be no signs of a letup in the opposition
of both the rebel and loyalist factions to Secretary
General Jose Mora of the Organization of American
States.
The rebels have not broken off all relations
with the Organization of American States, however:
they appear to have been successful in their call
for the organization:'s Human Rights Commission to
come and investigate their charges that the Imbert
government has violated human rights during the
crisis, In Chile, commission president Manuel Bianchi
is reported by the press to be ready to fly to the
Dominican capital tomorrow to investigate the rebel
charges.
Rebel Radio Santo Domingo (Consititutionalist)
continues its exhortations against the US and the
Inter-American Armed Force (IAAF). This morning
the station broadcast a protest note by the "Domini-
can Lawyers Association" against the US and IAAF
presence. The protest, which was cabled to the UN
and nine governments, called for the recipients to
"immediately negotiate the prompt evacuation of the
criminal Yankee troops and those of their satellite
governments." It went on to charge Jose Mora,
Secretary General of the Organization of American
States(OAS), and the members of the OAS with trying
to "thrust upon us a dictatorship pursuant to the
interests of the Yankee government or to prolong
our crisis indefinitely with the presence of that
transgressor army."
Afterwards the station while excoriating the
"foreign invader" stated that the rebels would not
give one inch in regards to the 1963 constitution.
Shortly before noon the station had worked itself
into a state of high dudgeon and was railing about
the "41,000" US soldiers that had "invaded" the
Dominican Republic. It thus declared that "shortly
the Consitutional Government will have to formally
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declare war on the criminal government of the
United States of America." Later on in the broad-
cast the qualifier "if they continue to help the
genocidal group at San Isidro" was added to the
above "threat."
Meanwhile, loyalist Radio San Isidro was
broadcasting at 11:20 EDT this morning, that all
the cease-fire agreements had been violated by the
rebels and that "not long ago they attacked the
National Palace and it cost them dearly." The
station further added that the cease-fire truce
was a setback to "Dominican democracy."
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