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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090042-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: May 23, 1965
• Content Type: TRANS

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Sanitized - Approved For Release :,CI A~ WEST 47114
F?YRGHT
PROGRAM Alex Kendrick
DATE May 23, 1965
STATION WTOP-Radio and
CBS Network
ALEX KENDRICK: "In Santee Domingo, the American intervention four
weeks ago to prevent an alleged Communist takeover had beome, in a
sense, the Johnson Administration's Bay of Pigs, though even more
agonizingly drawn out, and with perhaps even more lasting repercussions
" On the political side, the story was that the United States
,
professing neutrality, had started out by being neutral in favor of one.
side, and ended, too late, by being neutral in favor of the other.
The State Department declared that the United States had no candidate
for the leadership of the Dominican Republic. It not only picked such
a candidate, General Antonio Imbert Barrara, whose rank is a political
and not a military one, but took him out to the American carrier to
brief him on his future career. It also provided him with 9750
000 to
,
pay the over-due salaries of civil service employees, thus bullding in
a certain amount of support for him. But when General Imbert s 6o-called
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might have been back on Pennsylvania Avenue.
"On the way, they stayed over in Puerto Rico, presumably to confer
with the exiled former president, Juan Bosch, and when they finally
arrived in Santa Domingo, the policy had changed, though as customary
on such occasions, it was, declared there had,been no change, but the
United States now favored the resumption of the political legitamacy
represented by Juan Bosch. This meant sacrificing the American chosen
man of the people, General Imbert Barrara, but Imbert refused to be
sacrificed. Instead, he broke the truce which had been
arranged by the
Organizatiuri of American States, rejected a U.N. appeal for a cease-fire
and vowing that victory was certain and that he had the backing of the
armed forces and controlled the country
Imbert be
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against tho rebels. The man behind him, General Wessin E. Wessin remained
there, also refusing to resign at U.S. request.
"By this time, the Am,)rican team seemed to h d
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General Imbert was not the man of the hour, neither. was the, rebel leader,
Colonel Caamano. The new choice was Antonio Guzman, former..'cabinet
minister under Bosch, to serve until the next elections in eighteen months
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