BOBBY BAKER LINKED TO BACKERS OF BOSCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100250009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 19, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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INQUIRER
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By DAVID KRASLOW
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that former Senate majority secretary Bobby Baker may 'have been working with finan-
vial backers of Juan Bosch, former president of the Dominician Republic. This was learn-
Pd Thursday. from secret tes ;expected to again seek the presi-
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,the Dominican Republic and is'hiniself taught in one, he tests F
coup in 1963, was in exile in iiobs.
`'Puer(.o Rico at the time of the! And, Wessin said, B o s e h
CIA report. The 'coup against;"wanted to turn over the coun-
Reid? Cabral was launched initry to the Communists," and al-
:Bosch's name. ;lowed 40 Communist indoctrina-
last July during its invest ig,,-j It u?as clear from the tcsti
lion of U. S. intervention in,mony that 'the Johnson Admin-j
the Dominican rebellion. ?stration opposed the rebel s
Testimony of CIA Dircctorfighting under the Bosch banner,
William F. Raborn, Undersc.cro and the return of Bosch to power,.
tary of State Thomas Mann and because of fear that a rebel vie,
story could result in "another;'
other high Administration offs-'Cuba."
vials still is classified as "se-'
cret." ~'r A COMMUNIST
U. S. INVOLVEMENT Mann testified that Bosch him-;
The testimony covered a wide elf was not a Communist, But
he said the Ltnited States had'
matic, of to U. S. ig military, arn,nd di e co- -ilearned B o s c h had secretly,'
nomic , involvement eennt t in the Do- made a "political alliance ofi
nomic with three Domin
affter a ter a Republic Communist parties - one'
a caon andioriented to Havana, another toy
onaAprilld 24 against Reid Cabral. c coup the uree ime ot!M,Ioscow and a third to Peking.jj
D Cabral. ,
I think we o
Baker's name was broml?i(1 ' ' ought to give
,into the hearings by Sen. Bourke Bosch credit for thinking that
Hickenlooper (R., Iowa), to could use these three Cqm-
Hickenlooper asked Mann if1unist. parties and c o n t r o l'
he had any knowledge that+them," Mann said. "The gut is-
Baker was "working in collabo-flue is whether having entered
!ration" with Diego Bordas andinto this kind of an alliance they
Jose Benitez, both friends of controlled Bosch or Bosch con-
Baker and reported!;;. financaalolled them."
!backs of Bosch. !RED IN CABINET
BLOODLESS COUP In other testimony disclosed
This information, I think,"'Thursday, Brig. Gen. Elias Wes-
Mann said, "is included in a-sin y Wessin, former Dominican
CIA report dated the 18th of military leader, said one Com-I'
March, !965 I have no munist holds a cabinet post inij
knowledge except what is con-;that country and that othersl:.
stained in this report." along with Communist-support-
Bosch, deposed in a bloodlessled rebels are in key government