Author drew Balaguer as an informant for the FBI

The ex-President Joaquín Balaguer was informant for the Bureau of research Federal of the United States (FBI), according to the next book by the journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tim Weiner, an extensive research based on declassified the intelligence agency American Tausend next February 14.

"Despite the domestic focus of the Bureau, the IFF has been involved in many operations abroad and 'choreographed' invasion Americana of 1965 that installed the informant for FBI Joaquin Balaguer as President of the Dominican Republic", published in its Edition yesterday the influential digital Huffington Post and last week the Weekly's Publisher).

The note from the Huffington Post adds: "As testimony of its powers of persuasion, the Bureau recruited the exiled President within 72 hours of your visit to New York City".

Balaguer was installed as President after four years u000ain exile (from 1962 to 1966), after the American invasion ordered by Lyndon Johnson to annihilate the Constitutionalist revolution of April of that year, which was intended to replace the Government ousted President, Juan Bosch.

Balaguer held the Presidency of the Republic from 1966 to 1978, during the period known as "The 12 years" and again in the periods 1986-1990, 1990-1994 and 1994-1996, when his term was cut amid allegations of fraud and early presidential elections. Between 1932 and 1961, under the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Balaguer was a diplomat, Secretary of the Presidency, Vice President and President of the Republic.

The book of Weiner, 560 pages, enemies: a history of the FBI ("Enemies: A History of the FBI"), published by Random House, reveals that the Bureau was also able to place spies in the highest levels of Communist China, the Soviet Union and u000aCuba

LA invasion and ROBERT KENNEDY
invasion of 1965 had a significant impact on the foreign policy of United States. In a memorandum by W.C. Sullivan to W.R.

Wannall on May 10, 1966 declassified by the FBI and consulted by LISTÍN DIARIO, reflected the unease that the invasion had been generated in the region.

In a speech to his counterparts on May 9, 1966, the then Senator Robert Kennedy said that intervention in Dominican Republic had seriously damaged relations with Latin America. "Latin Americans do not believe that the Dominican revolt was inspired or directed by communism." "And even if they did not grant any rights to the United States intervene unilaterally and without the Organization of American States".

Links on the revelations of Weiner

Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost. com/2012/01/27/bush-lied-to-fbi-director_n_1237262. u000ado html? ref = tw

Publisher's Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industrynews/publisher-news / article/50263-pw-review-enemies-a-history-of-the-fbi-bytim - weiner.html

FBI files
http://vault.fbi.gov/ Robert F. Kennedy / Robert F. Kennedy Part 11 of 14/view

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