Hoover continued invasion to RD

posted on: Jan 30 2012 10:18 by RDugey. Viewed 43 times.

John Edgar Hoover, the legendary director of the Bureau of federal investigation (FBI) from 1924 to 1972, held direct communication with President Lyndon Johnson on the invasion of 1965 and the strategies deployed by the Agency of intelligence in the country since may, 1965.

In a series of available in the "virtual vault" declassified memoranda of the FBI and archived bass named Clyde Tolson, his assistant, the influential official stated to Johnson - on 2 June 1965 - "quite overwhelmed with the Dominican situation".

By that date, there were already 20 FBI agents working in Santo Domingo. "I told (Johnson) that our Office had been attacked by snipers and now had a squad of six marines protecting the physical property".

Two months earlier, Hoover yielded in a memo to Tolson, Belmont, DeLoach and Sullivan, had explained to the President that "my agent in Santo Domingo speaks" u000a"Spanish and Portuguese" and referred to a conversation in which both agreed that foreigners trained at the Academy of Quantico (training of FBI Headquarters) were of high value.

"Not only Dominican Republic, but in the majority of African countries there are so few that they find education or are capable of managing a Government I have the hope that these men that we are training return, not only to train his men in management of public order, but that eventually come to have higher positions in the Government." "The President said that some would maybe become Prime Ministers."

formation of the interim Government
on October 6, 1965, one month and three days of the establishment of the interim Government of Héctor García Godoy after the deposition of the arms of Caamaño and the constitutionalists, Hoover drafted a statement, which is partially crossed out, which refers to u000aa conversation with William Bowdler of the Office of McGeorge Bundy, the National Security Advisor of the preisdente Johnson, on the nomination and recommendation of officials.

"Concerning the recommendation that positions in the Ministry of the armed forces should include heads and deputies of provincial forces, Mr Bowdler expressed its belief that they solve that including Ministers and heads of the military branches".

on the recommendation of positions in the justice, Hoover wrote: "... He (Bowdler) points out that already have Ministers, Deputy Ministers, the Attorney general and prosecutors... told him that I thought that the group that would be sufficient".

MEMOS of HOOVER
1966
31 May
Johnson asked him to analyze the election Rd.

20
agents in SD
Hoover said that their main man in Santo Domingo spoke Portuguese and Spanish and that the operation of the FBI u000aIt began in May 1965. The head of the FBI argued that since the last world war there were operations in Dominican Republic be reactivated "when the President ordered that we us, we were able to renew many of our old contacts".

More data about the participation of the FBI
3 November
1965 Hoover wrote that in a conversation with McGeorge Bundy, it asked investigate a man linked to the "Dominican situation". "The State Department has already more or less determined than the man who want to propose to the President to be (strikethrough text) is (labeled a)." Bundy pointed out that this man had been directing (strikethrough) and had a good image of him.