Rafael Trujillo person
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Claims (30)
Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo book_quoted
“It does say that the National Security Council special group in Washington gave consideration to a program of covert aid to anti-Trujillo Dominicans. Two months later, Eisenhower approved a contingency plan, which provided in part that if t…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 24:16
James Schlesinger ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo book_quoted
“At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 25:58
Rafael Trujillo supplied_arms_to
Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted
“Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, which could later be used as an answer to the questions of where all those guns came from, which is why it's so important that they control the countries around the target. So if we get caught, we'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 32:58
Rafael Trujillo ruled
Dominican Republic documented
“Yeah, there we go. But he and most of his fellow Spanish refugees soon discovered that they had left the frying pan and jumped into the fire. Rafael Trujillo had ruled the Dominican Republic since the 1930s, a reign of terror that combined …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 2:03
Rafael Trujillo married
Benavida Ricardo documented
“He was attracted to white, plump women. His 1929 wedding to socialite Benavida Ricardo, he horrified the guests, which were among the Dominican's high societies, by cutting the wedding cake with a military sword, sending the tower of cake c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 5:01
Rafael Trujillo pledged_allegiance_to
United States documented
“pledging his nation's allegiance to the United States, especially during World War II and the Cold War, and showering money on Washington politicians and lobbying firms. His courtship with Washington paid off, which was why he was allowed t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 6:37
Allen Dulles celebrated
Rafael Trujillo documented
“pledging his nation's allegiance to the United States, especially during World War II and the Cold War, and showering money on Washington politicians and lobbying firms. His courtship with Washington paid off, which was why he was allowed t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 6:37
Rafael Trujillo ordered_assassination_of
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“By 1956, there was one man, Jesus D. Galenza, who in the dictator's mind threatened his regime. Galenza, who lived in a book-stuffed apartment on Fifth Avenue and enjoyed going to Latin dance clubs at night, did not strike his academic coll…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 10:45
Rafael Trujillo tortured
Jesús de Galíndez documented
“He demanded that he eat it. The dazed Galendaz took the pile of papers, but could not keep hold of them, letting them fall to the floor as his head slumped to his chest. The dictator screamed at him and started beating him with a riding cro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 18:51
Rafael Trujillo ordered_assassination_of
Gerald Murphy documented
“He went too far and ordered the murder of three young American, the murder of the American pilot who had flown Galendez to the Dominican Republic. 23-year-old Gerald Murphy had dreamed of being a pilot his whole life. He had been prevented …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 30:53
John Frank worked_for
Rafael Trujillo documented
“firm. Frank won the trust of Trujillo, who made him his bodyguard during state visits to Europe and the U.S. Mayhew's agency was also given a lucrative contract to upgrade his security in the Dominican Republic. Frank liked to play tennis w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 23:20
CIA carried_out_attack
Rafael Trujillo documented
“It noted allegations of CIA assassination efforts against foreign politicians like Castro, Diem, Dominican dictator Trujillo. Kissinger flipped quickly through the pages, but slowed when he came to the part about assassinations. He stopped …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 38:04
Rafael Trujillo carried_out_attack
Kidnapping and murder of Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“And isn't it interesting that he thinks that he can blackmail the guy that orchestrated the kidnapping of someone out of New York City, flew him all the way to the Dominican Republic, and then boiled him alive. That's not the guy you want t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:05:34
Rafael Trujillo attempted_coup_against
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Several contingents of these workers for the revolution made progress until Havana ordered them to substitute the different educational doctrine. That became the last straw for yet more Cubans. By the summer, opponents had began to coalesce…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 8:32
Joaquín Balaguer member_of
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“with the Trujillo clan and the military leaders, and bluntly told them that U.S. military power would, if necessary, be used to compel the formation of a provisional government headed by Haquin Balaguer, B-A-L-A-G-U-E-R, until elections cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 37:49
Rafael Trujillo carried_out_attack
Dominican Republic host_asserted
“a continuation of Trujillo regime or a Castro regime. We ought to aim at the first, but we really can't renounce the second until we are sure we can't avoid the third. Rafael Trujillo Jr. was clearly not ideal. Besides bearing an inescapabl…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 36:49
Rafael Trujillo assassinated
Mirabal Sisters documented
“Interestingly enough, at one point, Trujillo, he murders three of four sisters that were referred to as the butterflies. There's a whole story behind them. It's called Mirabal, M-I-R-A-B-A-L, sisters. Definitely need to look at that. It's a…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 16:56
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“a continuation of Trujillo regime or a Castro regime. We ought to aim at the first, but we really can't renounce the second until we are sure we can't avoid the third. Rafael Trujillo Jr. was clearly not ideal. Besides bearing an inescapabl…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 36:49
Reed Lear ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo book_quoted
“We do know that in the past, the American public has been manipulated through psychological operations and manipulation of the mockingbird press. So, in 1958, the CIA station chief in the Dominican Republic, his name was Lear, L-E-A-R, Reed…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 23:18
William Black exposed
Rafael Trujillo book_quoted
“CIA-inspired. So we're going to pick up there with this other source that I've been using that is called The Killing Hope, written by William Bloom. And he talks about Trujillo being a mass murderer, torturer, absolute dictator, and was sho…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 18:57
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“However, these plans came to an end when the military dictator, Rafael Trujillo, was murdered on the orders of the CIA, and because he got a little too big for his britches, but then they installed…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 1:11:33
Rafael Trujillo ordered_assassination_of
Enrique Blanco documented
“His theater of blood included the horrific 1937 mass slaughter of thousands of Haitian immigrant workers, including women and children, many of which were hacked to death. His political enemies were rounded up and tortured in concentration …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 2:30
CIA paid
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“$25 million a year in foreign aid, most of which ended up in his overseas foreign bank accounts. The CIA further enriched the dictator with several secret payments, delivering suitcases stuffed with cash when he came to visit the UN because…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 10:12
Gerald Murphy ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“I think Gerald Murphy's mistake was going to Trujillo and asking for hush money. I mean, the diabolical thing in all of this was, you know, all he had to do was stay quiet or get involved with his own stuff. And then there would have sort o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:05:04
United States government funded
Rafael Trujillo book_quoted
“And had been part of his rise to power as well, because at any one time, the U.S. was intimately working with him over those 30 years. So there was no attempt to boycott him. There was no attempt to cut the harbor off, as you see with anybo…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 19:53
United States government installed
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“by the name of Rafael Trujillo. It's T-R-U-J-I-L-L-O. And he's a very interesting guy. He ends up being installed in 1930 as a dictator, and he remains in power until 1961. And he did do, in his defense, many good things.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 14:00
United States government trained
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“And then it is the people within the National Guard slash military structure that rises up and becomes the new dictator, as in the case with Rafael Trujillo. It was during one of those Marine invasions into the Dominican Republic that the U…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 29:59
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“We need to get rid of this guy. So, of course, that's kind of where we get into the part that I'm going to go over today, because they definitely get rid of him. He's assassinated. And there is a lot of people that believe, because of how h…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 18:22
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“was sent away to boarding school in Pennsylvania from Cuba. He was from a very elite and prestigious family. And he took like a year out of that while he's in high school to go to the Dominican Republic. Hello, hello. He went to the Dominic…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 32:18
Rafael Trujillo attempted_assassination_of
Venezuela host_asserted
“Trujillo made the ultimate mistake and reached out to because he's starting to get cut off by because he's doing these crazy ass things. He starts to get cut off by the US and they're starting to distance himself. He even tries to assassina…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 17:54
Mentions (59)
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in the Dominican Republic. Now, again, keep in mind, this is 1960. The Dominican Republic has Operation Gladio units in it, and they are attacking Haiti. Baker argued that the Dominican Republic would be a mafia replacement for Cuba. Howeve…
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Moving forward, you have World War I, World War II. The Dominican Republic basically assisted in the form of like sugar and other things. I mean, of course, we bought it, but they did assist with supplies to the allies during those two wars…
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by the name of Rafael Trujillo. It's T-R-U-J-I-L-L-O. And he's a very interesting guy. He ends up being installed in 1930 as a dictator, and he remains in power until 1961. And he did do, in his defense, many good things.…
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He brought about, number one, stability. Number two, he built a lot of hospitals, got their economy back under control, and built schools, roads. The harbor was basically completely redone. He did negotiate a final undisputed border with Ha…
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And he ended the customs agreement with the U.S. early. So the problem, the downside of all of that was he was a dictator. He murdered people. At the end of 30 years, it is estimated that over 50,000 Dominicans and foreign nationals were mu…
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population, this was news to me, inside the United States too, that they utilized, and by they, I'm going to say both Trujillo and the CIA, because anybody in New York that was anti-Trujillo publicly and in a very boisterous manner got assa…
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But this one was launched by Dominican rebels from Guatemala. And of course, Guatemala was used to launch an attack against Castro later on. Not a coincidence. So you have Cuba eventually breaks diplomatic relationships with Trujillo becaus…
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Interestingly enough, at one point, Trujillo, he murders three of four sisters that were referred to as the butterflies. There's a whole story behind them. It's called Mirabal, M-I-R-A-B-A-L, sisters. Definitely need to look at that. It's a…
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Depending on what you're reading, if you actually dig into it, if you look just cursory, like on Wikipedia or whatever, they all refer to them as communists. They were not communists. They were nationalists that wanted the integrity of thei…
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Trujillo made the ultimate mistake and reached out to because he's starting to get cut off by because he's doing these crazy ass things. He starts to get cut off by the US and they're starting to distance himself. He even tries to assassina…
▶ 18:22
We need to get rid of this guy. So, of course, that's kind of where we get into the part that I'm going to go over today, because they definitely get rid of him. He's assassinated. And there is a lot of people that believe, because of how h…
▶ 18:57
CIA-inspired. So we're going to pick up there with this other source that I've been using that is called The Killing Hope, written by William Bloom. And he talks about Trujillo being a mass murderer, torturer, absolute dictator, and was sho…
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outside of the capital city. The assassination set off a chain of events that lasted over five years and basically showed an overarching intervention by the U.S. And the U.S. had been an accomplice in the assassination itself.…
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When you tell a foreign country who they can and can't have as a president and you assassinate anybody that they want as their president that is actually elected, it makes people a little radical. That obviously is newsflash to them. And in…
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So the decision to get rid of Trujillo was reinforced in 1960 when the U.S. sought to organize opposition to the Castro regime. And it was noticed by everyone that the U.S. would only oppose leftist governments and not equally tyrannical go…
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Eisenhower was led to observe that, quote, it's certain that American public opinion won't contend Castro until we have moved against Trujillo, unquote. So you see how they're setting their ducks up. The President Eisenhower's belief that i…
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right-wing dictators in Guatemala, Nicaragua, I mean, they installed them, Haiti, and elsewhere before and after Trujillo's assassination. Yet the American public readily fell in line in condemning Castro as a result supposedly of them havi…
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We do know that in the past, the American public has been manipulated through psychological operations and manipulation of the mockingbird press. So, in 1958, the CIA station chief in the Dominican Republic, his name was Lear, L-E-A-R, Reed…
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It does say that the National Security Council special group in Washington gave consideration to a program of covert aid to anti-Trujillo Dominicans. Two months later, Eisenhower approved a contingency plan, which provided in part that if t…
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successor regime can be induced to take over with the assurances of U.S. political, economic, and, if necessary, military support, unquote. Trujillo continued to live up to his gangster reputation during this time, and in June, his henchmen…
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Without having the cables from the Secretary of State or the files from the CIA, it really is difficult to discern which is accurate and which isn't. But let's just go with the story as we know it, in that he did, in fact, try to take out t…
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Because the CIA wanted him gone, too. Just laying that out there. Americans living in the Dominican Republic were enlisted for the cause by the CIA. Schemes to overthrow Trujillo were drawn up at different times by the State Department. Col…
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So maybe blowing up the Venezuelan president's car was just his putting him on notice that they're going to do this. And if he wants to live, I don't know. So none of the ambitious plans was even attempted. The actual assassination was esse…
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would not interfere militarily to prevent the assassination and would support them and recognize the new government afterwards. The Dominican Republic, where American Marines have landed on four separate occasions in this century, the last …
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And then it is the people within the National Guard slash military structure that rises up and becomes the new dictator, as in the case with Rafael Trujillo. It was during one of those Marine invasions into the Dominican Republic that the U…
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spies on their own government. And then at the right time, they will use those people. They install them. And that's what just happened in Niger. So it's still going on. So anyway, there was some requirements that the U.S. had as far as who…
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operations. So the day after the assassination, Raphael Trujillo Jr. rushed home from his playboy's life in Paris to take over the reins of the government. Little had been resolved either in the Dominican Republic or in Washington because n…
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On the other hand, it would not have been the first time the CIA was involved in a plot to eliminate an ally that they actually installed, because they did that with Batista in Cuba, Trujillo, Figueres, and Diem out of Vietnam. Mubato, at t…
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At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …
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Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, which could later be used as an answer to the questions of where all those guns came from, which is why it's so important that they control the countries around the target. So if we get caught, we'…
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Several contingents of these workers for the revolution made progress until Havana ordered them to substitute the different educational doctrine. That became the last straw for yet more Cubans. By the summer, opponents had began to coalesce…
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such as the Congo's Patrice Lumumba, South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, and Fidel Castro, its assassins had proved inept or were beaten to the punch, i.e. they weren't responsible, which is a bold-face…
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where strongman Rafael Trujillo had promised sanctuary to Spanish exiles. Arriving in late 1939 in Santo Domingo, the capital city, which the dictator had renamed after himself, Galindez found work as a professor of history and languages, a…
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Yeah, there we go. But he and most of his fellow Spanish refugees soon discovered that they had left the frying pan and jumped into the fire. Rafael Trujillo had ruled the Dominican Republic since the 1930s, a reign of terror that combined …
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His theater of blood included the horrific 1937 mass slaughter of thousands of Haitian immigrant workers, including women and children, many of which were hacked to death. His political enemies were rounded up and tortured in concentration …
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whose corpse was tied to a chair and paraded through his hometown where the peasant followers were forced to dance. Those who fell into disfavor in the regime lived in mortal fear of being denounced in the notorious gossip column of the lea…
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than being shot, beaten to death, or fed to sharks, all of which happened. He was the master of fear. During the later years of his regime, which continued until the 1950s, all it took to spread panic in the Capitol was for one of his secur…
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He was also infamous for his official larceny, taking over all of the country's core industries, including oil, cement, meat, sugar, rice, and even prostitution. Now, normally, if those were owned by the U.S. government, he would have been …
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He amassed a personal fortune that made him the wealthiest man in Latin America. Trujillo's sexual appetites were equally large, earning him the title the goat on the streets. He plowed his way through three wives, two mistresses, and count…
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He was attracted to white, plump women. His 1929 wedding to socialite Benavida Ricardo, he horrified the guests, which were among the Dominican's high societies, by cutting the wedding cake with a military sword, sending the tower of cake c…
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was basically a very base kind of man. He was gross. But he had won admiration among the poor and uneducated in the society at the time. He was especially popular among men who admired his naked ambition and sexual prowess. He was an earlie…
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Trujillo also provided thousands of young men from the lower orders, including blacks and other traditional outcasts, a path upward by expanding the civil service as well as the military, transforming his army into the second most powerful …
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pledging his nation's allegiance to the United States, especially during World War II and the Cold War, and showering money on Washington politicians and lobbying firms. His courtship with Washington paid off, which was why he was allowed t…
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communism. That same year, Vice President Nixon visited the Dominican Republic and made a very public display of embracing him. The U.S. should overlook the notorious defects of the Dominican dictator Nixon later advised Eisenhower's cabine…
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at home, or abroad. But by the 50s, his roguish social circle had produced several personalities smooth enough to be embraced by the international jet set, including his first daughter, Flora D. Ora, and the suave ladies' man that she once …
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and Perferio Rubirosa. He was a leading symbol of Dominican masculinity on the world stage. Rubirosa started his career as a military aide to Trujillo, parlaying his connections, good looks, and elegance into becoming one of the most…
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celebrated Latin lovers of his day. He was referred to as the Dominican Don Juan or Caribbean Castanova. Rubiroso, affectionately known as Ruby, was the son that Trujillo had always wanted, polished against his crude style. The dictator, li…
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reveled in the tales of Ruby's romantic exploits. The playboy had passionate affairs with blonde movie goddess like Kim Novak and courted some of the world's richest women, including American heiress Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton, both of w…
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Hutton was particularly graphic about his appeal of the sexual nature. We'll just leave it at that. This was the Dominican imagery of lusty and glamorous that Trujillo wanted to project to the world, particularly the U.S. Maintaining this p…
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$25 million a year in foreign aid, most of which ended up in his overseas foreign bank accounts. The CIA further enriched the dictator with several secret payments, delivering suitcases stuffed with cash when he came to visit the UN because…
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By 1956, there was one man, Jesus D. Galenza, who in the dictator's mind threatened his regime. Galenza, who lived in a book-stuffed apartment on Fifth Avenue and enjoyed going to Latin dance clubs at night, did not strike his academic coll…
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Not long before he vanished, he had completed a damning 750-page dissertation on the dictator called the Heir of Trujillo and had submitted it as part of his PhD at Columbia. Scholarly theses do not normally incite violent passions, but Tru…
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about his regime was a threat. He viewed it as a betrayal. Trujillo's agents tried to convince Galinza to sell the manuscript to them, offering as much as $25,000, but he refused. The dictator decided that left him only one course of action…
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Iron-fisted regimes like Trujillo dominated Latin America with dictators ruling 13 of the 20 nations, thanks in some part to the CIA. The Eisenhower administration found these despots to be useful Cold War allies. They allowed U.S. corporat…
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But Galenza's scholarly activism, which included numerous magazine articles and pamphlets that he published in Mexico and the U.S., attacking the Trujillo regime and championing human rights in Latin America, was challenging this order. It …
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An FBI official noted in a memo that his dissertation on Trujillo may involve informant and personal difficulties. This matter will be watched closely and the Bureau kept advised. Not closely enough. Galendez was well aware of his perilous …
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And they had already killed at least one opponent of his regime in New York. Strange notes were slipped into his books on campus and disturbing phone calls were made to his home. One day, two rough-looking Dominicans in bright tropical shir…
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It noted allegations of CIA assassination efforts against foreign politicians like Castro, Diem, Dominican dictator Trujillo. Kissinger flipped quickly through the pages, but slowed when he came to the part about assassinations. He stopped …
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TypeScript pages ended up on the cutting floor. Its discussion of CIA plots against Castro, Trujillo, Lumumba, and Diem kept from the public. President Ford had the source materials all turned over to him. Like Bill Colby with the family je…