Gerard Toriello person
· died in Dominican Republic
also: Gerard Torelio, the dictator, Trujillo, Trujillo government, Trujillo regime
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Claims (18)
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Gerard Toriello documented
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“complish Trujillo overthrow, but would not "undertake any overt action itself against Trujillo government while it is in full control of Dominican Republic.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.207
CIA supplied_arms_to
Gerard Toriello documented
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“The kind of arms approved sterile rifles with telescopic sights together with the statement that they presumably would be used against key members of the Trujillo regime clearly indicated the "targeted use" for which the weapons were intend…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.208
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Gerard Toriello documented
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“In August 1960 the United States interrupted diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic and recalled most of its personnel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.208
Gerard Toriello attempted_assassination_of
Betancourt documented
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“In June agents of Trujillo tried to assassinate Venezuelan President Betancourt…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.208
Organisation armée secrète targeted_for_regime_change
Gerard Toriello documented
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“As a result the OAS censured the Trujillo government…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.208
Henry Dearborn proposed
Gerard Toriello documented
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“Dearborn came to believe that no effort to overthrow the Trujillo government could be successful unless it involved Trujillo's assassination…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.209
5412 Group funded
Gerard Toriello documented
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“On December 29 1960 the Special Group considered and approved a broad plan of covert support to anti-Trujillo forces…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.210
Dominican dissidents proposed
Gerard Toriello documented
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“CIA officials were told repeatedly by dissident leaders that 'the key to the success of the plot [to overthrow the Trujillo regime] would be the assassination of Trujillo.'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.212
Dissidents targeted_for_regime_change
Gerard Toriello documented
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“a Station officer testified that the carbines were at all times viewed as strictly a token show of support indicating United States support of the dissidents efforts to overthrow Trujillo…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.215
Dissidents attempted_assassination_of
Gerard Toriello documented
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“The machine guns sought by the dissidents were clearly identified in the Station cable as being sought for use in connection with an attempt to assassinate Trujillo…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.215
internal opposition targeted_for_regime_change
Gerard Toriello documented
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“urgent requests from the internal opposition leaders for personal defense weapons attendant to their projected efforts to neutralize TRUJILLO…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.225
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Gerard Toriello reported
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“Goodwin testified that it was his intent in revising the cable to communicate to Dearborn President Kennedy's personal belief that the United States '* * * didn't want to do anything that would involve us further the United States further i…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.226
Gerard Toriello died_in
San Cristóbal documented
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“Late in the evening of May 30 1961 Trujillo was ambushed and assassinated near San Cristobal Dominican Republic…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.227
Gerard Toriello died_in
Dominican Republic documented
document
“Late in the evening of May 30 1961 Trujillo was ambushed and assassinated near San Cristobal Dominican Republic…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.227
Ramfis Trujillo family_of
Gerard Toriello documented
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“Trujillo's son Ramfis was also in Paris…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.228
United States involved_in
Gerard Toriello documented
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“There is no indication or suggestion contained in the record of those post-assassination meetings or in the Robert Kennedy notes of concern as to the propriety of the known United States involvement in the assassination…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.229
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Gerard Toriello documented
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“The Presidents and other senior officials in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations sought the overthrow of Trujillo and approved or condoned actions to obtain that end…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.276
Gerard Toriello linked_to
Dominican Republic documented
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“Trujillo eventhoughthe dictatorof the Dominican Republicheldno officialgovernmentalpositionin the latter periodof his regime…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.297
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in desperate hopes that someone would understand and end the violence. Nothing helped. Dwight Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, and Alan Dulles had decided that the legally elected government of Jacobo Arbenz, A-R-B-E-N-Z, was communist. Ther…
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The foreign minister of Guatemala was saying that anything that Guatemala did for itself was labeled communist by the American government and was not to be allowed. Trujillo was close to the truth. He was dead on. Washington officials retai…