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SANTO DOMINGO.- During the United States intervention of Dominican Republic in April ,1965 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had the world’s second largest station in this country, only after Saigon, Vietnam, said the historian Bernard Vega yesterday.

He said that’s one of the reasons for the CIA’s many reports on Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic’s ex- ambassador in Washington said that during the 1965 Revolution, after World War II the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is sent for the first time to another country, and came to Dominican Republic with some 28 agents.

Vega, interviewed by the newspaper Hoy, said the documents declassified by the CIA on Tuesday had as much as two thirds of the text erased, and many are reports on Dominican Republic.

This, he said, is evidence the espionage agency isn’t truly interested in presenting essential areas on its work in the country, and instead it’s an attempt to improve its deteriorated image.

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5 comment(s)
Written by: joe, 29 Jun 2007 9:15 AM
From: Cabarete
Let me get this right, bigger than Israel, all the middle east Cuba, China, Eastern Europe and every other hot spot.

Sure they are going to waste their time on this pee hole! Yeah Right!
Written by: Billy H. Adams, 29 Jun 2007 11:13 AM
From: Santiago, Santiago
Sr. Vega is most probably correct in his assertions.
When viewed in the light of the political atmosphere prevelent at the time, it follows that the proximity of the DR to Cuba (the bastion of Communism in the Caribbean) played a prominent part in the allocation of agents from both the FBI and the CIA to the DR to combat that perceived threat to theNational Security of the US and it's exctended environs.
The political imperitives that existed then is not reflected in the manning of the Embass
Written by: Billy H. Adams, 29 Jun 2007 11:21 AM
From: Santiago, Santiago
Cont'd from above:
of the US today.
The threat of violent incursions is not as great today as it was in the1960's. In addition, it should be understood by all concerned that it is NOT the intention of theUS to control nor impose it's will on the DR by any means, political, economic or militarially.
Should the DR ever be invaded by another power, the US would certainly come to heraid and assistance since the DR is within the sphere of National Interest of the US.
I speak as a US Citizen on
Written by: MrThelmo Almeyda Rancier, 29 Jun 2007 8:49 PM
From: Bogota N.J,.USA
Billy:
You trully believe that the the USA is not an imperialist power?
Where have you been? Do you remember studying the occupation of 1914 in the DR to leave us a dictator called
Trujillo? Do you remember the occupation of 1962 by the US
marines after the assessination of TRUJILLO by Dominicans?
It was not to their liking that the CHIVO had to go after 33 years of ruthless killing IIf you don't call that imperialism ,then what is it? His mistake was Betancourt fail assassination Venez
Written by: jlb, 2 Jul 2007 3:37 PM
From: nyc
Sure,sure,sure, bigger than Moscow and Berlin at the height of the cold war
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