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Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000169 TOP SECRET # Trujillo Seeks Diplomatic Relations With Soviet Bloc Countries the Dominican UN delegation was instructed to notify the Soviet delegation of the desire of the Dominican Republic to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The instructions also called for similar approaches to the Rumanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, and Albanian delegations. These instructions apparently are the outgrowth of advice recently given Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo by his son Ramfis and a group of bitterly anti-US aides that aligning himself with the Soviet bloc and converting his regime into a "socialistic state" would be the only means of withstanding concerted US and OAS pressure against him. However, the Soviet bloc as a whole is unlikely to take any action at this time that would publicly associate it with the unpopular Trujillo dictatorship, although the USSR may have one or more members of the bloc establish relations. the Dominican Military Intelligence Service (SIM) recommended that Dominican exiles, many of whom are pro-Communists and Castro sympathizers, be invited to return in order that they may be used in "approaching the Russians." SIM has made several proposals aimed at terrorizing the local Catholic hierarchy and at liquidating the pro-US underground, made up primarily of members of the small Dominican middle class. Trujillo, in anticipation of such economic sanctions as were approved by the OAS on 4 January, has been attempting to develop commercial and more active diplomatic relations with neutralist and Middle Eastern nations. The regime reacted to the new OAS sanctions by accusing the US consul general of being a spy. The Trujillo-controlled Radio Caribe urged that the US Consulate be picketed, and later TOP SECRET 7 Jan 61 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 9 Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000169
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