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Desmond FitzGerald Cable on Cuban Exile Groups Operating in the Dominican Republic, 1964

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It names three independent Cuban exile organizations — MDC, DRE and MRR — asking the JMWAVE Miami station to summarize which were operating or planning operations in the Dominican Republic.

CIA Western Hemisphere Division chief Desmond FitzGerald released the cable, countersigned by officer John M. Whitten, the same officer who led the Agency's initial internal review of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Public-Interest Summary

An August 1964 CIA cable signed by Western Hemisphere Division chief Desmond FitzGerald and officer John M. Whitten, responding to a Santo Domingo station query about which Cuban exile group might be based at Isla Saona off the Dominican coast. Headquarters advises the station to express only mild curiosity about the reported base and to proceed with caution given that the Dominican government is presumably responsible for any such activity on its own soil, while separately tasking the JMWAVE Miami station to canvass local sources and summarize which independent Cuban exile groups — naming the MDC, DRE and MRR organizations — were operating or planning operations in the Dominican Republic. It is a genuine snapshot of how the CIA tracked the patchwork of independent, sometimes CIA-linked Cuban exile paramilitary groups spreading across the Caribbean in the year after the Missile Crisis.

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Desmond FitzGerald John M. Whitten Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil Dominican Republic 19 August 1964

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https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10170-10055.pdf

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