151. Memorandum From Acting Director of Central Intelligence Helms to the Deputy Director for Plans of the Central Intelligence Agency (Fitzgerald)1
Washington, December 29, 1965.
SUBJECT
- Presidential Election in the Dominican Republic
- 1.
- Mr. Spera2 called this office yesterday in an effort to locate some written document describing the Presidentʼs wishes with respect to our activities in the upcoming Dominican presidential election. To be frank, I thought I had written on this subject to you back in early June, but I am unable to find any record of such a memorandum among my papers. Therefore, I want to reiterate, for the record, that the President told the Director and me on more than one occasion between May and mid-July, he expected the Agency to devote the necessary personnel and material resources in the Dominican Republic required to win the presidential election for the candidate favored by the United States Government. The Presidentʼs statements were unequivocal. He wants to win the election, and he expects the Agency to arrange for this to happen.
- 2.
- If you are finding road blocks in the way of getting on with this operation, I would appreciate being advised, so that the difficulties can be identified to the President with the aim of securing his influence on the side of financial allocations in support of the appropriate candidate.
RH