The Dominican Republic


300. Telegram From the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/1-461. Confidential; Priority.


301. Telegram From the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.39/2-461. Confidential.


302. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Dominican Republic, General, January-June 1961. Top Secret.


303. Telegram From the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/2-2461. Confidential; Priority.


304. Airgram From the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/3-2261. Secret; Limit Distribution.


305. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/4-2961. Secret; Priority. Drafted by Devine, cleared by Coerr, ARA/CMA, ARA/RPA, ARA/WST, ARA/EST, S/S, L, L/ARA, CIA, DOD/ISA, and CINCLANT, and approved by the Secretary. Repeated to CINCLANT.


306. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Dominican Republic, Murphy Trip, May-July 1961. Secret.


307. Memorandum From the Cuban Task Force of the National Security Council to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)

Source: Department of State, NSC Files: Lot 62 D 1, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Top Secret. Drafted by Hoover (S/O), cleared by Acting Secretary Bowles, Acting Assistant Secretary Coerr, Consul General Dearborn, Berle, S/O, IO, L, CIA, DOD/ISA, and DOD/J-t. According to a covering memorandum from Battle to Richard Goodwin, May 15, the report had been requested of the Cuban Task Force at the 483d Meeting of the NSC, May 6. Another covering memorandum from Theodore C. Achilles, State Department Operations Center Director, to the Secretary, dated May 26, stated it had been shown to the President who approved it on May 24 “in the absence of NSC consideration in view of the reported imminence of an attempt to assassinate Trujillo.”


309. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/6-161. Secret; Niact. Drafted by Coerr; approved by Rusk; and cleared by Bowles, Goodwin, ARA/CMA, L/ARA, S/S, and S/O. Repeated to Port-au-Prince, Bogota, Caracas, POLADCINCARIB, and Paris (where the Secretary was accompanying President Kennedy on a State visit).


310. Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State (Bowles)

Source: Yale University Library, Bowles Papers, Box 392, Folder 154. Personal. The editors have not been able to account for certain chronological discrepancies in this memorandum.


311. Telegram From the Department of State to Secretary of State Rusk, at Paris

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/6-561. Secret; Niact. Drafted by Stone, cleared by Braddock, and approved by Achilles. Also sent to Caracas, Bogota, CINC-LANT, CINCARIB, and the Commander of the Second Fleet for POLAD.


312. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Goodwin) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Meetings and Memoranda Series, Meetings with the President. Secret.


313. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/7-1061. Confidential. Drafted by Woodward. No mention of this meeting was made in the President’s Appointment Book.


314. Memorandum From President Kennedy to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Woodward)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 737.00/7-1161. No classification marking. A covering memorandum from Goodwin to Woodward, July 11, reads: “The President dictated this before his meeting with you. I thought it might be useful as a reminder of your conversation.”


315. Paper Prepared in the Department of State

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Dominican Republic, July-August 1961. Secret.


316. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.39/7-1961. Secret. Drafted by Vallon. A marginal notation indicates that Goodwin approved the telegram’s content and that it was sent on July 21 as telegram 94. (Ibid., 611.39/7-2161)


317. Special National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Central Intelligence Agency Files, Job 79-R01012A, ODDI Registry. Secret.


318. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/8-161. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Coerr, cleared by Vallon and S/S, and approved by Woodward. At 6:15 p.m., the President met with Woodward, Goodwin, Coerr, and Robert T. Morrison of the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research according to the President’s Appointment Book. (Kennedy Library) The meeting ended at approximately 8 p.m. No record of the meeting has been found


319. Draft Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/8-2461. Secret. Drafted by Coerr and Crimmins. Marginal notations indicate that this document was to be revised; however no later version was found.


321. Memorandum From the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Hilsman) to Acting Secretary of State Bowles

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/9-2261. Confidential. A covering memorandum indicates that this paper was sent to Bundy on September 22.


322. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/10-361. Secret. Drafted by Hill and Ball.


323. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Goodwin) to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Dominican Republic, Murphy Trip, August 1961-May 1963.


324. Airgram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in Ciudad Trujillo

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/10-1361. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Hill, Martin, Crimmins; cleared by Coerr, Martin, Hill, McGhee, ARA/RPA, ARA/REA, S/S; and approved by Ball.


325. Telegram From the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/11-1661. Secret; Niact; Operational Immediate.


326. Telegram From the Consulate General in the Domincan Republic to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/11-1761. Secret; Niact; Limit Distribution.


327. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/11-1761. Secret; Niact; Limit Distribution; Verbatim Text. Drafted by Crimmins, cleared by Coerr, and approved by Woodward.


329. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in the Dominican Republic

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 739.00/11-1761. Secret; Niact; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Coerr; cleared by Jamison, Achilles, Crimmins, Schlesinger, L, and S/S; and approved by Woodward.