Home/ Resources / Projects / CIA Cryptonyms / bigram: EM / cryptonym: EMOTH

Cryptonym: EMOTH

Return to Main Crypts Page

Definition:
CIA plan to kill Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s.
Status:
Probable
Sources:

Church Committee: Interim Report - Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders Current Section: 6. January 20, 1961--April 17, 1961...

"On April 6, 1961, while a station officer was in Washington for consultation with Headquarters, he reported on events in the Dominican Republic and 'especially on the insistence of the EMOTH (dissident) leaders that they be provided with a limited amount of small arms for their own protection (specifically, five M3 .45 SMGs) (CIA memo for the record, 4/11/61)."

Warren Hinckle and William Turner, Deadly Secrets, p. 111 - https://archive.org/details/deadlysecretscia00hinc/page/110/mode/2up?view=theater

"...in Ciudad Trujillo, a plot the CIA had on a back burner was about to boil over. It was called EMOTH. The CIA had the same murderous plans for the right-wing dictator of the Dominican Republic that it had for Castro. The rationale for eliminating Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo was that Trujillo's bloody repressive regime was paving the way for Castroism in the country, the way Batista had done in Cuba. It was a moment of excruciating irony for the CIA. An assassination scheme it now wanted to fail was about to succeed. The Dominican conspirators planned to kill Trujillo in the apartment of his mistress. They asked the CIA for machine guns. On (4/7/61) Richard Bissell approved shipping the weapons via diplomatic pouch..."

157-10011-10018: TRANSCRIPT DATED JUNE 11, 1975, TESTIMONY OF RICHARD M. BISSELL

5/29/61: Bissell testified that the State Department wrote through a CIA channel that "we must not run the risk of U.S. association with political assassination." Hinckle and Turner, above, at p. 112, wrote "the cable went out on May 29. On May 30, 1961, Trujillo's thirty-one-year rule ended when he was being chauffeured down the seaside highway en route to a rendezvous with his mistress. His care was overtaken and forced to a stop. He died fighting back."

Contributors:
Bill Simpich

© Mary Ferrell Foundation. All Rights Reserved. |Site Map |MFF Policies |Contact Us