Word: galindez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictator falls afoul of Washington, his opponents are emboldened to try to topple him. This year, Trujillo is in bad grace with the U.S., which officially suspects that the Dominicans hired U.S. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy to carry out the airplane-kidnaping of Trujillo Critic Jesús de Galindez from Manhattan 16 months ago. But to Trujillo's satisfaction, the axiom has not worked. The Dominicans are as docile as ever. The educated few who know of the Galindez-Murphy case (in some instances from Puerto Rican radio broadcasts) publicly refuse to comment, privately shrug: "What...
...Flop. In only one business venture-the tourist trade-has the dictator proved a flop. He spent $25 million erecting a gigantic "International Fair for Peace and Progress," opened the doors for business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
...Cancer Patient." Pilot Murphy was hired by the Dominican Airline six weeks before Galindez vanished, was made a copilot in spite of defective eyesight, which had barred him from U.S. military or commercial flying. Cocky and buoyant, he settled in Ciudad Trujillo, flew in and around the Dominican Republic for ten months. And one of the flights, he boasted in indiscreet moments last summer and fall, had been a hush-hush special job. His plane, he said, had taken Scholar Galindez, disguised as a "cancer patient," from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic...
...believe. From inside the Dominican Republic came a report that Pilot De la Maza as well as Pilot Murphy had talked. By De la Maza's story, he and Murphy together had indeed spirited a cancer patient from Miami to Ciudad Trujillo. But the mysterious passenger was not Galindez. It was, instead, one Francisco ("The Lame One") Martinez Jara, urgently wanted then and now by U.S. authorities on suspicion of arranging the Galindez kidnaping. (Martinez Jara himself has since been reported missing, and his wife was killed last August in an automobile accident in Ciudad Trujillo...
Significantly, the U.S. note specifically included a request for De la Maza's alleged suicide note. Washington's investigators obviously wanted a look at the handwriting. And until the Dominican Republic proved its story, U.S. police could not discard the suspicion that Galindez' disappearance had brought in its train as many as four cover-up murders...