we continue now with Surprise,Kill, Vanish By Annie Jacobson

...The plan to assassinate Trujillo went ahead despite Washington’s eleventhhour attempts to call it off. On the night of May 30, 1961, Trujillo was seated in the backseat of his chauffeur-driven 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, traveling down a country road outside the capital, when he was ambushed by a group of seven assassins brandishing weapons provided to the rebel group by the CIA. “We started shooting,” recalled one of the killers, General Antonio Imbert, in an interview with the BBC in 2011. President Trujillo and his chauffeur were both armed, and they began shooting back. Trujillo managed to get out of the car. “Trujillo was wounded but he was still walking, so I shot him again” and killed him, said General Imbert. “We put him in [our] car and took him away.” The assassins drove the dictator’s dead body to a safe house belonging to the partisans, where it was later discovered by state police.

Dearborn remembered hearing the news. He was out in the suburbs, at a country club. “The Chinese Ambassador was giving some kind of a money raising thing [for] charity, to which I went.” After the event ended, Dearborn and a colleague left together in a State Department car. “We started back around 11:00 p.m. and ran into a roadblock along the ocean highway.” The state police were stopping cars and conducting searches. “They looked in trunks, pulled up rugs, etc. I had a CIA fellow in the car—along about January the CIA had sent a couple of people into the consulate—and I said, ‘Bob, this is it. I am sure this is it.’” The state police wouldn’t let the men continue down that road. “When we [finally] got to the Embassy, where I had been living for about a year, the telephone rang and one of my main contacts of the opposition said, ‘It is over, he is dead.’ I knew immediately what happened and went down to the office and sent off a message to Washington.”

For the CIA, the assassination of President Trujillo had been an inadvertent success. The killers got away, although they were soon to be betrayed by coconspirator General José Román. Hundreds of people suspected of being complicit in Trujillo’s assassination were rounded up, detained, and tortured, in a move that echoed what happened in Czechoslovakia after Reinhard Heydrich’s assassination by the British Special Operations Executive. Six of the seven Trujillo assassins were caught and executed. Only General Antonio Imbert got away. Decades later, the consensus in the Dominican Republic is that killing Trujillo was a heroic act, a textbook example of tyrannicide, the justified killing of a tyrant. “We Dominicans react very negatively when the people who killed Trujillo are called assassins,” says Bernardo Vega, a former ambassador to the United States. Killing the cruelest dictator in the Americas, says Vega, “was a good thing to do.”
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