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INFO EUR 151IO l31ACDA l61SS 251GPM 0'+1NSC 101NSA 021CIAE 001nODE 001 
R 2123.i+6Z AUG 68 
FM AMEMBASSY SANTO DOMINGO 
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 5927 
INFO AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 
AMEMBASSY BELGRADE 
AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST 
AMCONSUL SAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS 

C 8 14 F I B E 14 T I A L SANTO DOMI"NGO 3'+59 
• SUBJECT• PRO CONDEMNS SOVIET INTERVENTION• PENA GOMEZ SUGGESTS CANCELLING BOSCH TRIP TO SOVIET UNION 
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l• PRO SECGEN PENA GOMEZ APPEARED ON TV INTERVtEW AFTERNOON AUGUST 21 TO SAY PRO, AS DO ALL DEMOCRATS THROUGHOUT WORLD1 Rr~ JECTS AND REPUDIATES SOVIET INTERVENTION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA• S~ID 
TRUE TO PARTY•S NATION~LISTIC ANO ANTI·INTERVENTIONIST ORIENTA• TlON1 PRO OPPOSES INTERVENTlON BY ANYONE WHETHER JUSTtrJCATlO~ GIVEN IS TO SAVE LIVES IAS INCASE US•OR INTERVENTIONI OR to s•VE COUNTRY FROM ENEMIES OF SOCIALISM (AS IN CASE SOVtET AND W~Rsiw PAC~ IN TERVENTION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA)• 
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TROOPS INTERVENING IN CZECHOSLOVAK1A WOULD , l~PLY FALSE SOLIDA~ITY WITH THAT COUNTRY• 
3, IN CLOSING PENA GOMEZ EXPRESSED THANKS POR OPPORTUNITY PRO 
REAFFIRM ITS NATIONALISTJC ANO ANTI•INTERVENTIONIST POSfTlON IN °•THESE DRAMATIC MOMENTS WHEN POWERFUL COUNTRY TRAMPLING SMALL 
COUNTRY•S SACRED SOVEREIGNTY•" 
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4~ COMMENT• PRO CONFIDANT SACHA VOLMAN SAtO PENA GOMEZ MAD LE~T VOLMAN°S APARTMENT IMMEDIATELV BEFORE MAKING eROADCAST1 AND His BEEN VERY UPSET BY SOVIET INTERVENTION• SAlO PENA DECIDED ~ROAiBIT BOSCH TRIP SOVIET UNION FROM THIS END BECAUSE "~AS NOf OVER -~6N• FIDENT ANYTHING WOULD HAPPEN FROM OTHER END•" 
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