343. Editorial Note
On May 1, 1962, President Kennedy chaired a White House meeting on the Dominican situation according to the President’s Appointment Book. (Kennedy Library) Present were Under Secretary of State McGhee, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin, Ambassador to the Dominican Republic John Bartlow Martin, Rafael Pico, temporary U.S. coordinator of economic aid to the Dominican Republic, Teodoro Moscoso and Newell Williams of AID, [text not declassified] of CIA, and Ralph Dungan of the White House staff. No formal record of the meeting was kept. During the meeting, which lasted from 4:30 to 5:27 p.m., the President inquired about the Dominican sugar quota, the upcoming Dominican elections, the activities of the recently established MAAG in Santo Domingo, and the chances of a military coup in the Dominican Republic. He asked that the Dominican police force receive U.S. instruction in riot control techniques. (Martin, Overtaken by Events, pages 121-122)