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..,J;8 ~ $ ECRET J. C. King. Apparently Jake Esterline, the man who had the monkey on his back as project chief sat quietly by. The suggestion which had been made by Paul Oberst that the "waters be muddied" by making it appear that the US was backing the anti-Trujillo forces in the Dominican Republic was not introduced during the course of this briefing of the JeS, even though the Dominican Republic was included as a part of the ov~rall briefing. What did emerge with refer- ence to the Dominican Republic was a concensus that if Trujillo were ousted, there was a strong possibility that Castro might move into the Dominican Republic where he probably would. be received as a conquering hero. In the course of the discussion which followed the briefing, Admiral Burke emerged as the principal , "hawk," indicating his willingness to move fleet units into the Port au Prince, Haiti area because the sug- gestion had been made that if Castro went into·the Dominican Republic it would only be a few days time before he also would be welcomed into Haiti. In ad- dition, Bur~e made it quite clear that should the - 91 - ;rop SFP~ lciJA