Disappeared because of Dissertation.
Jesús de Galíndez Suárez
Jesús Galíndez was a Spanish politician, writer and Columbia University international law professor of Basque nationalist ideology who disappeared in New York City. He was also an FBI informant.
The Dissertation
In his dissertation, The Era of Trujillo, Dominican Dictator,1 Galíndez denounced the regime of Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator,2 and made it clear that his son Ramfis was not biologically descended from the dictator.3
Galíndez was “allegedly” kidnapped and murdered based on a direct order from Rafael Trujillo, the caudillo of the Dominican Republic.
Confidential testimonies collected later make it possible to establish that he was taken from his apartment by people he trusted - investigators point to former secret service agents - drugged and taken by plane to the Dominican Republic, where he would have met the dictator before passing into the hands of his torturers. Trujillo's gunmen allegedly gouged out his eyes, cut out his tongue, pulled out his fingernails, and slowly crushed his bones with a sledgehammer. Then they burned the carcass and threw it to the sharks. —- The tragic story of Jesús Galíndez - Carta España - Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration
Disappearing from Earth
The tragic story has recently been summarized at the Yale University press blog: “The Abduction of a Professor: A True Crime Story.”4
In 2018 the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute of Dominican Studies published Disappearing from Earth : Governments, Complicity, and How a Kidnapping in the Midst of American Democracy Went Unsolved.5
Involvement of various secret police and intelligence agencies has been explored 6 including Talbot’s book on the CIA, The Devil’s Chessboard.7
Books and Media about Jesús de Galíndez Suárez (selective)
In The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize for Literature) writes about Galíndez and his disappearance.8
A documentary, Galíndez was released in 2002.9
The Galíndez case also inspired the 1991 novel Galíndez10 by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, which led to the 2003 movie El misterio Galíndez. (trailer below).
Galíndez, Jesús de. 1973. The Era of Trujillo, Dominican Dictator. Edited by Russell Humke Fitzgibbon. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.—Abridged and revised from the author's thesis, Columbia University, 1956, which was an English translation of a work originally written in Spanish and originally published in 1956 under title: La era de Trujillo.
Roorda, Eric. 1998. The Dictator next Door : The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945. Durham: Duke University Press.
Wells, H. (1974). [Review of The Era of Trujillo: Dominican Dictator, by J. de Galindez & R. H. Fitzgibbon]. The American Historical Review, 79(5), 1673–1674.
McKeever, Stuart A. 2018. Professor Galíndez : Disappearing from Earth : Governments, Complicity, and How a Kidnapping in the Midst of American Democracy Went Unsolved. [New York, NY]: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
Block, Alan A. “Violence, Corruption, and Clientelism: The Assassination of Jesús de Galíndez, 1956.” Social Justice 16, no. 2 (36) (1989): 64–88.
Talbot, David. 2016. The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. First Harper Perennial edition. New York: Harper Perennial.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. 2001. The Feast of the Goat. Translated by Edith Grossman. 1st American ed. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Margenot, John. “Galíndez by Manuel Vásquez Montalbán (Review).” Hispania 107, no. 1 (2024): 190–92.
And - nobody has ever been punished for torture murder of Professor at Univerity of Columbia….
Clearly he could not have been kidnapped and transported to Domonican republic without multiple US government officials.
Oh yes — CIA and FBI are now not what they have always been…. ;-((
Thank you!