Simon Thomas Stocker

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Simon Thomas Stocker was an American citizen, native of Georgia, who in 1942 arrived in the capital of the Dominican Republic, then Ciudad Trujillo, largely to help increase U.S. efforts regarding the surveillance of Nazi U-boats in the Caribbean area, and help deter Generalissimo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo against a potential collaboration with German submarines, namely through fuel supply. The fact that Stocker acknowledged this through his own accounts, might lead to contemplate the possibility that nonetheless the official siding of Trujillo's regime with the Allies, great doubts might have remained regarding Trujillo's true degree of adherence. During the early sixties, Stocker was approached by the CIA to help assist local resistance forces against the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo; at his own risk, Stocker received weapons provided by the CIA and kept them hidden inside a small closet in his personal study, at his private residence (recently demolished), located on the south side of Independecia Av., at the following geographic coordinates: 18.458654° N 69.910654° W, near General Máximo Gómez Avenue.