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U.S.A. IN SOUTH AMERICA JAGAN

On Sunday, April 23, Leslie C. Stone, wrote the Sunday Times stating that we were responsible for the racialism and bloodshed. In reply, the Insight Team said: “The racial strife was fairly amicable, except for relatively minor scuffles between hotheads in 1962, until the 1963 strike divided the country. Nor would the 1964 báteles in the sugar fields have been so protracted and blood, but for the legacy of racial bitterness.

On the same date, the Sunday Times Insight Team carried another exposé headlined: Macmillan, Sandys backed CIA anti-Jagan plot. It implicated Harold Macmillan, former prime minister; Duncan Sandys, former Commonwealth and Colonial Secretary; two top security men in Britain’s and a number of British officials in Guyana. It said that “not all the British officials on the spot were happy with what the Americans were doing”. . . with “such massive manipulation of the local political scene. This feeling was strengthened bu the fact that the CIA’s efforts were worsening the colony’s already severe racial difficulties: the Africans supported Burnham and the Indians supported Jagan, and tension between the two radical groups grew as the CIA levered two sides further apart. (Eventually, this broke out in the bloodshed.)”

The story also asserted that “the CIA were also operating under consular cover in Guyana.”

This should explain:

1. The refusal for the Governor to carry out the request of the PPP Council and Ministers for the expulsion in 1963 of Howard MacCabe, CIA agent, and the delay in expelling in 1962, Dr. Joost Sluis of the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade.

2. The failure of the Commissioner of Police to take effective action against demonstrators, trade union and political leaders who violated the Proclamation Order prohibiting demonstrations in the restricted area surrounding the Parliament Building, also against those who were associated with a secret illegal radio transmitter found in a van owned by d’Aguiar Bros. Ltd., a company owned and controlled by Peter d’Aguiar (leader of the recreationally United Force and until September, 1967, Minister of Finance) and his family.

3. The delay bu the Governor, Sir Ralph Grey, in bringing out at crucial times, during 1962 and 1963, the British armed forces to aid the police in maintaining law and order.

4. The failure to break up the PNC (the party of the now Prime Minister, L.F.S. Burnham) terrorist organization, although the Governor and the Commissioner of Police knew of its insurrectionary