Guyana country
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United Kingdom suspended
Guyana documented
“Suspended the Constitution, you know, because that's a Democrat thing to do or a democracy thing to do. And removed the entire Gaiwanese government. At the same time, there were papers drawn up in Britain and the Queen signed them. And it b…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 6:28
Jim Jones carried_out_attack
Guyana host_asserted
“of which once the heat got turned up in San Francisco, he moved his operation that was basically an MKUltra experiment down to Guyana to that same location. And that same congressman that was on to him out in San Francisco goes down there a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:57:43
CIA overthrew
Guyana host_asserted
“mess up that election. Is that a possibility? Well, anything's a possibility. We, a long time ago, talked extensively about Guyana. The CIA has overthrown their government at least twice in Guyana. More recently, what came to light is there…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:41:16
CIA carried_out_attack
Guyana host_asserted
“and retired diplomat Robert Murphy. In early April, they received Cord Meyer, chief of the CIA's international organizations branch, and a logistical official to inform the group on actions in Latin America other than Cuba, which involved a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 39:24
Richard Ishmael carried_out_attack
Guyana documented
“British police report for having been a member of a terrorist group which had carried out bombings and arson attacks against government buildings during the strike. Sound familiar? Because, you know, back in the day, this sounds an awful lo…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 29:06
United States refused_aid_to
Guyana book_quoted
“journal was one that the State Department had deemed a little too risque. No economic aid was given to British Guyana while Joggin remained in power, and the Kennedy administration pressured the British to delay granting the country indepen…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 23:12
Guyana member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“I don't know. We'll see what happens with that. But yeah, they did open up the contracts to the BRICS countries yesterday or today. And what's important about what Cousin It just said is to the west you have Colombia and to the east you hav…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:36:54
Venezuela targeted_for_regime_change
Guyana host_asserted
“have an interest in the election. Yes, they do. I would be very skeptical of anyone's assertion that they are involved in election meddling. I would take that with a grain of salt because the people that would have been generally…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:42:12
Jonestown trained
Guyana host_asserted
“The particular area where Jonestown is, that property prior to the moving of the quote unquote church out of San Francisco and down to Guyana had been a staging area for terror training camps. When it was originally cleaned out, it was clea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 1:10:46
Internews Network carried_out_attack
Guyana host_asserted
“basically Venezuela that they couldn't overthrow and then British Guyana because it shows in the light blue where they were in Guyana because they overthrew that country twice. I'm telling you, that's the coup map. Check this out. Places th…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID @ 1:52:03
Mentions (120)
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who was a congressman and the only sitting congressman that was actually assassinated by, allegedly, the CIA. Again, not the trigger puller, but you have two trucks of people show up as soon as his plane lands. Where? Oh, at Jonestown. Jim …
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basically Venezuela that they couldn't overthrow and then British Guyana because it shows in the light blue where they were in Guyana because they overthrew that country twice. I'm telling you, that's the coup map. Check this out. Places th…
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conflict with um colombia guyana will be the other one so on the other border of venezuela on the eastern border guyana which is the only country by the way in central and south america that's part of the british commonwealth very interesti…
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in the water north of Venezuela that goes to Guyana. And so Guyana basically is saying that there's disputes now where Venezuela is not allowed to dig for oil in its own waters because Guyana claims that it's actually its territorial waters…
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Taiwan proxy for the regime for the city of London. Well, and Guyana is where Jim Jones set up a terrorist training camp that never gets talked about because of the Jonestown incident where Congressman Leo Ryan was assassinated. And so Guya…
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roll out the red carpet form, had this massive, uh, uh, um, convention and basically was saying he wanted to establish like deep ties with, with the Caribbean. And then suddenly right after that, that was when Guyana, uh, like these militia…
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And like the ancestral homeland or hometown of the Saudis. So that's the reason I was sharing. It wasn't really because of the CARICOM thing. But then all of a sudden we had CARICOM involved in this blow up with between Guyana and Venezuela…
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They didn't die of cyanide. Everything about Jonestown, we were told, was a lie. It was an MKUltra site, and it was also a Gladio training site for terrorists. That's what Jonestown was in Guyana, period. And we've already documented that. …
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And then other facets of it, for example, Guyana, that played host to Jonestown, which most people don't realize was actually a terrorist training camp for Gladio operators throughout South America before it was ever Jonestown as in Jim Jon…
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Chile one that we did. It covers all of this. Not only did they do that, there was there was Nazis put in Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia. They were everywhere down there. Yeah. Yeah.…
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I agree, Mike. And let me just add this for those of you that are new. We also did a show on Jim Jones and Guyana, and that is the perfect illustration of the overlap.…
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of the psychological operation aspect of Operation Gladio because the Guyana complex that he set up there, he was a CIA agent. He was in Brazil during their CIA-sponsored coup. And he had originally set up Guyana as a paramilitary training …
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of which once the heat got turned up in San Francisco, he moved his operation that was basically an MKUltra experiment down to Guyana to that same location. And that same congressman that was on to him out in San Francisco goes down there a…
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quite frankly, amazing. So I would ask everybody to be familiar with the fact that Guyana has a long history, and part of Guyana eventually gets separate, independent authority, and we're going to talk about that today as well.…
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But we're going to start with 1953 time period. And basically, we have, they're currently a colony of Britain. And there's a man by the name of Dr. Chetty Joggin.…
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He was the grandson of indentured immigrants from India. So the population of Guyana at the time, as a British colony, I don't know if you guys know this, but they moved a lot of their colonial citizens around, basically like they were slav…
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arrangement and or a slave arrangement in some cases. So you're going to find a lot of the inner operability of humanity in many of their British colonies. So in Guyana, there were a lot of blacks and a lot of Indians.…
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And they got along just fine because they all ended up coming there for the most part as a result of the same circumstances. So Joggin was a U.S. educated dentist. He returned to Guyana to work. And in 1953, he was 35 years old.…
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a People's Progressive Party, PPP. And basically, there were elected representatives of these different political parties, but as with most British colonies, there was like a governor that kind of was the go-between.…
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And they engaged both the British media and the American media in a campaign to basically demagogue Joggin and many of his initiatives. So four and a half months after Joggin took office, the government of Winston Churchill, to quote the au…
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the U.S. government refused to allow Joggin to pass through the United States on his way to London in order to address these issues. And according to Joggin, Han Am, which we know has a very close association with the CIA for a very long ti…
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S-T-E-T-T-I-N-I-U-S. So he's definitely one in the boys club. So by this time, the CIA had already gotten its foot into the British Guyana labor movement. Because if you're going to encourage union representatives and the rights of workers,…
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to the American Federation of Labor in the United States. And that worked with the existing British Guyana labor efforts. And one, they created a, like a subsidiary called the Inter-American Regional Labor Organization. It was called ORIT, …
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Trained Union, which is the Inter-American Regional Labor Organization, and a longtime CIA collaborator by the name of, let's see. Oh, he doesn't put his name on this one. This is a quote. Since my first visit to British Guiana in 1951, I d…
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This was to have serious repercussions for Joggin in later years. In 1957, running on a program similar to that of four years earlier, Joggin won the election again. Following this, the British deemed it wise to employ more subtle methods f…
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He told the PSI executive that he had been shopping for a donor to support the infiltration of the trade unions down in Guyana. So here's a quote. The spoils were modest at first, only a couple thousand pounds in 1958. It was the kind donor…
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admitted that the union had been largely funded by the CIA until 1964. Through a foundation conduit, it was revealed that AFSCME's International Affairs Department, which had been responsible for the British Guyana operation, had actually b…
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We saw that yesterday because it's operated in every single one of these 1950s to early 60s overthrows. They took an unusual step. They began showing films of the evils of Castroism and communism on street corners throughout British Guyana …
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because it was basically a front. Despite the orchestrated campaign directed at Joggin, he was re-elected with a comfortable majority of legislative seats, though with only a plurality of the popular vote. In October, at his request, Joggin…
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journal was one that the State Department had deemed a little too risque. No economic aid was given to British Guyana while Joggin remained in power, and the Kennedy administration pressured the British to delay granting the country indepen…
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Cuban warships approaching the coast to basically invade Guyana to help Zoggins control the mass people that were funded by the CIA. In other words, chaos agents. The centerpiece of the CIA's program in British Guyana was the general strike…
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to keep the strikers going and medical supplies for pro-Burnham workers injured in the turmoil. At one point, one of the agents even served as a member of, meaning a CIA agent, as a member of the bargaining committee for the Guyana Dyke Wor…
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if it favors a classic private enterprise system, unquote, of which the U.S. oligarchs dominate. In an attempt to surmount the hurdles of U.S. obsession with the Soviet Union and other Cuba crises in the Western Hemisphere, or the allegatio…
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All of these provocations and humiliations with elections on the agenda in 1964, British and American cousins turned once again to the power of the pen. The British colonial secretary, Duncan Sandy, who had been a leading party to the Briti…
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Drew Pearson, writing about the meeting between Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan in the summer of 1963, stated, the main thing they agreed on was that the British would refuse to grant independence to Guyana because of the general strik…
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By the CIA and British intelligence, as we've said repeatedly. So that excuse that they created was used to amend the British Guyana Constitution. Sound familiar? Because that's what they're trying to do in Haiti. Providing for a system of …
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jogging any other way. So they're just going to change the constitution to get rid of them. There's nothing they won't do to be in charge. So they basically were going to change it from the majority of legislative seats into a plurality. Su…
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Bowing to the United States' wishes, the Labour Party ruled out early independence for the British Guyana and was going ahead with the proportional representation elections. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, it was reported, had left the new Br…
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They being the oil industry in the United States and in the West, whether it's BP at UK, they have attacked them and attacked them. Who do you think is helping Guyana with their oil production? Oh, that would be us. And why would they do th…
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I don't know. We'll see what happens with that. But yeah, they did open up the contracts to the BRICS countries yesterday or today. And what's important about what Cousin It just said is to the west you have Colombia and to the east you hav…
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So those both Guyana and we talked about it when we talked about South America has been cued by the United States. Columbia, ditto. And Columbia is where the 20,000 excess terrorists were trained using drug money that was sent to South Com …
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In South America, except for British Guyana, every country in Central America, except for Belize. And the one thing those two things have in common is they vote because they're basically tied to the British Empire. But they're still basical…
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Interestingly enough, you'll recognize all of these Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, all of which, by the way, we've overthrown. So you start and there's a few others in the Caribbean. So we're going to basically be work…
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And a guy by the name of Hudson Austin ran the op that led to Maurice Bishop's assassination. And you will never guess where he got his military training. Guyana. I about fell over dead. Now, of course, again, I'm telling you, I'm looking a…
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in Guyana and there was terrorist training camps there, I go back and I look at this and I'm like, oh my God, it was staring me right in the face. And I want to point this other thing out, which is another pattern. So in the past, when you …
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for Maurice Bishop was this Austin guy. And damned if he didn't go to basically a military terrorist training camp in Guyana, just like it has happened in every one of these other ones. So I found that astonishing. And anyway, so that was j…
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This is the government they're talking about is the one that this Guyana trained guy. So this is an irony of all ironies. So Austin, the CIA stooge that just had overthrown and murdered Bishop, is the guy that they're supposedly going in to…
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have declared, we got there just in the nick of time. And it literally would have been the same thing. Comparable, because keep in mind that Maurice Bishop basically had no access to even source a military. His chief of the army had been tr…
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That became extremely relevant after World War II and after the Nuremberg trials, which is a show trial, where they sacrificed a couple of low-laying fruit and the actual Nazis with any information or skills were brought either to the Unite…
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uh contest anything that they say or go against what they say because if you do you'll end up like um any any one of them that has and they either have a plane crash or they're assassinated on a tarmac in Guyana or you know anything else th…
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When he relocated to Guyana, why did he relocate to Guyana? The reason he did is because Congressman Leo Ryan, the only active congressional member to ever be assassinated on duty, began an investigation into Jim Jones and the CIA in the op…
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Well, I had already came across evidence that Jonestown existed long before Jim Jones moved his church there. And it was used as a terrorist training camp for Operation Condor in Latin America. So he had ships. He was going from Brazil to G…
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Rockefeller's oil interest in Venezuela. So anybody in Venezuela that became a problem was taken out, launched from Jim Jones, Jonestown in Guyana. So all these people show up and if you go back and you read the autopsy of the local Guyana.…
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what we know to be Gladio as a CIA operation. And then obviously she has been with us along this entire journey and understands where in some cases when we discovered Jonestown in Guyana, the fact that it was a terrorist training camp under…
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And he's all part of that. So anyway, that's what I had to say. Thank you. Yeah. And thanks for adding that, because there is definitely a corollary, just as we learned with Jim Jones, who's out in San Francisco conducting MK Ultra experime…
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because I was brought up LDS and stuff. And I know that they used to do missions out there and then they recalled their missions because things were getting really unstable. And it just seemed like just watching what was going on. Like they…
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and use propaganda against the current government. This was written in 2020. Mercury is being paid to influence the elections. This doesn't look like a business promotional campaign. It looks like foreign meddling, maybe CIA meddling. And t…
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And the PPP is a political organization inside of Guyana. And this is basically a CIA cutout, Mercury LLC, interfering in an election in Guyana again. We've already, when we covered Guyana, told you that the CIA did this repeatedly. Corresp…
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with members of the OAS, and that's the Organization of Americas, and that is also a CIA cutout, and the U.S. government to vouch for the PPP while using excuses such as Guyana is near Venezuela. So they are basically saying that...…
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that those who resisted the lies, propaganda, and bullying do not love their country. Doesn't that sound familiar? He has also written in a way more angry tones in his past articles, though no one in the current government has attacked him …
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The opponent is pleading for international sanctions. That's an oxymoron. So people who love Guyana should be villaging against the lies and propaganda and falsehoods that are being doled out by the Mercury Public Affairs LLC. So there you …
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Alpha Warrior tonight, how you pronounce the Trende Aragua, the Venezuelan terrorist cell. I did quite a deep dive on them today. And it's very interesting, several things. One of the very first things that I noticed is their close proximit…
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And we know that the CIA, well, actually, the CIA's been involved in Venezuela for decades. But we also know that they overthrew the government in Guyana. We know that they had Jonestown terrorist training camps in Guyana. And the close pro…
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inside of a jail, a prison right on the border of Guyana. And then you realize that over the period of time that they were taking over this prison, they built restaurants inside of the prison. They built swimming, a huge swimming pool, like…
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So there was another country that was watching all of that go on and was like, what the hell is going on? That country was called Suriname. And that is the old. So just for you guys, again, another history lesson. Guyana, which we talked ab…
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And it was divided up into three during the decolonialization. There is Guyana proper, which is next to Venezuela. There is British Guyana. And then there was Dutch Guyana, which changed its name to Suriname. And I don't know if I'm saying …
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Two billion dollars worth of assets in this church because he is blackmailing all of the politicians in California for God knows what. And he's vote running both in Southern California and L.A. and in San Francisco for all of the Democrat f…
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Prior to that church moving there, you find out that that installation they plopped that church down on to continue their NK Altra experiments was a Gladio training base that they were mounting paramilitary operations from Guyana into Venez…
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The Cubans were there as part of an expeditionary force and was actually fighting. There's no evidence of that at all. The Cubans, and again, this is something that I've ran across repeatedly. That was the exact same story we were told in G…
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He was in Guyana as chief of station in 67 to 69, which would have been when they were setting up Operation Gladio terrorist training camps there. He was in Mexico 69 to 72, and he was also in Peru in the 70s, which was when they were basic…
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So, like, if Maduro falls, they're all ready to go in there and take outside of that area. What is it called? Esquiba or something. That whole zone that's right on the border of Guyana. Yeah. Yeah, where there's big conflict because there's…
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mess up that election. Is that a possibility? Well, anything's a possibility. We, a long time ago, talked extensively about Guyana. The CIA has overthrown their government at least twice in Guyana. More recently, what came to light is there…
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The contested area of the coastline that Venezuela believes is their international recognized border, as opposed to Guyana's, where the oil was discovered. And so and this has went on for decades, if not 100 years, as far as the contested l…
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involved in election interference is the U.S. corporations that want a concession from Guyana on that oil, because Venezuela has made it well known after having kicked out Exxon and all of the U.S. oil monopolies in their country. So does t…
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involving billionaire U.S. hedge fund manager Paul Singer's firm, Elliott Capital Management, and the Argentina government. In October 2012, Guyana's government apprehended a Argentine warship as it passed through the territorial waters. Th…
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$370 million debt owed by the government of Buenos Aires. Two months into Guyana's custody before the UN tribal ordered the ship be released, leaving Elliott Capital empty-handed. In theory, the concept of limited liability applied to Sitco…
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And during the time that he was in San Francisco, there was a terrorist training camp set up on property that he owned in. Hold on. Guyana. Guyana was not originally Jonestown in Guyana was not originally this haven for.…
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his church to be moved to from San Francisco. That took place much later on. It was a terrorist training camp when Jim Jones, CIA agent, and Dan Mederone, CIA front agent, working for the Office of Public Safety, both ended up in Brazil tog…
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Do you know the only two that didn't get overthrown was British Guyana and Belize, and both of those are UK properties? Surprise! There you go. Excellent. So what you got is a new threat of the Taliban, ergo 9-11, which leads me to several …
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And like Congressman Leo Ryan, who we've talked about a million times, he went to Guyana to expose the CIA and the Jim Jones child trafficking and all of that other shit, shot him dead on tarmac. Okay, lock that away. Nobody else is gonna t…
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And what we found, because we're focused on Operation Gladio, was the fact that he had a pedophilia network in San Francisco. The guy never found out. He was in Brazil during the overthrow of the Brazilian government as a CIA asset. He crea…
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2007 on. And he met with Hamas. He went to North Korea. And weirdly enough, in 2015, it was in Guyana for their elections. I just think he's got a weird choice given Operation Gladio and Condor and all of the places that we visited. He has …
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It was all ran by NATO and CIA, all of it. I just used the, there were so many in Latin America, like the entire South America and Central America, except for two, British Guyana and Belize, which are already captured by the Brits. So you r…
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not allow Yemen to have a monopoly because they wanted cheaper access to coffee. And so they're the ones that end up bringing it into some of their territories in Latin America, like in Guyana, and then it just takes off from there.…
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What had happened at the time had been deadly serious, so serious in order to get an ally to go along. The U.S. had to threaten an invasion of another enemy that would have led to nuclear war. The CIA did not quite kill Jetty Hagan, which i…
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I don't know if you pronounce his name Hagen or Jagen. It's G-A-G-A-G-A-N. The Prime Minister of British Guyana. Headed for independence as a nation of Guyana. Had raised hackles in Washington. The CIA had orders to get rid of him. In the e…
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This attempt at regime change, filtered through America's Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union, was the latest in a long series of CIA covert operations. Jagen became both victim and exemplar. Quote, we misunderstood the whole struggle d…
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had made Latin America one of his special interests. Guyana had become Schlesinger's special mistake. Of course, Schlesinger had helped. In fact, he had initially held a relatively relaxed view of Jagen as a Gaiwanese leader. The CIA was no…
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communist. She isn't in office. She's not the prime minister, but you know, she has all the hallmarks of a communist. The only bright element lay in the U.S. intelligence brief that Jagen, to preclude interference in Guyana's move towards f…
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He's not a communist and it's not likely they're going to be a communist, but we want to overthrow him anyway. President Kennedy's National Security Council assessed Guyana's situation a few weeks after the disastrous CIA failure in April 1…
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The task of figuring out what to do about Guyana rested with the same officials responsible for the failed policy of Cuba. Guyana began as a British rather than an American problem. Unable to sustain its empire following World War II, Great…
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The Dutch West India Company held on to the territory that, this is back in the 1600s, sorry, until 1796 when it fell to the English during the Napolitanic Wars. In 1814, Guyana was ceded to England by treaty. The Dutch Portuguese and Engli…
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In the 1830s, the British also introduced indentured workers from India. By the 1950s, the East Indians, as they were called, had become a dominant population of about 46%, with Africans the next largest group at 36%. Jagen was from the Eas…
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plantation economy. With large British corporations controlling most of the production and plantation workers, they were poorly paid and not provided for. They were not educated, nothing. Their energy fueled Guyana's politics. Born in 1918,…
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had done through his father's eyes. He was sent off to college in Northwestern and became a dentist. Northwestern University, sorry. He used his income to put the rest of his family through college. Jagen met Janet Rosenberg at a political …
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You know, because that's not allowed. In 1947, Jagen won election to a consultative council advising the British governor. Three years later, he and Janet founded a political party called the People's Progressive Party, the first mass polit…
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And you cannot represent your country in your own country. Jagen campaigned constantly for better working conditions and increased wages within the Sugar Producers Association. Representing the corporations that controlled the plantation, t…
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British officials convinced themselves during this period that Jagen was a communist. He wasn't. They had no evidence that he was. When he won, Jagen formed a government. His wife was elected deputy speaker of the assembly, which would be l…
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the British dismissed the entire government. In 1954, they put Jagen and his wife in prison. That just made them more popular among the people. British hoped of dampening Gaiwanese feelings for Jagen, hinged on creating alternative politica…
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of the People's Progressive Party. He was among the Africans. So the CIA went in there as well as MI6 and basically paid him to form another political party so we can play race and we can divide the people. Sound familiar? That's exactly wh…
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not as prime minister, but on the advisory group. Business interests formed another political party in 1960 called the United Front, because we're going to have a spoiler. These people basically represented the Portuguese minority. The next…
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By now, the British were less convinced that Jagen was a political extremist. In late May, U.S. officials met with the British to agree on a program of action, but London refused to join a joint operation. They did not want America doing a …
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We are not inclined to give people like Jagen the same credit or the benefit of the doubt, which was given to Castro three years ago. The British foreign secretary replied that any action would only make things worse and that London had no …
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Jagen's party won 18 of the 24 seats in the assembly, and there was no alternative worthy, capable of carrying forward, kind of like the Congo, around the exact same time. In writing about not giving the Gaiwanese leader any benefit of the …
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Within days of election, the State Department sent President Kennedy a proposal that involved two tracks, open cooperation with the Gaiwanese in hopes of inducing Jagen to align with the West, but a CIA covert political action against Jagen…
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actually helped keep the CIA out of the act, objecting that the covert initiative could easily get in the way of overt policy. JFK sided with Schlesinger. He was not interested. A second round of talks with the British took place in London …
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Among them was William Burdett, Washington's point man on Guyana policy. The CIA senior officer at the London office was none other than Frank Wisner, the agency's former covert operations chief. Bruce received instructions to minimize the …
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that any specific move would be subjected to high-level U.S. consideration and British approval. Secretary Russ told Bruce, we should keep in mind the possibility of Jagen is a communist-controlled sleeper who will establish a Castro-like g…
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Any covert operation. Author Schlesinger saw Dean Ross Cable to Ambassador Bruce and objected to the term sleeper. He said that had a specific spy connotation because, of course, it did. Prime Minister Jagen, perfectly aware the American of…
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and retired diplomat Robert Murphy. In early April, they received Cord Meyer, chief of the CIA's international organizations branch, and a logistical official to inform the group on actions in Latin America other than Cuba, which involved a…
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Where we left off, we're on page 15, and in Safe for Democracy. So where we left off is the union's involvement and everybody else's involvement in Guyana. Dean Rusk flew to London in advance of a meeting. His goal was to make...…
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made clear that the British must not leave behind a country with a quote-unquote communist government. Again, as a reminder, there's no communists there. That London must unseat Jagen before independence. On June 30th, Kennedy and Macmillan…
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and place the onus on the British crown, which of course he's doing with fake intelligence. The U.S. had made a public pledge not to invade Cuba as a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Aggressive, overt action of this sort would react…
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Having gone unanswered, Jagen called in the American consul in Georgetown to say that he had seen Washington shift to a policy of Jagen must go. The prime minister warned that his ouster would lead to a takeover by extremists. Saddling the …
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Jagan then went to New York for the opening of the UN General Assembly and tried without success to meet with Ambassador Stevenson. No doubt, Jagan understood the snub. The decision had already been made. Meanwhile, Washington conceived a f…
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in strong showings of public support. Continuing PPP marches and demonstrations coincided with the early 1964 Pandemonium Revolt against the U.S. authority in the Panama Canal Zone. That too led Washington to fear the security of Guyana. Ma…
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as JFK had. In February, the Joint Chiefs of Staff reviewed U.S. contingency planning for military intervention in Guyana. The chiefs expected that a battle group of ground troops could be inserted in 12 to 27 hours. Why 27? Depending upon …
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When the United Front refused to participate, the initiative collapsed. Jagen himself had made a counteroffer. British authorities announced voting districts in mid-April, and voter registration took place in May. The CIA provided advice an…
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The list for Georgetown contained fewer names, 95%, than in the previous election. So we're rigging the election. Other irregularities turned up. There would be more absentee voting. Sound familiar? There were more absentee voting than ther…
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supposedly alleged to belong to Jagan's party, were discovered by police. I wonder who has the history of caches of weapons. That certainly would not have been Prime Minister Jagan. That would have been the CIA. In late June, Jagan had to t…