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Claims (40)
Cheddi Jagan headed
Progressive Party documented
“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.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 3:35
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan documented
“had no armed forces to draw into the game. And Jagen's popularity remained such that even after the Georgetown riots, no possibility existed for armed resistance, which in any case, the British army would fight. The broad strategy was evide…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 45:41
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“and foolish. The British could have seen through the subterfuge and turned Kennedy down. Instead, they played straight and the meeting concentrated on how to put Forbes-Burnham-led coalition in power. William McCabe met with the Guyanese un…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 3:30
United Kingdom funded
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“that proportional representation, and that would be the guiding formula in the upcoming Gaiwanese election, not unlike they do here with the ranked choice voting. The British took that action in the fall of 1963. Jagen's letter to Kennedy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 3:59
McGeorge Bundy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“If Great Britain resumed direct control, there would be more scope for the new party. On December 6th, Mac Bundy convened Helms and others and determined to put pressure on British and Canadian diplomats on the direct rule question. It fail…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 5:43
McGeorge Bundy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“When Gordon Chase approached him on the matter at the end of July, McBundy returned the memo with a handwritten reply, I'd Stonewall for now. When Jagen's political opponent came to Washington toward the end of August, Gordon Chase advised …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 14:01
Forbes Burnham overthrew
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“All right, Burnham went on to rule like a dictator until he died in office. He was racist and imperious as many had feared. Guyana's export industries of sugar rice and borscht atrophied. By 1984, the wills had come full circle.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 20:09
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Jagen had to reject an American nominated for ambassador who had been, so you guys have to understand this. This is so freaking crazy. The U.S. nominated one of the former officers involved in Jagen's overthrow to be their ambassador to Jag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 21:01
Cheddi Jagan founded
Progressive Party book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 10:40
United Kingdom removed_from_power
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 11:40
United Kingdom ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 12:09
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 14:17
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 16:47
Cheddi Jagan carried_out_attack
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“a meeting with Kennedy to plead his case. He traveled to Washington, saw Kennedy, and Kennedy basically avoided giving any commitment. The American record notes that Jagen was, quote unquote, evasive. In his biography of Kennedy, Schlesinge…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 17:47
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“I must tell you now that I have reached the conclusion that it is not possible for us to put up with an independent British Guyana under Jagen, Rusk wrote. He saw him as a quote-unquote Marxist-Leninist paralleling Castro. They have literal…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 24:37
Dean Rusk targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“It seems to me clear that new elections should now be scheduled, and I hope we can agree that Jagen should not be allowed to compete. There remained dissenting voices in the Kennedy administration. One of them was Adelaide Stevenson, Washin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 25:07
Lord Home removed_from_power
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“which might be inferred from the last sentence of your letter, unquote. Stevenson ended by asking to be briefed on any CIA plans. Lord Hume was not persuaded. The foreign secretary replied to Rusk and declared that Great Britain would not g…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 26:04
Alexis Johnson targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Deputy Undersecretary of State Hugh Alexis Johnson took pains to say the U.S. feared chaos in a communist government, insisting on the need to work closely to avert a catastrophe. Code words to convince London to acquiesce to U.S. action, i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 31:12
Alexis Johnson targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Johnson indicated that Washington saw Jagen in the same light that they saw Castro. We do not intend to be taken twice, he said. The British, on the other hand, reported that Guyana's large sugar corporations were not worried and mentioned …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 31:41
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. framed
Cheddi Jagan host_asserted
“summarized the concept. Schlesinger was impressed with Burnham, not knowing he was already on the CIA's payroll in a Washington's visit. He told JFK in a memo dated June 21st, I agree that the evidence shows increasingly that Jagen's heart …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 51:35
Dean Rusk framed
Cheddi Jagan documented
“summarized the concept. Schlesinger was impressed with Burnham, not knowing he was already on the CIA's payroll in a Washington's visit. He told JFK in a memo dated June 21st, I agree that the evidence shows increasingly that Jagen's heart …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 51:35
Richard Ishmael carried_out_attack
Cheddi Jagan documented
“On the other hand, Meekins also claims that McCabe, well-established as a CIA employee, had been nothing more than a dedicated labor union organizer. So, in other words, Meekins the liar. There were physical attacks on government officials,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 1:06:12
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 4:05
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 5:00
CIA spied_on
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“The agency looked ahead to elections in the South American country, concluded that Jagen's political party, quote, will probably succeed in winning the right to form the next government, unquote. The CIA further concluded, Jagen himself is …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 6:02
Cheddi Jagan exposed
CIA book_quoted
“From the prime minister's residence, called Red House, Jagen watched as entire blocks of the downtown area was lit on fire. Jagen later told a British diplomat, as relayed to Americans, that he thought leaders of the United States and CIA o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 21:35
Cheddi Jagan targeted_for_regime_change
CIA host_asserted
“Prime Minister Jagen asked for the UN inquiry, but ultimately settled for one from the British Commonwealth. Jagen's charges that the CIA fomented the 1962 riots have been repeated. And then the author says they were rejected, but we now ha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 22:05
Inter-Services Intelligence carried_out_attack
Cheddi Jagan host_asserted
“So he's part of the CIA front company set up to manipulate world governments. And he's deciding that Joggin cannot be in charge because of a strike that MI6 and CIA orchestrated against him. And now they're going to use it against him again…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 37:22
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 1:58
United Kingdom targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan host_asserted
“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 …”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 38:22
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Cheddi Jagan host_asserted
“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 …”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 38:22
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. exposed
Cheddi Jagan documented
“at this conference. Schlesinger said that it was his recommendation to the British that led to the proportional recommendation change in the Constitution. And here's a quote for him, the little bastard. I felt badly about my role 30 years a…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 44:05
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 1:58
Winston Churchill removed_from_power
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 5:56
United States blocked_travel_of
Cheddi Jagan documented
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 7:26
Forbes Burnham overthrew
Cheddi Jagan documented
“The Queen's government waved a hand over a piece of paper again, enacting another amendment to their constitution, closing a loophole that made Joggin have to leave. In 1990, at a conference in New York City, author Schlesinger publicly apo…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 43:42
Juan Trippe refused_service_to
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 7:26
William McCabe recruited
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“and foolish. The British could have seen through the subterfuge and turned Kennedy down. Instead, they played straight and the meeting concentrated on how to put Forbes-Burnham-led coalition in power. William McCabe met with the Guyanese un…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 3:30
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 40:08
Dean Rusk ordered_assassination_of
Cheddi Jagan book_quoted
“Castro-aligned state. On a previous occasion, Rusk had urged Gordon Walker's conservative predecessor, Lord Holm, to suspend the Constitution and revert to a direct colonial government. So you have the United States representative telling a…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 40:38
Mentions (77)
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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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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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So he's not technically a president or anything like that. But he is the elected representative of the people in the British established government in Guyana, which still recognized at this time the queen. Very confusing. So Jagan's victory…
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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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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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in these countries throughout South America. That was their recruiting program. The CIA, according to the Sunday Times, said, quote, the Sunday Times said, quote, appears to have had a good deal of success in encouraging politicians to brea…
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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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Health care and stuff like that tended to be a little bit socialistic. None of it was communistic. But there was a particular journal called the Monthly Review that he said that he read. And that supposedly, according to Schlesinger, sealed…
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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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happened in many other cases. So I just want to say that it may in fact be true, but it would be based on information he was provided by his staff, and it's inconsistent with most other aspects of Kennedy. So I just wanted to caveat that. I…
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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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All of his adventures was all while he was a CIA agent, but not necessarily depicted that way. The strike period was marked by repeated acts of violence, provocation, including attacks on Joggin's wife and some of his ministers. Ishmael him…
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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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for the terrorist. This agent was later denounced by Joggin and forbidden to ever enter the country again. This is probably a reference to a guy by the name of Gene, oh no, this is the guy whose obituary I found, Gene Meekins, one of the CI…
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If they're doing this in other countries to overthrow the countries, they are damn sure doing it in the United States. The Sunday Times, quote, Joggin seems to have thought that the unions could hold out a month. But McCabe, who is a CIA ag…
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not noted for his mercy and bargaining with newspaper management, was shocked. Here's a quote from him. It was rapidly clear to me that the strike was wholly political, he said. Joggin was giving in to everything the strikers wanted, but as…
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to the government, forcing Joggin to appeal to Cuba for oil, which of course then we know will then trace back to the Soviet Union, which then brings all of the same, oh my God, we're working with communists here. Do you see these patterns?…
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We get pieces of this in different ones. This like literally uses everything that they use here in the United States. The strike was maintained primarily because this part coming up is going to really piss you off. The strike was maintained…
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The tension broke out into bloodshed, leaving hundreds dead and wounded and a legacy of racial bitterness. So you can go back and I would be willing to bet if we had the time to spend on every race riot in the United States, we are going to…
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of what was transpiring around him. This is a quote from him. The United States, in spite of protestations to the contrary by some of its leaders, is not prepared to permit a government committed to drastic and basic reforms to exist in the…
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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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So he's part of the CIA front company set up to manipulate world governments. And he's deciding that Joggin cannot be in charge because of a strike that MI6 and CIA orchestrated against him. And now they're going to use it against him again…
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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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The agency looked ahead to elections in the South American country, concluded that Jagen's political party, quote, will probably succeed in winning the right to form the next government, unquote. The CIA further concluded, Jagen himself is …
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So in other words, they're admitting, this is like John Brennan's, it has the hallmark of Russian disinformation. They present him basically as a communist to JFK to get the authorization to do what they're going to do anyway. They also wen…
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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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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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a meeting with Kennedy to plead his case. He traveled to Washington, saw Kennedy, and Kennedy basically avoided giving any commitment. The American record notes that Jagen was, quote unquote, evasive. In his biography of Kennedy, Schlesinge…
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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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that proportional representation, and that would be the guiding formula in the upcoming Gaiwanese election, not unlike they do here with the ranked choice voting. The British took that action in the fall of 1963. Jagen's letter to Kennedy…
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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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If Great Britain resumed direct control, there would be more scope for the new party. On December 6th, Mac Bundy convened Helms and others and determined to put pressure on British and Canadian diplomats on the direct rule question. It fail…
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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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an estimated 30% of the sugar plantations. The CIA reported that Richard Ishmael's bitter complaints that his own organizers with no protection were unwilling to hold rallies. But on March 18th, the CIA reported that Jagen's police were act…
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for support for the eventual formation of an anti-Jagan Hindu party. Divide and conquer. Agency undercover advisors were assigned to each of these parties to manipulate them. Political warfare. The CIA action achieved something of an undesi…
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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…
▶ 10:20
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…
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Five to 10 houses were burning every day and 60 people had died. American diplomats in Georgetown believed that even troops could not now end the violence. No matter what I try to do, Jagen told the U.S. Consular Delmar Carlson on May 25th,…
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I laid my cards on the table to President Kennedy in 1961, and he gave me to understand that he would help me, but he didn't. And I can only conclude that he was a liar or that he was influenced to change his mind. The Gaiwanese leader made…
▶ 11:53
Um, you don't know, Burnham, Jagen said. He'll cut my throat, Jagen reported. Prime Minister Jagen again suggested a coalition. He offered to sign an international treaty to neutralize Guyana in much the same way that Austria had from 1945 …
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But whatever. Jaden wanted to send an emissary to Washington to discuss the proposal, but he was turned down. The standard working group on Guyana convened at the State Department on June 30th to include Mac Bundy, Richard Helms, William Ty…
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might conceivably cool down the security problem, but they didn't want it cooled down. Washington rejected the approach in early July of meeting with him, having a conversation, because they've already made up their mind. In Georgetown, Car…
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Peter Jessup rejected an emissary again several weeks later. Finally, Washington induced British to tell Gaiwanese that talks with the Americans had established to talk with the U.S. saw no useful purpose in receiving their emissary. The Br…
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When Gordon Chase approached him on the matter at the end of July, McBundy returned the memo with a handwritten reply, I'd Stonewall for now. When Jagen's political opponent came to Washington toward the end of August, Gordon Chase advised …
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that even with proportional representation, Jagen might still be elected prime minister. Washington told the British this would be unacceptable. By late August, the CIA announced itself cautiously optimistic about the election, but in truth…
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Ray, decided to form a new Justice Party. For a month or so, Ray appeared to do well, but then his efforts sputtered. An internal document from Jagen's PPP party, which the CIA acquired and reported on in late August, declared that local el…
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of opposition forces would not have availed were it not for the U.S. intervention. The documents recommended diffusing such opposition elements as the Portuguese Roman Catholics plus overtures to the U.S. through Canada. Forbes, Burnham con…
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softly. In other words, he's a thug and the CIA was in bed with him. By the fall of 1964, Jagen had offered concessions. CIA's third force movement was stalled. Burnham stood revealed as a treacherous ally and the British worried that Jagen…
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Senior officials remained upbeat like they do on all of these coups, even ones that stand no chance of success. Burnham's campaign buttons produced in the U.S. and doubtlessly paid for by the CIA were appearing everywhere in Georgetown. Gor…
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that the CIA, in a deniable and discreet way, had begun paying party workers. Violence escalated. The Justice Party station wagon was blown up. PNC meetings were fired upon. Jagan activists were roughed up and killed. In all, the campaign s…
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and 15,000 others were forced from their homes because they were burnt to the ground. The December elections did not turn out as advertised. Jagen had won 47% of the vote, more than either the Americans or the British expected. Burnham trai…
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But because Jagen did not obtain an outright majority, a coalition would have to be formed. The British governor simply refused Jagen the opportunity to put one together. The CIA officer elsewhere in South America noted in his diary on Dece…
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They have no place to go but to the Soviet Union or eventually China for help. And that's what they end up being. But that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, was there one time when we went into a country to overthrow the government where t…
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Having backed Ford's Burnham, the CIA found him unresponsive. They knew that going in, he was corrupt as hell. The Johnson administration were reduced to begging him to act responsibly. Anything was better than, what was his name, Jetty? Je…