Forbes Burnham person
also: Burnham, Jagen's opponent, Ford's Burnham, Forbes-Burnham, Forbes, Burnham
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Claims (17)
United Kingdom installed
Forbes Burnham documented
“unlike his done in Britain, appointed Forbes Burnham, who had placed second to form the new government. Burnham, as I had said, had already been designated a terrorist in a British police report. Joggin refused to resign. British army troop…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 43:12
CIA trained
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 8:11
CIA supplied_arms_to
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“frightened Gaiwanese and affected registration. The CIA explored military training for some of the anti-Jagan activists and had a contingency plan to arm them. McGeorge Bundy approved it May 7th, a week after Helms proposed it. And guess wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 9:47
CIA funded
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 17:38
CIA funded
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 18:03
United Kingdom installed
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“So they're declaring victory because Jiggin didn't get the majority. The British turned to Forbes Burnham to form a government. This sounds almost exactly like what happened in Ukraine in 2004, where the guy that they didn't want to get ele…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 19:34
CIA funded
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 19:04
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
208 Committee approved
Forbes Burnham documented
“These figures bear that out. Several of the status reports to the 303 concerned Guyana. In March of 67, the CIA proposed a new covert operation to influence the next election. In other words, rig it, interfere with it. The 303 committee app…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 38:08
CIA funded
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 45:30
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. targeted_for_regime_change
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“At informal secret talks, the Americans presented their action program. You know, the one that Kennedy said don't do. McMillan still rejected the most energetic measures, but decided he could abide by some CIA efforts to manipulate Guyana's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 33:14
CIA recruited
Forbes Burnham host_asserted
“In early 1962, the CIA had no station in Georgetown and lacked direct contact with Jagen's opponent, Forbes Burnham. That's not true. The CIA was already there operating just undercover because Forbes Burnham was already on their payroll. H…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 44:41
CIA paid
Forbes Burnham host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 12:41
CIA paid
Forbes Burnham host_asserted
“Under Burnham, if Burnham will commit himself to multiracial policy, could cause us fewer problems. He was already on the payroll of the CIA. Schlesinger intended his policy advice to guide Kennedy's decision on covert actions. The CIA carr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 33:44
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
CIA funded
Forbes Burnham book_quoted
“East Indian-based political party, one different from Jagan's. The CIA replied on November 26th that the most suitable candidates to lead the new movement were reluctant to do so. In early December, the agency followed up with a report that…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 5:16
Forbes Burnham headed
People's National Congress host_asserted
“And by the way, Forbes Burnham, which we'll get into a little later, had terrorist ties of the People's National Congress. That was his political party. And it primarily was made up of the blacks. So you had basically the setting off of an …”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 12:58
Mentions (36)
▶ 12:33
The CIA has done so unofficially on numerous occasions, sometimes to the displeasure of the British authorities. The CIA set to work to fortify the unions, which already tended somewhat to be supportive of Joggin's leading opponent, Forbes …
▶ 12:58
And by the way, Forbes Burnham, which we'll get into a little later, had terrorist ties of the People's National Congress. That was his political party. And it primarily was made up of the blacks. So you had basically the setting off of an …
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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…
▶ 33:35
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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except when it approaches its own doorsteps. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The day before the elections, in December, a letter appeared in British Guyana newspaper. The CIA had written a fake letter and signed Joggin's wife Janet's name …
▶ 43:12
unlike his done in Britain, appointed Forbes Burnham, who had placed second to form the new government. Burnham, as I had said, had already been designated a terrorist in a British police report. Joggin refused to resign. British army troop…
▶ 44:37
relief for him because it did no one any good after having lived under Burnham's rule. Because, just so that you guys know if you look this up, the way they had structured it once they gave the freedom, and they did grant the freedom once t…
▶ 45:00
The way they had set up the government was the president was going to be basically a show figure. And that became, in 1970, Arthur Chung, who was a Chinese guy, which is totally weird. And it was the prime minister who had all the power. We…
▶ 45:27
He changes the Constitution to empower the president to have executive authority. And then he mysteriously gets elected as president in 1980. So basically from 1970 until 85, he is in charge of Guyana, which is going to play a part in just …
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1994 for the U.S. based on the 30-year rule to declassify British Guyana documents, the CIA refused to do so, according to the New York Times, because it was not worth the embarrassment. Because the guy that they would be releasing the info…
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independence and forbes burnham uh who is a terrorist by the way um being put in power in guyana there is a terrorist training camp that is bought and set up by jim jones who is also a cia agent who then goes overthrow of the government in …
▶ 12:09
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…
▶ 33:14
At informal secret talks, the Americans presented their action program. You know, the one that Kennedy said don't do. McMillan still rejected the most energetic measures, but decided he could abide by some CIA efforts to manipulate Guyana's…
▶ 33:44
Under Burnham, if Burnham will commit himself to multiracial policy, could cause us fewer problems. He was already on the payroll of the CIA. Schlesinger intended his policy advice to guide Kennedy's decision on covert actions. The CIA carr…
▶ 44:41
In early 1962, the CIA had no station in Georgetown and lacked direct contact with Jagen's opponent, Forbes Burnham. That's not true. The CIA was already there operating just undercover because Forbes Burnham was already on their payroll. H…
▶ 48:55
This study looked at the Georgetown riots and concluded that racial conflict was likely to continue and be the basic factor in Guyana politics. That offered the DO operators the obvious ability to exploit. They created it, and now we're goi…
▶ 50:01
The conclusions flew in the face of Washington's rationale for the operation, but that didn't matter. Also ignored were the warnings that Burnham's leadership weaknesses and the potential dangers of a government under his control. But the j…
▶ 50:33
had polled 41% of the votes. From an operational viewpoint, the problem was to increase Burnham's attractiveness, cooperate with third-party movements like the United Front, and produce a coalition to go against Jagen's popularity. The meas…
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The representatives reported that Jagen had the upper hand, but Burnham's party conducted almost no organizational activity. Efforts to discredit Jagen included a united front surfacing a document with the text of his secret address to a 19…
▶ 1:06:12
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,…
▶ 3:30
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…
▶ 5:16
East Indian-based political party, one different from Jagan's. The CIA replied on November 26th that the most suitable candidates to lead the new movement were reluctant to do so. In early December, the agency followed up with a report that…
▶ 8:11
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…
▶ 11:23
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…
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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…
▶ 16:31
The U.S. consul in Georgetown reported that to Bundy and Helms and Tyler's group on September 11th that he had tried to forge relations with Burnham but could not. Quote, Burnham is a racist and probably anti-white. Remember slights and rep…
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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…
▶ 17:38
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…
▶ 18:32
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…
▶ 19:04
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…
▶ 20:09
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.…
▶ 38:08
These figures bear that out. Several of the status reports to the 303 concerned Guyana. In March of 67, the CIA proposed a new covert operation to influence the next election. In other words, rig it, interfere with it. The 303 committee app…
▶ 38:40
By this time, Ambassador met directly with Burnham in early June, and the record of their conversation shows they explicitly discussed how overseas votes in the election would be manipulated, even to the number of votes for different partie…
▶ 39:10
could have halted the flow of money. It did not. Between 62 and 68, the CIA spent more than $2 million interfering with Jagen and him being the prime minister in support of Burnham, which ended up as a fiasco, as they all do. In December 16…
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Atkins had served in Santo Domingo and Pinochet's Chile. Well, that's interesting. So he's part of the DINA training and setting up the black sites and USAID's torture program. He then shows up as station chief in none other than Guyana. Is…
▶ 45:30
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…