INDICATIONS OF A POSSIBLE COUP D ETAT BY THE JAMIACA DEFENSE FORCE ON OR ABOUT 12 MARCH 1980

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• Publication Date: March 11, 1980

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SUBJECT: INDICATIONS OF A POSSIBLE COUP D'ETAT BY
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THE JAMAICA DEFENSE FORCE ON OR ABOUT 12 MARCH 1980
1. THE RULING PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY (PNP) GENERAL
SECRETARY AND MARXIST, D.K.DUNCAN, SAID THAT UNKNOWN
ELEMENTS OF THE JAMAICA DEFENSE FORCE (JDF) ARE PLANNING
A COUP D'ETAT ON OR ABOUT 12 MARCH 1980 BECAUSE OF THEIR
INCREASING CONCERN OVER THE CONTINUED DETERIORATION OF
CONDITIONS IN JAMAICA, THEY BELIEVE THAT THE PRESENT
GUVERNmENT Is NOT ABLE TO PREVENT CONTINUED
ECONOMIC DECLINE, POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND THE INCREASE
OF VIOLENCE IN FAMAICA.
2, ACCORDING TO DuNCAN, JDF PERSONNEL ARE NO PROBING
THE JAmAICA CONSTABULARY FORCE (JCF) TO ASSESS AND DETERMINE
IF THE JCF NOULD OPPOSE A COUP ATTEMPT. DuNCAN SAYS THAT
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THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT OPPOSITION JAmAlCA LABOR PARTY
(JLP) FOLLOwING IN THE JDF AND A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF
ANT1�MANLEY SYMPATHIES THROUGHUO THE JCF. THESE GROUPS
PROBABLY viOULD NUT INTERFERE voITH A COUP ATTEMPT.
3. (SOURCE COMMENT: IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE JDF IS
CONSIDERING 12 mAHCH FUR A COUP ATTEMPT BECAUSE PRIME
MINISTER mICHAELMANLLYIS PLANNING TO DEPART
KINGSTON, JAMAICA AT 0900 HOURS ON 12 mARCH FOR CURACAO
AND THEN ON TO GRENAuA, mANLEY'S LATEST PLANS ARE TO
RETURN TO JAMAICA IN THE EVENING OF 13 MARCH AND SEND
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER P.J.PATTERSONTO BARBADOS.
MANLEY MAY BE COMING SACK EARLY BECAUSE OF THE UNSETTLED
IMF ISSUE PRESENTLY BEING DEBATED OR BECAUSE OF
INCREASING PARANOIA OVER SECURITY CONDITIONS.)
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