CURRENT ACTIVITIES OF A SPECIAL ASSISTANT IN THE GUYANESE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 16160111
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2022
• Case Number: F-2021-01049
• Publication Date: October 31, 1972

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DATE: 08-20-2007.
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SUBJECT: Current Activities of a Special Assistant
in the �ese Ministry of Informatibn and
Culture
1.
Julia
w o is current y serving as a pecia 1ssistant in the
Guyanese Ministry of Information and Culture])()
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ments, including political tasks,
rectly under Prime Minister
URNHAM who appears to have a
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standards, was recently appointed to
the newly organized propaganda committee
of the ruling People's National Congre s :Gs)
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, B. MAYFIELD, a cordaide'd black .
power radical, has been allow Rif.a.23/
maintain some: contact with'Et4i AYANA
leader of the African Society forr--ult
Relations with Ind-ep�en&M.--AfiiCa (ASC IA)
but understands the Prime Minister's
political difficulties and the necessity
for the government to disassociate itself
from much of ASCRIA'ss doctrine; MAYFIELD
recently concurred in a paper advising
the Prime Minister to cultivate and
.pacify the East Indian community.tS)
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who is out of favor with the Prime.
Minister. Nevertheless,
the Prime
Minister will arrange for MAYFIELD to'
be granted Guyanese citizenship in
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2. The above information 'concerning MAYFI LD is
being provided to your Bureau in reply to your Washington,
D.C. letter,. dated 23 May 1963, Subject: Julia Hudson
Mayfield - Security Matter' C, Ana Livia CordeTo Mayfield
Security - C4� .which reepested infortation concetnin2
MAYFIELD's activities while he is abroad.
3. The above information is being provide 4 to your
-Bureau with the understanding that it will receive no
'further dissemination other than to your approptiate
field offices, without the prior approval of this office;
and that any reference to it in internal Bureau documents
will state only that it was obtained from.a confidential
source.
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