WILSON SKIRTS ISSUE OF CIA IN JAGAN FALL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400180007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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LONDON - Prime 'Minister
1-Iarcld W i I s o n sidestepped
c;uestions yesterday about any
possible role by the U.S. Con.
tral Intelligence Agency(CIA)
in bringing down the left-wing
regime iri British Guiana be-
fore that British colony be-
came independent.
Wilson told Parliament the
p r e s c n t Labor government
was not responsible for the
South American colony in
DG3, the year-in which the
IA reportedly gave 'heavy
acking to a general strike
hat crippled the regime of
hen Prime Minister Cheddi
11 .1
Jagan.' Wilson wc.s c ecte in was self-governing and that
1964. Britain had no responsibility
.
"So far as [3r::ish-adlninis- It is deemed unlikely that
tered territories; :;:,w ar(: con- Guyana's prestint prime min-
cerned," he said. "I i