WILSON DODGES QUERY ON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400180008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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questions today about. the, U.S. lleged that the CIA had
Central Intelligence Agency's pent - upwyards of $700,000
role in bringing down the left- ver a five-year period to abet
wing Jagan regime in British union uprising which cul-
Guiana before independence. inated in a 79-day general
trike in 1963.
He told Parliament the pres- According to the paper, the
ent Labor government, which unds flowed through the Pub-
took office in October of 1964, is Services of International of
was not responsible for the ondon and the U.S. Feder-
tion _ of State, County and
colony in 1963. In that year lunicipal Employes. The PSI 1
the CIA allegedly gave back- s an. international organ-
ing to 'a general strike that nation representing 3.5 mil-,
crippled the regime of h1'rime on government workers in.
Minister Cheddi Ja an: ome 80 countries.
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"So far as British?adminis? enied it had done anything
tered territories now are con- mproper in sending money to.
cerned," he said, 'I know of n affiliated union on strike in'
no activities of this kind, and ritish Guiana. But the state
ent admitted that the PSI
you can be pretty sure lf.there ffiliate in America, the Fed?'
were any I should." ration of State, County and:
Article Unchallenged unicipal Employes, had been;
The effect was to leave un? past beneficiary of CIA larg?
sse:
challenged a story in the April On all sides, there Is agree-
13 London Sunday Times lent that the general strike
which told of how the CIA al? ed Britain to change the cold-'
legedly poured money , into y's voting, laws in a manner;
".citish Guiana, 'using British
and American unions as at favored the anti?Jagan,
"fronts." a6.ties in a 1964 cleclion.I
Left-win". Laborites ? urged+ Quintin Hogg, a Tory
::n Investigation of the, poke . sman, sa i i today "are
charges, but Wilson replied; ere not many foreign-origin-
that the country-independent' ting 1 bodies seeking to sub-
since May, 1966 as Guyana-;
wa:. self-governing and Britain ert law and order in, British-
had no responsibility, . . dminister.:,.d territories? Why
it only . i:ose coming from
It is . thought unlikely that;
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Guyana's present Prime Minis, e United States which excite
ter, Forbes Burnham, would embers opposite?"
approve an investigation since. Wilson replied that wherev.
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the ensuing controversy would r such activities occurred he
enefit his adversary, Jagan. as sure he had the backing
The exchange in the House. f Parliament in countering'
? f Commons was the first sig- em-adding tartly that he
ificant backlash in Britain ad the backing of half the
rising from disclosures' that louse when his government
he CIA had contributed to led to deal with subversion
rivate organizations ,a~;- Rhodesia.
1 It was noted that no, Tory
f the Sunday Times article
out events which occurred
fore Wi,son's election in Oc-
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