USSR-GRENADA: FORGING CLOSER TIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00049R001403440028-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2007
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: September 9, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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USSR-GRENADA: Forging Closer Ties
The USSR is expanding cooperation with Grenada and has offered
to build a new deepwater port at Grenville in exchange for visiting
rights for Soviet warships.
Prime Minister Bishop, during his visit to Moscow in
July, reportedly welcomed the offer and agreed in prin-
ciple to permit naval visits after receiving advance no-
tice. Soviet and East German technicians also are to
establish a Soviet satellite station and install telephone
equipment. The first resident Soviet ambassador is due
in Saint,Georges by the end of the month.
A large shipment of military equipment reportedly
was delivered last month by Cuba. The equipment apparent-
ly was moved to the new international airport and a
military cam , both under construction with Cuban aid.
Comment: Moscow's initiatives are clearly the
result of Bishop's visit to the USSR, during which he
strongly endorsed Soviet policies and forecast a stronger
and more direct Soviet role in Grenada. The USSR almost
certainly will expand its presence in cooperation with
Cuba, which has been providing development projects and
military aid to Grenada since Bishop seized power in
1979. Access to a port in Grenada would be convenient
for Soviet Navy operations in the Caribbean.
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