GUNMEN IN JAMAICA HIT HOME OF U.S. AIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404080001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 5, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'r~.RTICLE APP,pA.RE.p NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE 1 5 JULY 1980
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Embassy Official Had Been Named
by Critic as an Agent of C.I.A.
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KINGSTON,. Jamaica,..July 4'- The
home of a member of the United States
Embassy staff was fired on early today,,
two days afterhe was publicly described
as the chief of station of the United States
Central Intelligence Agency. No one was
injured by the gunmen, who used auto-
matic weapons... ..
N. Richard Kittsmarr, whose-home was
attacked, and 14 other members of- the
staff of the United States Embassy were
described Wednesday as C.I.A. personnel
Cby Louis Wolf, co-editor of Covert Action:
Information Bulletin, a newsletter pub-
lished in Washington:
Prime, Minister Michael. N. Manley
issued a statement deploring the attack.
El ographlca}Information Supplied
call the police. They-were summoned this
rnorningbyneighbors... ,
Police officials said they believed that
the attackers, in addition to firing on the
house, threw an explosive device. They
found what appeared to be the pin of a
grenade, and there is a hole the size of a
basketball in the front lawn. .
biiddleof Election Campaign
Jamaica is in the middle of a hard-
fought campaign for elections expected
in October, and the Kingston slums have
been plagued by violence: At least 243
people have been killed since the elec-
tions were announced in February. Mem-
bers of each party have accused the other
of seeking foreign help for so-called mili-
tary means of forestalling the voting.
Edward P. G. Seaga, leader of the op-
position Jamaica Labor Party, has ac-
:cused the Government of collaborating
with Cuba to trainmen and import weap-
ons to create an . extra-legal military'I
force.
Those charges have been denied by Prime. Minister Manley and by the
Cubans, but the Cuban Ambassador,
Ulises Estrada, was vilified in public and
his 5-year-old son was accused of being a
threat to his schoolmates. The Ambassa- i
dor's family went home several weeks
ago.
Mr. Manley has.called Mr. Seaga's
charges a fairy story and a lie and has
said he feels that his Government and
party, the People's National.. Party, are
victims of a campaign to keep the voters
in a state of hysteria, to undermine the
confidence of investors and to ruin tour-
ism.
Mr. Wolf, at 'his- news conference
Wednesday, described' the Kingston
C.I.A. station as one of the lar'est in.
Latin America.
Quotation of the Day
'r know- objectively as-a fact there:
are C.I.A. people in Jamaica. I draw no
conclusions from that fact."- Prime
Minister Michael - N. Manley of Ja-~
inaicad
During a news conference at which Mr.
Wolf accused the intelligence agency of
trying to undermine the socialist Govern-
ment of Jamaica, he- also supplied bio-
graphical information about those. he
named. In the case of Mr. Kinsman (who
was- Identified by the State Department
as a political officer) and several other
embassy staff, members, Mr. Wolf pro-
vided home addresses?and*unlisted tele-
phone numbers as well as descriptions of
their cars and license-plate numbers.;;:.;
According to police investigators, itap-
pears that three men opened fire- on Mr.
Kinsman's home in the Kingston suburb
of Cherry Gardens at 2:30 A.M ;The. po-
lice said the bullets,.: from' :45-caliber
weapons, appeared to have been fired
from a -submachine gun at a distance of
100 feet. Twenty bullets hit- the house's
concrete walls and two went through the
open windows of a child's bedroom. .
Anne Williams, the family's maid, said
the bedroom belonged to the Kinsmans'
12-year-old daughter but that Mrs_ Kins-
man and her- three children were- away.
Mrs. Williams said-that Mr. ,Kinsman
was alone in the house and that she was
asleep in the servants' quarters. She said
she heard a noise during the night but did
not realize the house had been attacked
until the neighbors-pointed out the bullet
holes.
Mr. Kinsman_ who could not be
reached for-comment. at)Darentlvdid not
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