GRENADA: U.S. TAGET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160036-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: July 1, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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"GRENADA. NOBODY'S BACKYARD" -^ While. Washington s agents: do not that. could ever happet to Grenada."'_,
Directed by Ellen Rays.:. identify,themselves as such;; their handi .Those interviewed are anxious to tell
Produced.. b, ,k-- Information:+- _work.is;:easily..observed: Footage, from. North. Americans about''tbe*ir- struggle,
Bulletin past CIA* destabilization efforts in other- about what Prime- Minister- Maurice
"--countries,:kuch..asrGuyana 'in. 1964 and'--.. Bishop- calls,-':" ;continuous
By JOINATHAN BENNE'IT ti Jamaica in 1980 make clear the origins of participation of the people in the. affair-of
Will a..~. U.S.-backed destabilizztion the reactionary violence;. the strikes and the country:-'.They speak proudly of what'.
campaign- succeed in ousting Grenada 's! : ; the media campaigns they-have accomplished `and - of ;. the=
,2-year-old Popular Revolutionary. vernDirector.-Ellen Ray hews'close to the 'fraternal intemationalist*'ties -they,` are
. ment? Or will the 120,000 citizens of there objective documentary style;. but there is'. '.building with. Cuba; Nicaragua "and:-the--.
ny-Eastera Caribbean. island-rtur back; no. mistaking the message;of: Grenada: revolutionary forces= iaa El Salvador
..The.. makers of-. "Grenada Nobody's ..- Philip;Agee'_reminds: the viewers: 'The . on theline_ theU.S rgovernment.is trying
Bac'+cyard hove no crystal ball, so the CIA'is not all powerful or all knowing-it to destroy a revolution;' and it is counting-?
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Failures an(t few. surresses- - on keeping riost Americans indifferent to'
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clearly drawn..-The' films producer-the..- -but it can do a lot of damage-and cause a the. fate- of a tiny;' out-of-the-way island;
...Washington-based. CovertActiars.Infor- - ? Iot of human suffering ": so the ?. destabilization ' program can
mation. Bulletin--has been watching the . It.is easyto.see why Grenada is one of succeed This film is a smalt but
CIA in action for a long time,, ..and the the latest targets iii-Washington's sights significant step to prevent the U.S:
:documentary;;leaves no -.. doubt` that. :. Grenadians, are- interviewed on the job' from doing so
-Grenada is, the. latest.victinr of Wash _ - and- in the'street, ..and they tell. of the " ._ .
,ton-based destabilization -- "Green feasts," the old. regime's brutal Grenada : Nobody sBackyard will
tactics in action is Grenada: The viewer s - of freedom since the revolution. A trade.- ' New York City June 26 and 27 at 8 pm:
actually witnesses - the work'; of ,the= union leader explains his rejection of the For more-in Formation call: 212-989-6820.
assassination-squads; the smears of the-,;-.*-'- "training" efforts:r of the CIA-fiont , % To arrange for rental 6r..-purchase-6f the
rnedicah . supplies.. ands the : subversive- Development., A soldier tells the inter 1426 Florida Ave: N ^W. Washington,
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