'DESTABILIZING' JAMAICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160064-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: July 28, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHOGTON POST
28 JULY 1980
based "Covert- Action Information Bulletin," self- seems to have lost control last spring when his
held a press conference in. Jamaica; to identify 15k party's executive council evidently ignored his coun-
Americans (by name, address, car license and so on) sel and demanded that he reject the terms on which
as CIA; agents participating ;in a "destabilization" the International Monetary, Fund was offering a
campaign: Two ; days later, the, home.-of the man . drowning Jamaica a last life preserver.,
named as'. the C
. station chief'. was bombed and Jamaica is to be sure a democratic country, and a
shot up and a few days after thatarmed menfired on., campaign is seating up now for elections expected by.-
guards outside the home of a second man named. the f all. 'It is in the context of that campaign, in
Families of 'at ,least six of the 15 subsequentlyde which-the opposition has made much of _Mr. Nlanley's
parted Jamaica Cuban connection, that the government has sow'
you may say,; it's ugly and dangerous and all, legations of the opposition's ties to the CIA. A note on
that but it's just the latest actin an anti-American set that Cuban.' connection: last month the Jamaican
piece in'which..-a few... despicable Americans; Soviet- manager of a',Leichtenstein-registered-company sus- .
bloc (in this case, Cuban) intelligence operatives and petted of being a Cuban front was. found to have im-
assorted gunslingers take familiar roles Legislation ported 200,000 prohibited shotgun cartridges without
to cope ;with. the. American participation is currently a permit The public prosecutor ordered him. not to
under intense study in Washington. But theres some-.-. leave the country. Emigration officials then found
thing~else The island's single.and state-run television him about to take off for Havana, in a . plane: char=
station. broadcast the full details, including; photos: tered by, the Cuban ambassador; with "Ir. NIanley's
.and phone numbersof the ',CIA-agents'-,identified minister of, national security:,. The minister - subse
by' Louis Wolf: Twice Youth groups of :Prime Minis-. quentlyexplained that he was on sick leave and had
tsr,ilIichael Nlanley's party have been distributing the gotten on the ambassador's plane. because the sched
Wolf material on' handbills. Thus has NIr. Manley -ac-- -uled.flight was grounded and he. didn't even know,
., tively supported Mr.,Wolf's action the other fellow was aboard.
E.It is necessary to back off,a;bit and try to explain On the exchange of destabilization. charges, it is
bow_Mr Manley, respected as-ademocratic socialist.. hard :to.,be. sure. Some Jamaicans do believe that:
when he came to office-in 1972,'has led his formerly Cubans, with their local- supporters (witting and
orderly and.hard working country to acondition of unwitting), are in a position to create, the chaos
epidemie;violence,: economic' catastrophe and politi- that" would -let Mr. ' Manley: declare ,.a, state ,-.of
cal'chaos The more support he has received from the emergency and. suspend elections-Mr. -Manley de
United States, by the wayhe has been 4. favorite. of:~ nies any. such intent. What is more certain is that the'.
the Carter administration in rhetoric and in aidthe,,'Cubans have established a position in. Kingston that.
.more defiant his attitude- toward Washington has be-' helps them throughout the English speaking Carib
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4 ,Some in-Jamaica think i1~r Manley alwayshad it m' To credit charges that the CIA is trying to '`'destabi-'
shim to move, erratically, to the left Others suspect; hze Jamaica :however, you ,have to. believe that
that. in the turbulence of:the last eight years,, a core.- Jimmy Carter and his Caribbean point man, `Andrew
of:.local Marxists :working closely with Cubans has, Young; are behind such a campaign, We don't believe
-'shrewdly exploited his innocence and good will. Left-,' it We. think that Jamaica ? has never had a greater.
3sts- in the -journalistic; corps, for instance,. have cap- need for fair and free elections:
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N JULY 2,Louis Wolf, editorof the Washington- Lured the government-owned media. Mr. Manley him-.
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