1,000 U.S. PARATROOPERS LEAVE GRENADA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000402700015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 13, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
13 December 1983
1, 000 U.S. Paratroopers Leave C:renada
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 - About
1,000 Paratroopers of the 82d Airborne
Division, the last United States combat
forces to have fought in the invasion of
Grenada, were flown off the Caribbean
island today, a Defense Department
spokesman said.
Left behind was a force of 1,200 sup..
port troops,
that will from dothe MA
wn to
about 300 by the end of the week, the
spokesman said. No date has been set
for their withdrawal. )
About half of those remaining behind
are military policemen. Tha.others are
medics, civic action specialists, intelli,
gence specialists, a few air coutrnilers,
and supply, maintenance, and adminis-
trative personnel, the spokesman said.
In addition, an Army training team
of 100 soldiers has begun working with
troops from Grenada and other Carib-
bean island nations, and four Coast
Guard ships have relieved the Navy of
patrolling offshore, be said.
The paratroopers and support sol-
diers were among the 7;000 Army
Rangers, marines, sailors,'and airmen
who took part in the invasion of Gre-
nada, which began Oct. 25. The Reagan
Administration said the invasion was
necessary to rescue United States stu-
dents on the island and to wipe out what
the Administration said was a Soviet
t and Cuban base for subversion.
The Air lForce's air traffic control-
lers will Continue to guide Unitas
ed
11
States aircraft in and out of Grenada
the remainder of the support force is
withdrawn, the spokesman said. A
handful will then stay on to control air-
creft that in supplies to the stay-
The military training team of 100 sol-
diers is in addition to the 300 members
of the stay-behind. unit. The team will
train troops of Grenada and other
Caribbean nations in Grenada and per-
ham other islands, the :spokesman
The team is similar to those sent
all over the world to teach basic mill-
taryakills.
he four Coast Guard ships have re-
leased Navy ships for duty elsewhere.
The Coast Guard, in addition to provid-
ing maritime safety, will also be on the
lookout for Cuban or other subversive
movements back into Grenada, the
spokesman said.
The Administration, in an attempt to
By RICHARD HALLORAN I head off a Congressional resolution in-
that all combat troops would be out of
Grenada before Christmas. That act
requires Congressional approval for a
stay of longer than 00 days.
The Defense said that the company of United military policemen in Grenada would
help local authorities keep order and
train the Grenadian police force. The
United States soldiers have been given
authority to arrest Grenadian law.
mbrps Or those thought to be a threat
Back up for Soldiers
e the military
trained
law enforcem techniques similar
to those of civilian police, they can also
fight as infantry, thus providing a
backup for the soldiers of the Carib-
and a mod-
bean the Cubans.
est t to
The civic action group, which, like
the 82d Airborne, is from Fort Bragg,
N.C., has been helping resettle about
1,400 refugees, working to water
lies restarted, and helps g to re-
r the mental hospital that was inad-
vertently bombed by Navy planes dur-
ing the fighting.
Theo intelligence spedalists the
spokesman said, would help local au-
tl oo rri gather and analyze informs
military value.,He gave no de.
tails, but . that. p ably meant
watching for.an effort by Cubans to re-
pin influence on the island;
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