JAGAN'S BOOK TELLS HOW CIA SUBVERTED GUYANA
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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400180003-9
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Document Creation Date:
November 11, 2016
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December 17, 1998
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3
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Publication Date:
March 7, 1967
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DR. CIIEDDI JAGAN, former national, informed us that'
Prime Minister of British Guiana, Jagan's revelations of CIA in
now 'named Guayana, gives a trigue. "are stronger than any-
detailed account of -the Central thing yet disclosed."
,Intelligence Agency's role in top- Allen was referring to the
pling his government in a book recently exposed involvement of
he has written, "The West on the CIA and the State, County
Trial: My Fight for Guyana's and Municipal Workers union in'
Freedom." Tormenting general strikes'
The book is being published against Jagan's government.
next month . by International Although Jagan was deposed
Publishers, who point out that in 1964, he still heads the larg-
t Jagan "is in a unique position to. est political party in Guyana.
explain the :political .:events of The book, illustrated with 23
his country and to describq the photographs, tells of Jagan's life
pressure from the United States , as the son of indentured work-
and England to keep Guyana in ers imported from India to work
their 'orbit,' and prevent 'an- on a sugar plantation, and of the`
other Cuba.' " struggles of Guyana's people for
James S. Allen, head of Inter- independence.
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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000400180003-9
March 7, 1967