WILSON DODGES QUERY ON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200240094-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: April 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Query on CIA
Wilson Dodges
LONDON,' April 18-Prime Spending unarged
1Vtinister 'ilson sidestepped The Sunday Times article
s that had
questions today about the U.S. alleg d upwardsheof CI$700 000
Central Intelligence Agency's over a five-year period to abet
role in bringing down the left- a union uprising which cul-
minated in a '79-day general
wing Jagan regime in British
Guiana before independence. strike in According to the paper, the
He told Parliament the pres- funds flowed through the Pub-
ent Labor government, which lie Services of International of
took office in October of 1964, , London and the U.S. Feder-
was not responsible for the Mation S tate, Bounty and
colony in 1963. In that year is an internationa. The PSI
l organ-
the CIA allegedly gave back ization representing 3.5 mil-
Ing to a general strike that liongovernment workers in
crippled the regime of Prime some 80 countries.
In a statement today, PSI
Minister Cheddi Jagan.? ,denied it had done anything
"So far as British adminis improper in sending money to
tered territories now are con- an affiliated union on strike in.
cerned," he said, `.'I know of British Guiana. But the state-
no activities of this kind, andl en tht the 'S
all - fate nntAmer a, the Fed
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can be pretty sure if there eration of State, County and
were any I should." Municipal Employes, had been
Article Unchallenged a past beneficiary of CIA larg-
The effect was to leave un-. else.
On all sides, there is agree-
16 1halle London S Su u a stnday in April Tment that the general strike
Times
which told of how the CIA al- led Britain to change the
Iit I tanTter
legedly poured money into . y's voting, laws
British Guiana, using British
and American unions as that favored the anti-Jagan
"fronts." parties in a 1964 election.
Left-wing Laborites urged Quintin Hogg,? - , a Tory
an investigation of the spokesman, said today "are
charges, but Wilson replied there not many foreign-origin-
since that the country-independent
May, 1966 as Guyana- 9 ating bodies seeking to sub-
was self-governing and Britain 1, vert law and order in British-
had no responsibility. e administered territories? Why
It is thought unlikely that f is it only those coming from
Guyana's present Prime Minis- i the United States which excite
ter, Forbes Burnham, would 1 members opposite?"
approve an investigation since I Wilson replied that wherev-
the ensuing controversy would er such activities occurred he
benefit his adversary, Jagan. 1 was sure he had the backing
The exchange in the House + of Parliament in countering
of Commons was.the first sig- : them-adding tartly that he
nificant backlash in Britain ~ had the backing of half the
arising from disclosures that house when his government
the CIA had contributed to tried to deal with subversion
private organizations. in Rhodesia.
It was noted that no Tory
rose to deny allegations made
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before Wilson's election in Oc-
tober, 1964.