UNDIPLOMATIC RESPONSE TO 'HYSTERICAL' GRENADA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000201090062-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: April 7, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SAN JOSE MERCURY (CA)
7 April 1983
Uncliploma , ticresponse to
`hysterical' Grenada
By Alfonso Chardy
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Grenada's foreign min-
ister made his usual speech Wednesday,
accusing the United States of preparing to
invade his small island nation, but this time
he drew an unusual American response.
Asked by reporters about the accusation,
which was voiced before the Organization of
American States, U.S. Ambassador J. Wil-
liam Middendorf II replied: "Can I use a
diplomatic term? Horseshit."
When a network correspondent protested
that he could not use that term on the air,
Middendorf changed it to "bulifeathers."
Unison Whiteman, the Grenadan official,
had formally charged - as he has publicly
several times - that the U.S. Central Intelli-
gence Agency was plotting the invasion and
that "in recent weeks we have seen clear
signs that this plot is nearing its climax."
He gave no specifics, other than that mer-
cenaries were getting CIA training in Miami
for the invasion, wh!Cli -Fe said would be
launched from a country near Grenada.
"I am not in a position to give you the
specific location, but- we have intelligence
sources on this question, and we know that
training is taking place in Miami," White.
man said at a news conference after his
speech. "I can say that those involved are
largely Nicaraguan and Cuban exiles and
some Grenadans, and also some mercenar-
ies, a motley collection of counterrevolution-
aries sponsored, organized and trained by
the CIA."
Whiteman said he had come to the OAS to
appeal for "diplomatic influence" to thwart
the alleged CIA plot. He said the invasion(
could come "at any minute. It's impending."
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/24: CIA-RDP90-00965R000201090062-5