POSSIBLE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST MICHAEL MANLEY AND DUDLEY THOMPSON BY WORKER'S PARTY OF JAMAICA ACTIVISTS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06769163
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2019
• Case Number: F-2017-01652
• Publication Date: September 24, 1982

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COUNTRY: JAMAICA
SUBJECT: POSSIBLE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST MICHAEL MANLEY
AND DUDLEY THOMPSON BY WORKER'S PARTY OF JAMAICA
ACTIVISTS
1. L PRESIDENT OF THE
LEFTIST ORWIITA.LED THE PAN AFRICAN SECRETARIAT, TREVOR
((lUNROE)), GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST WORKER'S PARTY
OF JAMAICA IWPJ1, IS PLANNING TO HAVE MICHAEL ((MANLEY)),
PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY IPNPI, AND DUDLEY
IITHOMPSONII, PNP CHAIRMAN, ASSASSINATED. HE PLANS TO
ORCHESTRATE THE KILLINGS IN SUCH A MANNER THAT IT WILL APPEAR
THE RULING JAMAICA LABOR PARTY IJLPI WAS RESPONSIBLE. MUNROE
THEN HOPES THAT PNP SUPPORTERS WILL BE SO OUTRAGED THAT THEY
WILL ASSASSINATE PRIME MINISTER, AND JLP LEADER, EDWARD IISEAGAII
IN RETALIATION.J
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INFORMANT GAVE NO DATES OR SPECIFICS ABOUT THE PLANNED
ASSASSINATIONS.)
2. [ ALSO BELIEVED THAT PNP GENERAL SECRETARY
O.K. �DUNCANII AND FORMER PNP MINISTER OF FINANCE HUGH
((SMALL)) WERE INVOLVED IN THE PLAN TO ASSASSINATE MANLEY
AND THOMPSON. ---1 COMMENT: HE DID NOT PROVIDE ANY
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS BELIEF.) I COMMENT: NCAN
AND MANLEY HAVE PUBLICLY BEEN AT ODDS LATELY, Pr FOR
PERSONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL REASONS, AND DUNCAN ANu .1UNROE HAVE BEEN
KNOWN TO CONSPIRE WHEN IT SUITED THEIR MUTUAL BUSINESS. HOWEVER,
THERE HAVE BEEN NO PREVIOUS INDICATIONS THAT SMALL WOULD INVOLVE
HIMSELF IN SUCH ACTIVITIES.)
3. COMMENT: WHILE WE HAVE RECEIVED NO OTHER
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN ASSASSINATION
PLOT, WE HAVE BEEN OBTAINING INCREASING INDICATIONS THAT THE
WPJ IS BECOMING MORE AGGRESSIVE IN ITS ACTIVITIES AND MORE
MILITANT AND PRO-VIOLENCE IN ITS STATFMnsac
IANOTHER FACTOR TO
CONSIDER IS THAT 180 JAMAICAN STUDENTS RECENTLY RETURNED
FROM STUDYING IN CUBA. TRAINING OF SOME OF THESE STUDENTS
UNDOUBTEDLY INCLUDED GUERRILLA WARFARE AND TERRORIST
TACTICS. SINCE THESE STUDENTS HAD TO BE SPONSORED ORIGINALLY
BY A RECOGNIZED LEFTIST GROUP IN ORDER TO BE ACCEPTED FOR
THE CUBAN TRAINING, IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE STUDENTS HAVE
RETURNED TO THESE GROUPS READY TO USE WHATEVER TRAINING
NET RECEIVED IN CUBA. THEREFORE, THE LEFTIST GROUPS,
INCLUDING THE WPJ, HAVE RECENTLY TRAINED AND INDOCTRINATED
riAMPONER AT THEIR DISPOSAL FOR AN ACTION SUCH AS AN
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.)
4. COMMENT: MUNROE'S LOGIC IN THIS ASSASSINATION
SCENARIO MAY ALSO BE SOMEWHAT ASKEW. HE IS ASSUMING THAT THE
DEATHS OF MANLEY AND THOMPSON MOULD BE BLAMED ON THE JLP.
GIVEN O.K. DUNCAN'S PUBLIC FEUD WITH MANLEY, INCLUDING AT LEAST
ONE SHOUTING INCIDENT OVER DUNCAN'S WELL-PUBLICIZED AFFAIR
WITH MANLEY'S WIFE. IT WOULD SEEM JUST AS LOGICAL TO ASSUME -
THAT THE ASSASSINATION OF MANLEY, AT LEAST, COULD BE LAID
RIGHT AT DUNCAN'S DOOR AS PROOF OF HOW SERIOUS THE IN-FIGHTING
WITHIN THE PNP HAD BECOME. THIS WOULD LEAVE THE JLP FIRMLY
/iv CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE HPJ STILL VERY MUCH ON
THE SIDELINES.)
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