JAMAICA: ALLEGED RIGHTIST COUP PLOT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06796361
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-02021
• Publication Date: June 25, 1980

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Jamaica: Alleged Rightist Coup Plot
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JAMAICA: Alleged Rightist Coup Plot
Publicity following the arrest
rightist coup plotters will provoke
Minister Manley, but it is unlikely
reelection or to provide a pret
against the moderate opposition.
last Sunday of 27 alleged
some local sympathy for Prime
to improve his poor chances for
�tu measures
Manley apparently has refused to
in exploiting the incident as part of
stabilization" campaign.
join local radicals
an alleged US "de-
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Seaga has compounded local rumors by charging that
the ruling party either fabricated or exaggerated the
conspiracy to justify a state of emergency. These rumors
could have some basis in fact as additional security
measures would increase Manley's leverage against the
opposition.
On the other hand, the largely anti-Manley Army
evidently took the lead in the investigation of an in-
cipient and seemingly foredoomed conspiracy mainly con-
centrated within its own ranks. The accused include
three junior Army officers and 23 noncommissioned officers
led by a virtually unknown political rightist. Whatever
its origins, however, the coup scare is having little
impact on the growing fortunes of an opposition party
strongly favored to defeat Manley this fall.
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