CARIBBEAN OPPORTUNITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00757R000100230026-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: November 10, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
NIC-8137-83
10 November 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, National Intelligence Council
THROUGH: National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose Forces
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council, Mr. Meyer
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council, Mr. Waterman
Assistant or General Purpose Forces
SUBJECT: Caribbean Opportunities
The turnaround in Grenada may offer us unprecedented opportunities in
stemming Marxist influences in Latin America and perhaps, by analogy, other
areas of the world. No doubt others, both within CIA and elsewhere, are
already thinking about the propaganda value of secret Soviet and Cuban plans
revealed by captured documents, interrogations, and "repentant" New Jewel
members. Nevertheless, it may be useful to consider some of the following
initiatives:
o Extensive release to the press and publication (both by USIA and
"friendly" foreign journalists) of captured documents revealing the
size and scope of Cuban and Soviet involvement throughout Grenada to
transform the infrastructure and culture of the island. Plans for a
large standing Army, suppression of the church, media and education
controls, routing arms and agents through Grenada, and other activity
inimical to the island's peace and prosperity in order to serve
Moscow's ends should make interesting reading for the citizens of
Jamaica, Suriname, Guyana, and other countries.
o A review of pre-invasion public statements by Bishop, Castro, and the
Soviets on their intentions in Grenada compared with captured
documents (e.g., the commercial purposes of the new airfield vs.
plans for exclusive military use).
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o Public appearances by genuine and reliable New Jewel pentitents to
add the human touch to these revelatio s and dramatize the Soviet and
Cuban involvement as one which held the interests of the Grenadian
populace in low regard.
cc: NI0/LA
NI0/USSR-EE
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SUBJECT: Caribbean Opportunities
NIC/A/NIO/GPF
Distribution:
Orig - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC - Waterman
1 - VC/NIC - Meyer
1 - NIO/GPF
1 - NIO/LA
1 - NIO/USSR-EE
1 - A/NIO/GPF
1 - NIO/GPF Chrono
1 - NIO/GPF File
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