COUP PLOTTERS IN SURINAME

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President Reagan said yesterday
serious talks are under way again to
lay the groundwork for a U.S.-Soviet
summit in the United States later
this year.
Mr. Reagan said that in his recent
letter to Soviet leader Mikhail Gor-
bachev he agreed to the general sec-
retary's suggestion of a series of
preliminary meetings that could
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between the two leaders.
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Coup plotters claim
ties to senators, Dutch
By James Morrison
T"k W'.SNINOTON TIMES
American mercenaries arrested
in a plot to overthrow the leftist mili-
tary government of Suriname claim
they were promised $500 million by
Dutch financiers and supported by
several unidentified U.S. senators
and the Dutch government, federal
investigators said yesterday.
In Suriname, the official Sur-
iname News Agency quoted the
country's leader, Col. Desi Bouterse,
as saying attacks on two military
posts last week were part of a failed
invasion plan and that 12 troops cap-
tured in the raids were still being
held hostage.
SNA said Col. Bouterse told a
meeting of the ruling 25 of February
Party Monday two military posts in
the eastern Marowijne district were
attacked on July 21, the date of the
planned invasion that was to center
on Zanderij international airport, 29
miles from the capital. The govern-
ment said Ronny Brunsjwick, 25, a
former bodyguard of Col. Bouterse,
led those attacks.
The Netherlands officially denied
any involvement in the abortive coup
against its former South American
colony, and a White House source
said the American government had
no role in the caper, which ended
with the arrest of 14 mercenaries in
Louisiana on Monday.
"We strongly deny any support or
apy involvement with these kind of
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groups. Under international law,
countries are not allowed to support
actions aimed at getting rid of other
governments, and we abide by those
laws;' a Dutch Foreign Ministry
spokesman said.
Tommy Lynn Denley, who U.S.
authorities said is the self-pro-
claimed mastermind of the plot.
claims be was supported by Amer-
ican senators, Dutch authorities and
the Ansus Foundation, a corporation
based in Amsterdam, according to J.
Robert Grimes, regional commis-
sioner of the U.S. Customs Service in
New Orleans.
"These claims are all being inves-
tigated" he said.
The SNA report from Suriname
linked the aborted invasion to "se-
cret talks" between former Prime
Minister Wim Udenhout and for-
eigners who were said to have of-
fered the government a $511 million
loan. The amount was later reduced
to $300 million and the date post-
poned to July 28, when a group of
foreigners was to arrive in Suriname
to sign the contract, the report said.
In the Netherlands, the Dutch
news agency ANP said the
Americans arrested in New Orleans
had posed as the "bankers" offering
a loan to Surinam with the aim of
getting into the country.
According to SNA, Mr. Bruns-
jwick, the former Bouterse body-
guard, met in the Netherlands with
former Foreign Minister Andre
Haakmat before returning to
Suriname to begin the guerrilla
attacks earlier this month. Mr.
Haakmat appeared on Dutch televi-
sion over the weekend and said Mr.
Brunswijk's activities were an at-
tempt to create a popular uprising
against Col. Bouterse.
The Customs Service and the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation learned
of the plot in May and infiltrated the
group, Mr. Grimes said.
Mr. Denley and 12 other alleged
mercernaries were arrested as they
planned to board a plane at a small
airport about SO miles northwest of
New Orleans for a flight to Sur-
iname. Another man charged in the
plot was arrested in Lafayette, Ia., a
Customs Service spokeswoman said.
Mr. Denley, 45, of Grenada, Miss.,
is a former Customs officer and Pa-
nama Canal Zone police officer, and
lived with a woman and her son who
were among those arrested.
Authorities confiscated thou-
sands of rounds of ammunition,
American M-16s and Israeli Uzi ma-
chine guns as well as small arms,
communications equipment, sur-
vival supplies, facial camouflage
paint and knives when they searched
one of two vans the suspects used to
transport equipment to their plane,
the spokeswoman said.
"There is still the second van to
search;' she said.
A federal judge yesterday morn-
ing denied bail and ordered the
group held at a federal prison in New
Orleans on charges of violating the
U.S. Neutrality Act, which prohibits
American citizens from trying to
overthrow foreign governments
with which the United States is at
peace. 'D'easury Department spokes-
man in Washington said the group
expected to receive 1.5 billion Dutch
guilders, which he said was equal to
about 5500 million, to kidnap Col.
Bouterse and turn 'the government
over to the Ansus Foundation.
Investigators yesterday still had
no information about the Dutch cor-
poration or the identity of any Amer-
ican politician involved in the plot,
Mr. Grimes said.
He added that investigators also
did not know whether the suspects
were associated with other Amer-
ican-based paramilitary groups.
The plot was outlined by author-
ities at a press conference in New
Orleans.
A wiretap affidavit made public
Monday said Mr. Denley, as pres-
ident of a company named Tango
Lima Delta Inc., showed an under-
cover agent a contract to receive 1.5
billion Dutch guilders in return for
turning over the Surinamese govern-
ment to the Ansus Foundation.
Mr. Denley contended the Dutch
government and several U.S. sen-
ators had approached him about ar-
ranging the coup, according to the
document. The senators were not
named.
The mercenaries, from various
parts of the United States, planned
to join an army of Central American
Indians in the coup attempt, Mr.
Grimes said. He said Mr. Denley
promised the others they would be
mid $1 million each if successful.
The plans called for three combat
teams led by former US. Navy
SEALS and armed with U.S. M-60
and Israeli Uzi machine guns to pull
off the coup, authorities said.
Suriname is one of three small
countries east of Venezuela on the
northern coast of South America.
Formerly called Dutch Guiana, it
won independence from The Neth-
erlands in 1975.
Col. Bouterse took over in a mili-
tary coup in 1980, and the United
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