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CLAIMED INFORMATION WHICH IMPLICATED THE GOG IN WIDESPREAD TECHNICAL SURVEILLANCE OF PARTY ACTIVISTS SOME WPA ACTIVISTS SUSPECTED THAT THE USG HAD SUBSIDIZED THE PURCHASE OF THIS SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT RODNEY REPORTED 4 S EMBOFF COUNTERED THAT THE USG HAD NOT BEEN INVOLVED IN ANY WAY IN THE EQUIPMENT PURCHASE THE EMBASSY HAD ALSO RECEIVED REPORTS OF THE EXISTENCE OF THIS EQUIPMENT AND HAD HEARD ALLEGATIONS THAT THE USG HAD FUNDED THE PURCHASE EMBOFF SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 GEORGE 02004 01 OF 02 0518172 EXPRESSED REGRET THAT ANYONE WOULD FALL FOR SUCH MISINFORMATION WHEN IN FACT THE USG HAD NOT CONSIDERED AND WOULD NOT CONSIDER FURNISHING TECHNICAL SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT TO GUYANA FOR POSSIBLE USE IN HE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS MOREOVER THE USG HAD NOT PROVIDED THE GOG WITH MILITARY EQUIPMENT RODNEY SAID THAT HE WAS WILLING TO ACCEPT WORD ON THE MATTER HOWEVER WHETHER THE EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN FURNISHED OR NOT WAS OF LITTLE IMPORT WHEN USAID ASSISTANCE TO GUYANA ENABLED THE GOG TO SHIFT RESOURCES FROM THE SOCIAL SECTOR TO INTERNAL SECURITY RODNEY NOTED 5 S EMBOFF POINTED OUT THAT GOVERNMENTS SELDOM STINTED ON EXPENDITURES WHICH THEY CONSIDERED NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES IN POWER WHETHER THE GOG OBTAINED FOREIGN ASSISTANCE OR NOT MONEY WOULD LIKELY HAVE BEEN SPENT ON THE SURVEILLANCE ITEMS AT ANY RATE USAID PROGRAMS WERE AIMED AT THE POOREST OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THEIR OBJECTIVES WERE TO EASE THE CONDITIONS OF THE POOREST USUALLY RURAL SECTOR WHICH HAD BEEN HISTORICALLY IGNORED IN EVERY SUCH COUNTRY THERE WAS ONE OR MORE ASPIRING POLITICAL GROUPS WHICH MADE THE SAME ARGUMENTAS HE RODNEY IF THE USG WERE TO ACCEPT THAT ARGUMENT AS VALID IT WOULD BE FORCED TO CLOSE DOWN AID PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE 6 S RODNEY THEN MOVED THE SOUBJECT TO RECENT STATEMENTS OF US POLICY IN THE CARIBBEAN HE NOTED THAT USG SPOKESMAN UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No ll-201345063 Doc No 006511169 Date 03 14 2018 0 6 5 11 1 6 US Department of State Case No Doc No C06511169 Date 03 14 2018 p HAD HEAPED PRAISE ON THE GOVERNMENT OF BARBODOS FOR ITS RESPONSIBLE FISCAL POLICY DEMOCRATIC PROCEDURES AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE SAME TIME THE PRG OF GRENADA HAD BEEN LAMBASTED FOR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FAILURE TO HOLD ELECTIONS AMONG OTHER THINGS HE DID NOT TAKE ISSUE WITH THOSE STATEMENTS BUT WONDERED WHERE GUYANA FIT IN BETWEEN BARBADOS AND BRENADA GUYANA DID NOT HOLD HONEST ELECTIONS GUYANA VIOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS AND GUYANA WAS FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE BUT NO STATEMENTS HAD BEEN FORTHCOMING FROM SECRET SECRET PAGE 04 GEORGE 02004' 01 OF 02 0518172 US OFFICIALS COMPARING GUYANA TO GRENADA WHERE THEN DID GUYANA FIT GUYANA WAS AN ANOMALY HE CONCLUDED 7 S RODNEY ALSO WANTED TO KNOW WHY THE IMF HAD PLACED SUCH STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS ON JAMAICA BUT HAD BEEN SO WITH AFTER ALL SAY WHAT YOU WOULD ABOUT PRIME MICHAEL MANLEY JAMAICA WAS STILL A PRACTICING DEMOCRACY EMBOFF POINTED OUT THAT GUYANA HAD DONE A MUCH BETTER JOB MEETING IMF GUIDELINES THAN HAD JAMAICA BESIDES THE DECISION TO DROP THE IMF WAS ONE THAT HAD LONG BEEN SOUGHT SECRET SECRET PAGE 01 GEORGE 02004 02 OF 02 0518552 ACTION ARA-15 CIAE-OO PM-O5 NSC-05 SP-02 SS-15 IDA-11 EB-OB AID-07 ACDA-12 OMB-01 I112 051 9242 50 2918142 APR 80 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2355 INFO AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN AMEMBASSY KINGSTON AMEMBASSY PARAMARIBO AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN 1I SECTION 2 OF 2 GEORGETOWN 2004 BY LEFTIST MEMBERS OF THE PNP NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE UNCLASSIFIED US Department Of State Case No Doc No C06511169 Date 03 14l2018 CO 6 5 1 6 US Department of State Case No- M-2013-15063 Doc No 306511169 Date 03 14 2018 REGARDLESS OF THE STRINGENCY OF THE IMF GUIDELINES 8 S THE SUBJECT OF TERRORISM CAME UP WHEN EMBOFF REMINDED RODNEY THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF IT HAD BEEN MENTIONED AT THEIR LAST MEETING RODNEY REITERATED THAT THE WPA HAD THE CAPABILITY AND THE WILL TO DEFEND ITSELF SHOULD THE GOG ELIMINATE A WPA LEADER HE ADDED THAT TIF THE GOG OFFICIAL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACT WAS 80 WELL PROTECTED THAT THE WPA COULD NOT RETALIATE AGAINST HIM THE VICTIOM MIGHT BE A RANDOMLY SELECTED POLICEMAN WHO REALLY HAD NO PART IN THE ISSUE EMBOFF OBSERVED THAT OPPOSITION PARTIES WHO WERE HARD- PRESSED AND FRUSTRATED BY GOVERNMENT REPRESSION OFTERN TURNED TO EASY TARGETS LIKETHE CONVENIENT BEAT COP OR A FOREIGN DIPLOMAT NEITHER OF WHOM HAD A STAKE IN THE CONFRONTATION 9 S RODNEY WAS ASKED WHETHER HE FORESAW THE POSSIBILITY OF TERRORISM DIRECTED AT FOREIGN HE REPLIED THAT HE FORESAW NO SHORT-TERM THREAT BECAUSE SUCH BEHAVIOR WAS ALIEN TO THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF GUYANESE THE MASSES WOULD NOT SECRET SECRET PAGE 02 GEORGE 02004 02 OF 02 0518552 TAKE KINDLY TTO THE DEATH OF INNOCENT VICTIMS SUCH TACTICS WOULD BE 10 8 COMMENT DESPITE POINTING UP GUYANESE DISTASTE FOR TERRORISM DIRECTED AT INNOCENT VICTIMS RODNEY ADDRESSED HIMSELF ONLY TO THE SHORT-TERM PROSPECTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND WOULD NOT COMMENT ON THE PROSPECTS THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A NOT SO SUBTLE PLOY TO GIVE US POLICY MAKERS PAUSE IN ALLOCATING FUTURE ASSISTANCE TO GUYANA FAVORABLE TO THE US COMMENT ABOUT THE IRANIAN HOSTAGE SITUATION AND THE NECESSITY AS HE SAW IT FOR MAINTAINING A STABLE ATMOSPHER FOR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS SUGGESTED THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE MUCH STOMACH FOR TERRORISM DIRECTED AT DIPLOMATS ON THE OTHER HAND HE MAY HAVE ONLY BEEN SUGGESTING THAT HE COULD NOT SPEAK FOR THE TENDENCIES OF THE MORE RADICAL WPA MEMBERS 11 8 THE UPCOMING ARSON TRIALS OF DR OMAWALE AKA DR WALTER GREEN DR RUPERT ROOPNARINE AND HIMSELF RODNEY WERE COMENTED ON BRIEFLY RODNEY AVERRED THAT WHETHER THE THREE OF THEM WERE GUILTY OF BURNING THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUILDING OR NOT GOVERNMENT EVIDENCE WAS SO SHODDY THAT IT COULD NOT CONVICT ANYONE IN A FAIR TRIAL UNFORTUNATELY SOME WITNESSES WERE LYING WHICH COMPLICATED MATTERS BUT IN SPITE OF THIS GOG EFFORTS TO GET AROUND LEGALITIES WOULD MAKE THE PROCEDURE NULL AND VOID ON THE DATE OF THE TRIAL PROMINENT LAWYERS FROM THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN WOULD BE IN ATTENDANCE AND WOULD MAKE AN ISSUE OF THE PROCEDURE IF IT DID NOT CONFORM TO ACCEPTED LEGAL PRACTICE 12 S ON THE SUBJECT OF CUBA RODNEY WAS RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No DOC NO 306511169 Date 03 14 2018 CO 65 1 6 US Department of State Case No Doc No 006511169 Date 03 14 2018 BUT MADE A HALF-HEARTED EFFORT TO DEFEND THE CUBAN ECONOMIC MODEL HE DID NOT THINK THAT THE CUBAN MODEL HAD NECESSARILY SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 GEORGE 02004 02 OF 02 0518552 NOT YET AT LEAST HE COMPARED THE INVASION OF THE PERUVIAN- EMBASSY TO THE MASS MIGRATION OF PUERTO RICANS PRECISELY AT THE TIME WHEN PUERTO RICO WAS ACCOMPLISHING ITS SO-CALLED ECONOMIC MIRACLE EMBOFF POINTED OUT THAT THE CASES WERE NOT SIMILAR THE CUBAN ECONOMY HAD CLEARLY FAILED DESPITE A GENERATION OF SACRIFICE AND SOVIET SUBSIDIZATION OF ABOUT 25 PERCENT OF GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT RODNEY TRIED TO MAINTAIN HIS POSITION BY SAYING THAT THE CUBAN REFUGEE PROBLEM WAS NOT SO IMPORTANT AS WHETHER CUBA COULD MANAGE TO FREE ITSELF OF THE SOVIET YOKE 13 S RODNEY DESCRIBED THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BISHOP REGIME IN GRENADA AS QUITE GOOD- HE POINTED TO THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WARM RECEPTION THE PRG GAVE WPA REPRESENTATIVES TO THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WHILE GOG REPRESENTATIVES WERE LARGELY IGNORED 14 S AS TO SURINAME RODNEY DID NOT APPEAR TO BE WELL INFORMED AS TO THE PLAYERS HE DESCRIBED THE REASONS FOR THE COUP AS THE WPA HAD HAD LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ROBIN RAVALES AND THE ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO THE NMC WHOSE NAME HE COULD NOT REMEMBER EDWARD BRUMA WHOSE NAME HE PRONOUNCED INCORRECTLY WAS SUSPECTED OF MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE APART FROM THE FACT THAT BRUMA WAS FRIENDLY WITH BURNHAM THE NET IMPRESSION WAS THAT RODNEY HAD NOT FOCUSED ON SURINAME HE DID TAKE THE TIME HOWEVER TO DESCRIBE THE DUTCH AS MERELY AN ACT WHICH ENRICHED ABOUT SIX LEADING SURINAMESE FAMILIES UNDER THE AARON ADMINISTRATION AS FAR AS DEVELOPMENT WAS CONCERNED RODNEY CLAIMED THE AID PACKAGE DID NOT HELP SURINAME IN THE LEAST ROBERTS SECRET UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No M-2013-15063 Doc No 006511169 Date 03 14 2018 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu