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300 9909L-9Loz-w 9823 91918 40 luewuedea 'S'n c1312 9 I I II 9 3 6 5 1 1 1 5 US Department of State Case No 5063 Doc No 006511155 Date 03 14 2018 I1 UNIVERSITY 3 UNDOUBTEDLY MORE WORRYING FOR THE REGIME OF PRIME MINISTER BURNHAM HAS BEEN THE REACTION TO DEATH REGISTERED IN THE CARIBBEAN ON JUNE 16 AND JUNE 17 THE WORKING ALLIANCE WPA OF WHICH RODNEY WAS A LEADER ISSUED BULLETINS CONTAINING MESSAGES FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES EXPRESSING OUTRAGE AND SYMPATHY OVER THE DEATH OF RODNEY THE WPA PRINTED THE TEXT OF A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM THE PRIME MINISTER OF GRENADA MAURICE BISHOP WHICH STATED IN PART RODNEY WAS A CARIBBEAN REVOLUTIONARY OF THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLES WHO CONSISTENTLY DEFENDED THE INTERESTS OF THE POOR AND EXPLOITED PEOPLE OF GUYANA THE CARIBBEAN AND THE WORLD HAVING REGARD TO THE RECENT HISTORY OF STEPPED UP VIOLENCE AGAINST POLITICAL OPPOSITION IN GUYANA WE SEE THIS ASSASSINATION AS SIGNIFYING A DANGEROUS REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IF THE BEST OF OUR CARIBBEAN SONS CAN BE CUT DOWN IN SUCH A MANNER THIS CAN USHER IN A NEW SINISTER PHASE OF MAFIA AND CIA-TYPE APPROACH TO POLITICS BY REMOVING VIOLENTLY THE PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP OF THE ENTIRE CARIBBEAN ONLY IMPERIALISM AND REACTION CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS MURDER WHICH WE UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 GEORGE 02776 01 OF 02 1818422 VIEW AS AN ACT DESIGNED TO DESTABILIZE AND INITIMIDATE ALL PROGRESSIVE ANTI-IMPERIALIST AND REVOLUTIONARY FORCES IN THE ANXIOUSLY LOOK FORWARD TO THE EARLIEST BRINGING TO JUSTICE OF THOSE FOR THIS MONSTROUS AND HEINOUS STATEMENT ALSO DECLARED JUNE 16 1980 SOWETO DAY AS A DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING FOR WALTER RODNEY HAD BEEN ESPECIALLY COMMITTED TO THE STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN 4 THE SAME WPA RELEASE ALSO CONTAINED THE TEXT OF A STATEMENT MADE BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAMIACA MICHAEL MANLEY AND OTHER JAMAICAN POLITICAL FIGURES MANELY DESCIRBED RODNEY AS AND AND THAT THOSE WHO VALUE SERIOUS POLITICAL PURSUIT AND THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHT OF DISSENT MUST BE OUTRAGED BY AND UTTERLY CONDEMN THIS BARBARIC A STATEMENT FROM PERNELL CHARLES DEPUTY LEADER OF THE JAMAICA LABOUR PARTY JLP WHICH HAD WHEN IN POWER IN 1968 EXPELLED RODNEY FROM JAMAICA SAID THAT RODNEY WAS A SCHOLAR OF THE HIGHEST AND ACCORDING TO THE WPA PERNELL ALSO SAID THAT IF IN FACT RULING NATIONAL CONGRESS PNC PARTY WERE BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THE ADMINISTRATION OF RPIME MINISTER FORBES BURNHAIVI SHOULD BE ROUNDLY UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No Doc No 306511155 Date 03 14 2018 6 5 5 US Department of State Case No Doc No 006511155 Date 03 14 2018 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 GEORGE 02776 02 OF 02 1818472 ACTION ARA-15 INFO OCT-01 AF-10 EUR-12 NSC-05 0 NSAE-OO ICAE-DO DOT-02 SYE-OO FBIE-OO 084 077691 1819152 50 1818022 JUN 80 FM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2752 INFO AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN AMEMBASSY KINGSTON AMEMBASSY PARAMARIBO AMEMBASSY LONDON AMEMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN AMEMBASSY SALISBURY UNCLAS SECTION 02 OF 02 GEORGETOWN 2776 5 THE WPA ALSO RELEASED THE TEXT OF A STATEMENT IS- SUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT AFRICAN COUNTRY OF ZIMBABWE PRAISING THE BRILLIANCE OF SCHOLARSHIP AND HIS APPLICATION OF AND FANONISM TO A SPECIFIC AFRICAN STIAUTION IN A WAY NEVER BEFORE BY ANY AFRICAN RODNEY HAD MET WITH ZIMBABWEAN PRIME MINISTER MUGABE ON MAY 17 AND HAD ACCORDING TO THIS RELEASE BEEN PLANNING TO WRITE A HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE THE ZANU WILL BE REPRESENTED AT FUNERAL BY 80 MENDAZA 6 THE WPA REPRODUCED CABLES RECEIVED FROM A VARIETY OF ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN EUROPE AND IN THE UNITED STATES CONDEMNING THE OF DR RODNEY THE COMMUNICATION UNION OF TRINIDAD URGED THE WPA TO CONTINUE BRAVE AGAINST THE OF 7 A WPA RELEASE TITLED ASSASSINATION UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 GEORGE 02776 02 OF 02 1818472 A PLOT OF THE PNC JUNE 17 SAID OF THE BOMB WHICH KILLED RODNEY WAS A CAREFULLY SIGNED BOMB A BOMB PROBABLY DESIGNED WITH THE AED OF UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No M-2013-15068 DOC NO 006511155 Date 03 14 2018 6 5 1 15 US Department of State Case No Doc No C06511155 Date 03 14 2018 I LIKE THE THE RELASE GOES ON TO ALLEGE THAT RODNEY WAS MURDERED BY THE PNC AND THAT GUYANA DEFENSE FORCE GDF CHIEF OF STAFF NORMAN MCLEAN WAS INVOLVED THE RELEASE ALSO REFERRED TO THE CALL FOR AMERICAN AND BRITISH EXPERTS TO COME TO GUYANA TO AID IN THE INVESTIGATION BY SAYING CAN HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN THE VERDICT OF HIGHLY REACTIONARY POLICE FROCES FROM IMPERIALIST CAPITALS IN A HIGHLY POLITICAL INCIDENT IN WHICH THEY MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED AT AN EARLIER DWYER UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No M-2013-15063 Doc No 006511155 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