CIA BASE by Ralph McGehee
mentioning Surinam
111-ciabase 1059.txt
SUBJECT: AGENT, TYPES AGENTS, TRAINING, HANDLING, ETC.
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ENTRY: Netherlands, undefined
Erwin McDonald, a 43-year-old Surinamese/Dutch businessman and former political advisor to Ronnie Brunswijk, head of the rebel “Junglecommando,” was found dead on 10/17 in the Brokopondo DM, south of Suriname capital Paramaribo. Serving under codename of “Commander Paco,” McDonald was described in Paramaribo as the most important contact between the rebels and a plethora of foreign intelligence services including Dutch BVD, MID/KL and the MID/KM, U.S. CIA and DEA, and French DST.
SOURCE: Intelligence Newsletter, Paris, France. 253, 11/28/94 253/Bio
Source code: INT
111-ciabase 4131.txt
SUBJECT: BUDGET, BUDGET AND MECHANISMS
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ENTRY: Between undefined, Casey got 25 to 35% annual budget increases for CIA. Under Casey, CIA initiated more than 50 major covert ops on every continent. By undefined there were some 20 ops in Africa alone. At present there are major covert ops in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Suriname, Mexico, Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Libya, Chad, Lebanon, Seychelles, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Zaire, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, and others.
SOURCE: Covert Action Information Bulletin Magazine, (all issues). New York and Washington, DC. Summer 87 28
Source code: CAIB
111-ciabase 4672.txt
SUBJECT: COMMUNIST THREAT, USE OF, MANUFACTURED OR REAL
DATES: 1982-1985
ENTRY: Suriname, 1982-1985 “Once again the Cuban bogeyman.” NED (National Endowment for Democracy) has been funding orgs in Suriname during 83-85.
SOURCE: Blum, W. (1995). Killing Hope: U.S. Military Interventions Since World War II. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. 279-80
Source code: KH
111-ciabase 4742.txt
SUBJECT: COMMUNIST THREAT, USE OF, MANUFACTURED OR REAL
DATES: 1950-1978
ENTRY: USSR, 1950-1978. When coups in Third World brought regimes friendlier to USSR – from Egypt and Iraq in 50s, to Peru, Syria, and Libya in 60s, to Grenada and Suriname in 70s – USSR role [was] marginal. Only in Southern Yemen in 78 and Ethiopia in mid 70s was USSR role central.
SOURCE: Treverton, G. (1987). Covert Action, The Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers. 203
Source code: CA
111-ciabase 8097.txt
SUBJECT: COVERT A, MAJOR COVERT ACTIONS AND POLICIES
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ENTRY: Between undefined, Casey got 25 to 35% annual budget increases for CIA. Under Casey, CIA initiated more than 50 major covert ops on every continent. By undefined there were some 20 ops in Africa alone. At present there are major covert ops in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Suriname, Mexico, Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Libya, Chad, Lebanon, Seychelles, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Zaire, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, and others.
SOURCE: Covert Action Information Bulletin Magazine, (all issues). New York and Washington, DC. Summer 87 28
Source code: CAIB
111-ciabase 9079.txt
SUBJECT: COVERT A, MAJOR COVERT ACTIONS AND POLICIES
DATES: 1983-1984
ENTRY: Suriname, Mauritius, 1983-1984. Former DCI Turner discusses probable covert action excesses under DCI Casey. He said published reports discussed covert ops in Mauritius and Suriname.
SOURCE: Washington Post, (newspaper). Washington, DC. 10/23/84
Source code: WP
111-ciabase 9080.txt
SUBJECT: COVERT A, MAJOR COVERT ACTIONS AND POLICIES
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ENTRY: Surinam, undefined. In December, CIA Director William Casey told House and Senate intel committees President Reagan authorized CIA to try to topple Surinam ruler Col. Desi Bouterse, supposedly leading his country into “the Cuban orbit.” Even though committee refused to approve the covert op, there is good reason to believe admin did what it wished. Invasion of country was scheduled for July 1, 1983 by Florida-based mercenaries and others. Called off only after being discovered by internal security system of Netherlands, the former colonial power in Surinam.
SOURCE: Covert Action Information Bulletin Magazine, (all issues). New York and Washington, DC. Winter 90 9
Source code: CAIB
111-ciabase 9081.txt
SUBJECT: COVERT A, MAJOR COVERT ACTIONS AND POLICIES
DATES: 1990-1992
ENTRY: Surinam, 1990-1992. CIA and the Dutch IRB running joint ops in Surinam. CIA involved in military destabilization thru one of its leading Cuban exile agents, Frank Castro, now living in Santo Domingo. Members of group who know of op include Ronnie Brunswijk, Max Belfort, Francesco Samson, and Frits Hirschland. Ramsewak Shankar, former Surinamese president, also accuses the CIA. Details long record of Frank Castro.
SOURCE: No source listed. 2/12/92 4,5
Source code: IN
111-ciabase 15592.txt
SUBJECT: FRONT ORG, null
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ENTRY: Latin America, undefined. NED/FTUI support for Centro de Estudios Cooperativos y Laborales para America Latina (CECL), TRG program of Histadrut, Israel’s Democratic Labor Federation: labor leaders of Argentina; trade unions in Bolivia; Instituto Cultural do Trabalho, Brazil; Caribbean Congress of Labour; Caribbean Political Education Committees; regional bureaus of Central Democratico de Trabajadores of Chile; Columbia, Union de Trabajadores de Colombia; Costa Rica, sponsorship of conference on “Democracy, Peace and Central America;” Dominican Republic seminars on political theory; Ecuador, educational program on “Democratic Political Theory;” International Trade Secretariat program; Costa Rica, “Libro Iibre,” a major book and pamphlet publishing program; Mexico, Confederacion de Trabajadores; Peru, Peruvian Workers Confederation; Suriname, Dutch-based Council for Liberation of Suriname; Uruguay, Uruguayan Technical Assistance Centers (ATS).
SOURCE: National Endowment for Democracy Annual Reports. Washington D.C. 85 41-5; 86 P46
Source code: NEDA
111-ciabase 15593.txt
SUBJECT: FRONT ORG, null
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ENTRY: Latin America, undefined. NED/FTUI supported “Labor Rights Watch” program. At center is “Inter-American Committee on Human and Trade Rights.” Established in 85, committee investigates violations of human rights throughout hemisphere. Efforts have focused on Chile, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Suriname.
SOURCE: National Endowment for Democracy Annual Reports. Washington D.C. 1985 29
Source code: NEDA
111-ciabase 20386.txt
SUBJECT: LABOR, LABOR ORGS AND OPS BY CIA
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ENTRY: Suriname, undefined. NED sponsoring radio station for exiled union leaders.
SOURCE: National Endowment for Democracy Annual Reports. Washington D.C. 1984 19
Source code: NEDA
111-ciabase 22217.txt
SUBJECT: LIAISON, WITH FOREIGN INTEL SERVICES
DATES: 1982-1990
ENTRY: Netherlands, Suriname, 1982-1990. An important target – the former Dutch colony whose leader Desi Bouterse was accused of involvement in heroin trafficking and for the murder in 12/82 of opponents of his regime. American-Dutch cooperation intensified and a joint CIA-IDB op in the former Dutch colony Surinam in Latin America was planned. It was a covert op aimed at toppling Desi Bouterse. American Delta Force units and Navy SEALs made reconnaissance missions to Surinam. Plans for a joint American-Dutch invasion were drawn up in 1983, 1985, and 1986 and came to the critical point of ‘Go or No-Go.’ However, every time The Hague balked down in the final stage because no political alternative in Suriname was available. The IDB thereupon is said to have tried twice to bribe Bouterse out of the country into Brazil. Book, Villa Maarheeze is published by the Dutch Govt Printing Office. E-mail 9/99.
SOURCE: No source listed. undefined
Source code: .
111-ciabase 22218.txt
SUBJECT: LIAISON, WITH FOREIGN INTEL SERVICES
DATES: 1993-1994
ENTRY: Netherlands, Suriname, 1993-1994. A journal of Surinamese community in the Netherlands published an astonishing article naming names and activities of Dutch intel officials involved in covert action in Suriname. Major Werner van der Berg was active in 80s collecting intel for his superiors Col. De Vries and later Col Kraak and Col Bosch. Other names.
SOURCE: No source listed. 2/24/94 7
Source code: IN
111-ciabase 23875.txt
SUBJECT: NED, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
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ENTRY: Memo from Carl Gersham to Eugenia Kemble recommending NED not advertise support to recipients in Philippines, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Poland, France, Suriname, Paraguay. No date assigned. Date 9/84.
SOURCE: No source listed. undefined
Source code: .
111-ciabase 25647.txt
SUBJECT: OVERSIGHT, OVERSIGHT ORGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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ENTRY: undefined. Special Forces training review sought. House and Senate defense committees plan to require Defense Secretary Cohen to play a greater role in deciding whether and how U.S. special ops train foreign militaries in sensitive countries. Measure is a reaction to problems identified with the Joint Combined Exchange Training Program (JCET), funded by a 1991 law that says U.S. troops may go on training exercises with foreign militaries overseas if the primary purpose is to train U.S. troops. Washington Post reported this week that many missions have other goals, such as training foreign troops in counterdrug and counterinsurgency ops, and are not well monitored by senior foreign policy officials. Lethal-tactics training in countries such as Indonesia, Colombia, Rwanda, Suriname, Equatorial Guinea, Turkey, and Papua New Guinea also suggested the program is out of step with the broader foreign policy of fostering military respect for human rights.
SOURCE: Washington Post, (newspaper). Washington, DC. 7/15/98 A25
Source code: WP
111-ciabase 26200.txt
SUBJECT: OVERSIGHT, OVERSIGHT ORGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
DATES: 1982-1983
ENTRY: Suriname, 1982-1983. After the massacre of 15 people, the Reagan admin planned a CIA op to overthrow Col. Bouterse. The House and Senate committees objected and instead the admin halted a 3-year $2.5 million economic aid program. For add info see source: The Nation, (magazine). New York: NY. 2/11/84 P153-5
Source code: NA
111-ciabase 26362.txt
SUBJECT: OVERTHROW, ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN GVTS
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ENTRY: Former DCI Turner said his agency sought but rejected ways to overthrow Iran’s Khomeni, Libya’s Khadafi, Cuba’s Castro and the Sandinistas of Nicaragua. Baltimore Sun 5/12/83. President Reagan authorized a plan to overthrow GVT of Surinam with a paramilitary force of exiles but dropped the idea when Congress objected. Similar plan considered against Grenada.
SOURCE: No source listed. 6/1/83 P15
Source code: PP/USA
111-ciabase 26760.txt
SUBJECT: OVERTHROW, ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN GVTS
DATES: 1982-1983
ENTRY: Suriname, 1982-1983. After the massacre of 15 people, the Reagan admin planned a CIA op to overthrow Col. Bouterse. The House and Senate committees objected and instead the admin halted a 3-year $2.5 million economic aid program. For add info see
SOURCE: The Nation, (magazine). New York: NY. 2/11/84 P153-5
Source code: NA
111-ciabase 26761.txt
SUBJECT: OVERTHROW, ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN GVTS
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ENTRY: Suriname, undefined. In 12/82, ABC News reported a CIA plan to overthrow the Bouterse regime, which DCI Casey told Congress was leading the country “into the Cuban orbit.”
SOURCE: NACLA Report on America’s Magazine, (most issues). New York. 8/85 P35
Source code: NACLA
111-ciabase 26762.txt
SUBJECT: OVERTHROW, ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN GVTS
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ENTRY: Suriname, undefined. On 12/8/82 at least 15 people – prominent political opponents, journalists, and trade union leaders – were killed in a coup attempt. Col. Bouterse said the 15 plotted with the CIA to overthrow him. US officials said there had been a plan but it had been dropped after the congressional committees objected.
SOURCE: New York Times, (newspaper). New York, NY. 11/30/87
Source code: NYT
111-ciabase 26763.txt
SUBJECT: OVERTHROW, ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN GVTS
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ENTRY: Suriname, undefined. In March 83, CIA sent briefers to Secretary Shultz to outline plan under which a force of 50 to 175 Korean commandos would stage out of Venezuela and run an assault in Paramaribo to overthrow Bouterse. It was harebrained scheme. Shultz was shaken to find such a plan put forth seriously by CIA.
SOURCE: Shultz, G. (1993). Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 296-7
Source code: TUT
111-ciabase 26764.txt
SUBJECT: OVERTHROW, ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN GVTS
DATES: 1982-1983
ENTRY: Surinam, 1982-1983. A CIA plot to overthrow the GVT rejected by the HIC.
SOURCE: Nair, K. (1986). Devil and His Dart: How the CIA is Plotting in the Third World. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers (P) LTD. 97
Source code: DHD
111-ciabase 26765.txt
SUBJECT: OVERTHROW, ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN GVTS
DATES: 1982-1983
ENTRY: Surinam, 1982-1983. Three CIA attempts to overthrow GVT of Colonel Desi Bouterse. Unsuccessful. HARPERS, 4/84 P20
SOURCE: No source listed. undefined
Source code: .
111-ciabase 29507.txt
SUBJECT: POLICY, FOREIGN POLICY GENERAL
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ENTRY: U.S., Netherlands, undefined. Deplore army coup in Suriname.
SOURCE: Washington Post, (newspaper). Washington, DC. 12/26/90 A18
Source code: WP
111-ciabase 32188.txt
SUBJECT: RELIGION, USE OF RELIGIOUS ORGS AND INDIVIDUALS
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ENTRY: Wycliffe Bible Translators specialize in linguistic and religious work among tribal peoples. They effectively combine scientific technique with religious mystification…to the old process of pacifying native peoples. WBT also created the Summer Institute of Linguistics. See chart on page 20 for a list of training centers for the SIL. No covert relationship with U.S. intel or paramilitary op revealed but WBT/SIL is in part funded by the Agency for International Development in Vietnam, Nepal, and Peru. WBT/SIL active in Latin America; i.e., Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Surinam, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. It works with Indians in North America and indigenous people of Europe, Africa, and Asia. For detailed info see
SOURCE: NACLA Report on America’s Magazine, (most issues). New York. 12/73 P15-21
Source code: NACLA
111-ciabase 33036.txt
SUBJECT: SURINAME, undefined
DATES:
ENTRY: Suriname
SOURCE: Covert Action Information Bulletin Magazine, (all issues). New York and Washington, DC. 18:63; 20:6
Source code: CAIB
111-ciabase 33037.txt
SUBJECT: SURINAME, undefined
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ENTRY: Suriname. Finding to allow CIA team to Suriname to do coup feasibility study. Brazil service with CIA help sent agents into Suriname posing as teachers, to wean GVT away from Cubans.
SOURCE: Woodward, B. (1987). Veil. New York: Simon and Schuster. 240, 256
Source code: VE
111-ciabase 33038.txt
SUBJECT: SURINAME, undefined
DATES:
ENTRY: Suriname
SOURCE: Blum, W. (1986). The CIA: A Forgotten History. London and New Jersey: Zed Books, Ltd. 317-319
Source code: FOR
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