JACK ANDERSON: SURINAME AND BRAZIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100680007-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 29, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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April 29, 1983 11:00 PM
STATION WTTG TV
Washington, DC
GLORIA GIBBON: Another hot spot may be developing to
America's south. Metromedia 5's Jack Anderson has learned the
CIA is trying to head off a war between Brazil and one of its
neighbors.
JACK ANDERSON: The Central Intelligence Agency today
received a top secret message. It reports that a brigade of
Brazilian soldiers have crossed the border into neighboring
Suriname. The Brazilian force is poised in the jungle for an
attack on the capital city of Paramaribo.
The Brazilians have sent an ultimatum to the president
of Suriname, Colonel Desire Bouterse. He's a left-wing military
ruler who has surrounded himself with Cuban and East German
advisers. The ultimatum serves notice on Bouterse that the
Brazilian force will invade his capital within 72 hours unless he
kicks out his communist advisers.
Here's the background. Suriname is not exactly the
hottest toursit spot on the northern coast of South America. But
this former Dutch colony is quickly becoming the first pro-
Soviet, pro-Cuban nation in South America. The Dutch left behind
a US-built runway that's long enough for jet fighters. From this
field, Cuban Mig-23 jets could strike 1,000 miles deep into
Brazil, so the Brazilians have intervened.
My sources tell me the United States is attempting to
intercede secretly to prevent a war between Brazil and Suriname,
otherwise this could erupt into a major confrontation with the
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United States supporting Brazil and the Soviets supporting
Suriname.
This is Jack Anderson for Metromedia News in Washington.
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