RAID ORGANIZER HINTED CIA OK, BLACK JURY TOLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000504970002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 18, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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18 June 1981
By Bob Bray
News staff writer
ment of Prime Minister ' Eugenia .
Charles.
The group planned to reinstall de,
posed Prime Minister Patrick John,
according to the indictments.
The men were charged with con-
spiracy_ to break the law, plotting the
invasion of a country frieddly to-the
United States, and five violations of
NEW ORLEANS - An admitted
member of a mercenary band al?
legedly seeking to overthrow the gov-:
ernment of Dominica says he was
under the impression the U.S. govern.
ment might be sanctioning the plot.
Michael Perdue; organizer of the
band, "didn't actually come out, and
say it, but he put the seed of suspicion
in. my mind that possibly , the 'CIA
(U.S. Central. Intelligence 'Agency)
might have been involved in this,"
Christopher. Anderson testified
Wednesday:
Anderson, 41, of Oklahoma City,
and six other roen have pleaded
guilty to a single federal "charge"in
connection with the *alleged coup at-
tempt..
Poe'Black, 27,+ of D mingham,
Michael Stanley. Norris, 21f, of Tusca
1403'a, and Joe Daniel Hawkins, 37, of
Smith County, .Miss., refused to plead
guilty and are standing trial on seven
ednescia+ t a
n erson testified
Perdue, who pleaded guilty in-the,-
case and testified Tuesday- against
Black, Norris and Hawkins, never,
actually said the operation was sane-
tigned by anyU.S. agency.
"But he (Perdue) did say he had a
friend in the (U.S.) State Department
in New Orleans, Anderson testified
Wednesday.
ANDERSON SAID,during the third
day of the trial that he-- first met
Perdue when. in February he answer-
ed an advertisement in Le Merce-
naire, a newsletter for soldiers of for-.
tune.
federal charges resulting from their He said Perdue flew him to
arrest as part of the allege?_raiding ,.,Houston to discuss the operation.
p4 tY ..' :. `.`He told m..e we were going to over-
All IQ men were .feete4 near throw, the government of Dominica,'.
New Orleans hnd lstec wer0 jn icte4 a small Caribbeanv, island of 80,004
by a fcdez'al.gracld jug,. .: ~_. ;_.. .. blacks, said Anderson.
He quoted Perdue assaying that "I
THE GOVERNMENT claims that would like to have a bloodless coup,
at the time.gf their arrest the.l0 were but who knows what could happen?"
abbout to board a beat for DoLAin ca~to - Anderson said Perdue told him at
initiate 'the takeover, 61 .414 goyern=.-,j
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