CIA TARGETED SURINAME, ABC REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B00478R000800380003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 1, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/12/23 : CIA-RDP92B00478R000800380003-0
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WASHINGTON POST
1 JUNE 1983
CIA Targeted
Su,rin,arrt-e,
ABC Reports
Unnet Pnla linermemnal
President Reagan author-
ized covert CIA actions
?aimed At overthrowing the
'government Of Suriname last
year htit.-baCked off: becatise?
? of Strong congresSiOnkr_ op:
- -paitioh, ABC .News reported
last night.
ABC said the rationale of
Reazin and the CIA Was
that Desi Boute' rse, Military
? leader of-the South Arrierican
'state, was moving toward
close alliance With Cuba:
? White 1-1Ouse spOkesnian
Anson '..Franklin said "'last
night,'It is the aiiministra.:'
tion's-poliCY not to comment
on -Any TepOrz of cOvert-ac-
tivities.'
? Rep. Edward P. -Boland ?
" (D-Mass.), chairman di' the'
- House Permanent -Select
Committee ,--on Intelligence,
said, 'I don't discuss any
matters of that committee.'
. ABC reported that CIA.'
:Director Wiliiwro J. Casey, as
?required by law, informed -
Eoland's panel and the Sen-
ate 'Select Committee on In-
telligence of the plan to cre-
ate a paramilita.y force of ,
exiles from Suriname.
. In the face of overwhelm-
.ing bipartisan .oppositior., the
aciministratOn reportedly
- reconsidered. Several weeks
after Casey's appearance on
,Caj3itol Hill, he told thezom-
:mittees that the ? plan was
being withdrawn, ABC, said.
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