THE SITUATION IN SURINAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001304040077-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: February 3, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

' . The Director of _~ntral Inteilivence
Rrshin~;km. D. C ZOSOS
3 February 1983
MEMORAaVUU~~t FOR: The Honorable (;li 11 i am P. Clark
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
suicide of Mayor Roy Norb. _ _
Pursuant to our conversation, here's what we know
about the current situation in Suriname and the reported
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1. The Government F.aclio in Paramaribo, Surinarie, announced
on the morning of 3 February that tiiajor P.oy I!orb, the ex-D~L?uty
Commander of the Surinamese Armed Forces, hanged h_ir:~Sel:C in
his prison cell during the night. Major Korb, ~:~ho h