I am no Political expert but this link came in my mail box overnight.
Relations between the Soviet Bloc and the former British South American colony British Guiana (Guyana) have been a source of controversy since the charismatic figure of Dr. Cheddi Jagan came on the Guianese political scene in the late 1940s. Jagan was a known Marxist and an alleged Communist, although he routinely denied it. His wife, formerly Janet Rosenberg of Chicago, had been a member of the Young Communist League while a college student, but she also denied allegations that she was a Communist. Nonetheless, throughout their careers in British Guiana, which included Cheddi’s election to lead the colony in 1953, 1957, and 1961, opponents claimed that the Jagans and other top figures in their People’s Progressive Party (PPP) were Communists. The Jagans and other PPP officials habitually spoke well of Communist countries and their leaders, never found reason to criticize them even when directly asked, belonged to international Communist-front organizations, and travelled to Communist countries. This was enough to convince the US government – and for a time, the British – that the Jagans were Communists bent upon taking independent Guyana into the Soviet Bloc. Historian Stephen Rabe’s US Intervention in British Guianais an extensive study of the US and British national archives and solidified the modern scholarly consensus that the Jagans were democratic Marxist socialists whom the United States government had misunderstood and therefore reflexively worked to remove from power. “Maybe, one day, the CIA will open its archives and let the public read the damning evidence that one of the agency’s spies collected in British Guiana,” Rabe wrote. “But the declassified intelligence record currently does not sustain charges that Jagan intended to take his country into the Soviet camp.”[i]
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