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2impendingdoom ago

From the dump: I was searching for carlisle, lynch's cia alias, but found this little oddity: US Treasury agents (hitmen) sent to Grenada, concerns barrels of petroleum jelly and weapons...

Doc# C17671127.pdf

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PAGE 0 1 ACTION ARA-15 BRIDGE 01058 212025Z RELEASED IN FULL INFO OCT-01 EUR-12 ISO-00 CIAE-00 DODE-00 NSCE-00 SSO-00 ICAE-00 INRE-00 PM-05 L-03 PA-01 SP-02 SS-15 SY-05 SYE-00 CTME-00 /070 W NSAE —00 H-01 INR-10 MCE —00 0 R 211633Z MAR 79

FM AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN

TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7754

/TREASURY DEPARTMENT PRIORITY INFO AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN AMEMBASSY KINGSTON AMEMBASSY LONDON AMEMBASS PORT OF SPAIN 008333 212040Z /43 RELEASED IN FULL

C 0 N F I D E N T I A L BRIDGETOWN 1058

TREASURY PLEASE PASS ATF AND CUSTOMS OFFICES, FALLS CHURCH

E.O. 12065: GDS, 3/21/85(CAMP, DONALD A. ) OR-P TAGS: PINT, PROP GJ

SUBJEKT: GRENADA: GAIRY INTERVIEW — ALLEGATION OF US "HITMEN" REF: BRIDGETON 1056

  1. (LOU) BIWEEKLY BARBADOS NATION NEWSPEPAER HAS PUBLISHED LONG "EXCLSIVE INTERVIEW" FROM NEW YORK WITH DEPOSED GRENADIAN PRIME MINISTER SIR ERIC GAIRY. IN COURSE OF INTERVIEW, QUESTIONER, WHO IS NOT IDENTIFIED, CITING "RUMORS, " ASKED WHETHER US OFFICIALS GOING TO GRENAD LAST WEEK (US TREASURYAGENTS INVESTIGATING GUN-RUNNING) WERE IN FACT "HITMEN, " ASSIGNED TO ASSASSINATE NEW JEWEL LEADERS.

  2. (LOU) AFTER ASKING ABOUT MEETING WITH US AMBASSADOR DURING HIS STOPOVER IN BARBADOS (DETAILS CONTINED REFTEL), INTERVIEWER WENT ON AS FOLLOWS (RELEVANT PORTIONS ONLY):

CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 BRIDGE 01058 212025Z

QUOTE Q: DID YOU MEET WITH ANYBODY ELSE?

GAIRY: OH, YES, TWO PEOPLE THAT WERE GOING TO GRENADA.

Q: WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE. THEIR NAMES?

GAIRY: I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAMES. THEY WERE TWO PEOPLE

REVIEW AUTHORITY: Oscar

Olson, Senior Reviewer UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY: OSCAR J OLSON

DATE/CASK ID: 22 FKB 2012 201103128 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2011-03128 Date: 03/29/2012 UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2011-03128 Date: 03/29/2012

REPRESENTING THE INVESTIGATING AGENTS HEREWHO FOUND TWO GRENADIAN-BORN AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH BARRELS OF PETROLEUMJELLY*" WHEN IN FACT THEY WERE GUNS, THE SAME TYPE OF GUNS USED IN GRENADA. . .AMMUNITION, WHICH THEY WERE SENDING TO GRENADA. THOSE TWO PERSONS WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED . THEY ARE ON BAIL NOW $10,000 EACH. THEY WANTED TO FIND THE IMPORTERS IN GRENADA AND THEY HAD ASKED ME FOR PERMISSION WEEKS AGO, AND I SAID THEY COULD COME AND INVESTIGATE. WE KNOW THE IMPORTERS. THE PERSON WHO WENT TO CLEAR THE THREE DRUMS. THREE OFTHEM HAD COME TO GRENADA ON SEPTEMBER 6 WITH AMMUNITON BUT CONSIGNED AS PETROEUM JELLY. WE FOUND TWO OF THEEMPTY BARRELS, THE THIRD ONE WASN'T FOUND. SO WE KNEW FOR A FACT THAT THEY HAD THREE BARRELS OF AMMUNITION. SEVEN SIMILAR BARRELS WERE FOUND IN WASHINGTON FORWHICH TWO PERSONS, CARLISLE WARDALLY AND CHESTER HUMPHREY WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED. THEY ARE NOW ON BAIL.

Q: THERE IS SOMETHING THAT PUZZLES ME. WHEN YOU WENT INTO BARBADOS AND ME WITHTHESE TWO GUYS, THEY WERE GOING INTO YOUR COUNTRY TO INVESTIGATE?

GAIRY: YES, THEY HAVE DONE A LOT OF INVESTIGATIONS. THEY KNOW THEY HAVE A CASE. THEY HAVE GOT THE EXHIBITS.

0: WHY DID YOU SORT OF LEAVE THEM TO GO INTO YOUR COUNTRY AND COME OUT YOURSELF?

GAIRY:; I WAS COMING TO NEW YORK. I KNEW THEY WOULD CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 BRIDGE 01058 212025Z

HAVE BEEN IN GRENADA WITHIN TEN DAYS. I HAD MY MEETING PLANNED AND SET UP A LONG TIME BEFORE I EVEN GOT A WORD THAT THEY WERE COMING. THEY DIDN'T ARREST ANYBODY IN GRENADA. I HAD THIS HERE (ITINERARY) THIS WAS SET UP A LONGTIME. ON MONDAY, I ARRIVED AT KENNEDY AND WAS MET BY GEORGE GRIFFITH AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PERMANENT MISSION. TUESDAY, 13TH 11 O' CLOCK — MEETING WITH UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GEERAL KURT WALDHEIM AT THE UNITED NATIONS. 1 P.M. MEETING. . . I WOULDN' T WANT TO DISCLOSE ALL THE MEETINGS I HAD. AND, SO I HAD ALL THESE MEETINGS ARRANGED BEOFRE I GOT ANY INTIMATION THAT THESE INVESTIGATORS WERE COMING TO GRENADA, AND, I FIGURE THEY WERE NOT COMING TO SEE ME, THEY WERE GOING TO TALK WITH THE POLICE AND PEOPLE OF THAT LEVEL. THEY WERE NOT MINISTERS OF GOVERNMENT, THEY WERE NOT OF ANY HIGH LEVEL, THEY WERE

UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2011-03128 Date: 03/29/2012 UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2011-03128 Date: 03/29/2012

JUST MEMBERS OF THE INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT. AND, I UNCLASSIFIED ALERTED MY POLICE AND MY MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS THAT THESE POEPLE WERE COMING AND THAT WHENEVER THEY CAME, TALK TO THEM.

Q: THERE IS A RUMOUR GOING AROUND THAT YOU KNEW OF THESE TWO MEN THAT YOU MET IF BARBDOS, WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE "HITMEN , " AND YOU KNEW. . .

GAIRY: WHAT ARE"HITMEN?"

Q: HITMEN ARE PEOPLE WHO ASSASSINATE PEOPLE. . .

GAIRY: MY GOSH* NO. NO. NO. NEV

10662241? ago

have you noticed the colloquial use of "call grid" or "the grid"

assuming this is a network of preferred contacts, and not insinuating something sinister, has this been referenced by others?

2impendingdoom ago

I'm noticing a lot of redactions.

10668302? ago

and then tie back to verizon's implications.

and then consider verizon basically shit on the state of new york (hrc state) by taking a lot of money for work never completed. so the state is trying to sue them.