U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War StoryUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2005 - 240 pages In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph. |
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Imperial Adjustments 19531960 | 47 |
Covert Intervention 19611962 | 75 |
Proportional Representation 19631964 | 105 |
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Affairs AFL-CIO Afro-Guyanese Ambassador American anticommunist April August blacks Booker Brothers British Guiana British officials Bundy Caribbean Carlson Castro Cheddi Jagan Churchill Cold Cold War Colonial Office Colonial Secretary colony's Commonwealth Communist covert Cuba Cuban December democratic Department diplomats Eisenhower election electoral February File Forbes Burnham Foreign Office Fraser FRUS Georgetown GMLA Governor Grey Greenwood Guyanese History of Guyana Indians Intelligence Jagan government Janet Jagan JFKL Johnson administration July June Labor Latin America LBJL leaders London Lovestone Luyt Lyttleton Maddox March Meany Melby memorandum of conversation National Security November NSFCO October party percent Peter D'Aguiar Political and Social PREM President Kennedy Prime Minister proportional representation racial Renison reported Romualdi Rusk Sandys Schlesinger September Singh Social History Soviet Union Spinner sugar tion trade union U.S. embassy U.S. foreign U.S. officials United Kingdom vote Washington West on Trial Western Hemisphere Wilson