Grenada Documents: An Overview and Selection; Released by the Department of State and the Department of Defense

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Footnotes. Illustrations. Pencil erasure residue on title page. "Of the thousands of documents found on the Caribbean island of Grenada after the October 1983 rescue mission, more than a hundred have been printed in this collection, which provides unique insights into the aims and methods of a Communist dictatorship and its relations with the Soviet-Cuban apparatus." Introduction by Michael Ledeen and Herbert Romerstein. The books measures 8.5 inches by 11 inches by 1.75 inches thick. The pages are not numbered. Some references say the book is 700 pages long; one report says it's 813 pages long. The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington received over five tons of documents collected by US armed forces on Grenada. These are called “The Grenada Documents Collection, ” Record Group 373, National Archives Microfiche T1280, housed at the National Archives II modern facility in College Park, Maryland.
Masses of material, mostly all in English [some Spanish, a few in Russian], provide a huge body of primary source material on the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) during its existence from 13 March 1979 to 25 October 1983. The documents represent the critical mass of the entire body of paperwork produced by the Peoples Revolutionary Government (PRG), generally from 1979 to October 1983 but there are documents from the political activities before the 13 March 1979 Revolution.
They were acquired by US soldiers from government buildings such as Butler House, Fort Frederick and Maurice Bishop's official residence at Mt. Wheldale.
Condition: Good.

Keywords: Grenada, New Jewel Movement, Maurice Bishop, Military Intervention, Counterintelligence, Soviet Union, Liam James, Loison-Ogarkov, Gail Reed Rizo, Detainees, Special Branch, Military Cooperation, USSR, Michael Ledeen, Herbert Romerstein

[Book #75368]

Price: $275.00

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