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S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 GEORGETOWN 000137 
 
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DS/IP/WHA 
DS/ER/CC 
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WHA/CAR 
WHA/EX 
S/CRS 
BRIDGETOWN ALSO FOR ORA 
CARACAS ALSO FOR LEGATT 
PORT OF SPAIN ALSO FOR DEA, LEGATT, AND ORA 
 
E.O. 12958: DNG: CO 02/08/2016 
TAGS: ASEC PTER PGOV PREL SNAR GY
SUBJECT: DEATH THREAT AGAINST U.S. AMBASSADOR AND PROMINENT 
GUYANESE 
 
REF: GEORGETOWN 111 
 
Classified By: DCM Michael D. Thomas for reason 1.4 (d) 
 
¶1. (S) Ambassador met with Major General (ret.) Norman McLean 
on February 8 at McLean's request.  At the meeting, McLean 
handed Ambassador a sheet of paper listing information he had 
received from a policeman who has access to the Buxton area. 
This paper described a discussion regarding an operation to 
kill high profile people in retaliation for the murder of 
Ronald Waddell (reftel).  Ambassador's name was one of 
thirteen names listed.  This paper described a discussion 
that reportedly occurred February 4 after Waddell's funeral 
procession.  According to press reports and McLean's 
information, when the funeral procession reached Buxton, some 
members of the crowd removed Waddell's body from the casket, 
told police, the media, and other members of the procession 
to wait while they paraded through an area known as "the 
Gulf", where persons in black masks carrying AK-47s fired 
shots into the air as a final salute to the man who had 
praised the vigilante "Buxton resistance". 
 
¶2. (S) It is difficult to evaluate the credibility of this 
threat.  However, McLean is a serious and experienced 
security professional.  McLean said his source offered to 
obtain further information, but McLean advised him not to. 
McLean said he brought the matter to Ambassador's attention 
because he believes the source is credible and he believes 
that retaliation for the Waddell murder is inevitable. 
 
¶3. (S) Post is taking the following actions to improve 
Ambassador's security. 
-- A/RSO detailed to Ambassador's existing Police Protective 
Detail when Ambassador traveling out of home or office. 
-- RSO will re-brief Ambassador's Protective Detail and 
Drivers on principles of protection. 
-- Ambassador and Ambassador's driver will increase variation 
in routes and times of Ambassador's travel. 
-- One SD team (two members) will be dedicated to the 
Ambassador. 
-- RSO will ask Commissioner of Police to detail an armed 
Police Officer of the Special Response Team to the EMR. 
-- Motor pool will vary armored vehicle used to transport 
Ambassador rather than using one vehicle constantly. 
 
¶4. (S) Text of note follows.  Begin quote: 
 
INFORMATION RECEIVED 
 
After the funeral of Waddell on Saturday, it seems that 
elements associated with the group had a discussion on some 
form of retaliation.  The two-for-one ratio was expanded on 
this occasion for more high profile targets.  The following 
were identified as possible targets but Odinga Lumumba is 
felt to be top of the list. 
 
Odinga Lumumba   -  High Profile target seen as an organizer 
Sita Ramlal      -  too powerful and dismissing black people 
Norman McLean    -  Association with the above and wanted 
badly for crossing over to PPP 
Chief Justice Carl Singh  -  High Profile target 
Donald Ramotar   -  As above 
Roger Luncheon   -  As above and a sell out of black people 
Steve Surujbali  -  High Profile target 
 
Juror in Mark Benschop Case  -  for obvious reasons 
 
Roger Khan)      -  Association or control 
Ricardo)            of Phantom groups 
 
Brian Tiwari     -  High Profile Indian 
Khursid Sattaur  -  Government Official and High profile 
Indian 
 
Roland Bullen    -  US Ambassador lending support to 
Government 
 
It is understood that reconnaissance has started in several 
areas e.g., Bel Air where there is a Phantom House and where 
SR lives.  Hits could start on the anniversary of the 
jailbreak around Mash time.  The scenarios could be Hits 
direct and by staged vehicle accidents. 
Purpose to cause chaos and confusion, disrupt the likelihood 
of investment and frustrate the upcoming Elections and 
improve chances of a Constitutional crisis.  It is understood 
further that an operative named Rawlins aka &Fine Man,8 
Oliver Hinckson, Godwin McPherson and others, are 
orchestrating these actions. 
 
End Quote. 
 
¶5. (SBU) A copy of the note as been e-mailed to WHA/CAR Laura 
Luftig. 
 
Post Bio notes on persons named as targets: 
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¶6. (S) Odinga Lumumba: Strong man for the former PNC 
government.  Followed ex-Prime Minister Hamilton Green to the 
GGG when the PNC expelled Green then moved to the PPP. 
Currently Coordinator of the President's Youth Choice 
Initiative, Presidential Advisor on Empowerment PPP Member of 
Parliament, President of the Guyana Football League, central 
figure in a wildlife export scandal, frequently seen clubbing 
with President Jagdeo and popularly rumored to procure women 
for the President. 
 
¶7. (SBU) Sita Ramlal: Registrar of the Supreme Court and 
Norman McLean's girlfriend. 
 
¶8. (SBU) Norman McLean: Served as both Commissioner of Police 
and Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defense Force during the 
Burnham years.  Since the early 1990s McLean has been Human 
Resources Manager of Omai Gold Mines, a subsidiary of 
Canada's Cambior Inc.  A fixture in the business community, 
McLean has occupied a number of positions including President 
of the Guyana Manufactures Association, member of the 
Security Sub-Committee of the Local Organizing Committee for 
the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Deputy Chairman of the Ethnic 
Relations Commission.  Most pertinent to the matter at hand, 
McLean served as a member of the Presidential Commission of 
Inquiry that incredibly cleared former Minister of Home 
Affairs Gajraj of involvement in extra-judicial killings by 
the Phantom Squad. 
 
¶9. (C) Carl Singh: Chief Justice of the High Court, Acting 
Chancellor of the Judiciary, active in efforts to streamline 
administration of justice and reduce judicial corruption, and 
widely perceived to be partial to the PPP Government. 
 
¶10. (SBU) Juror in Mark Benschop Case: the only one of ten 
jurors who voted to convict Benschop for treason after he led 
a crowd storming the Office of the President in 2002. 
Popular opinion believes the juror was suborned by the 
PPP/government to vote guilty. 
 
¶11. (U) Donald Ramotar: General Secretary of the People's 
Progressive Party, Member of Parliament. 
 
¶12. (S) Roger Luncheon: Head of the Presidential Secretariat 
and second ranking member of Cabinet after the Prime 
Minister.  Commonly referred to as "Machiavelli" by the 
Diplomatic Corps.  Commissioner of Police Felix says Luncheon 
ordered him to say that the arrest of drug-kingpin and 
Phantom Squad member Roger Khan at a Guyana Defense Force 
roadblock in an armored vehicle with high-tech cell phone 
intercept equipment and automatic weaponry was a mistake 
because it was a police operation (Felix refused). 
 
¶13. (SBU) Steve Surujballi: Chairman of the Guyana Elections 
Commission, veterinarian, former director of the National 
Dairy Development Program, former member of the Working 
People's Alliance. 
 
¶14. (U) Roger Khan: Guyana's number one narco-trafficker and 
a member of the Phantom Squad used by GoG in 2003-2004 to 
reign in an out-of-control crime situation.  Widely rumored 
to be responsible for the execution-style murder of Ronald 
Waddell. 
 
¶15. (SBU) Brian Tiwari: Managing Director of engineering firm 
B.K. International Contractors that wins many government 
contracts.  Locally referred to as one of the "untouchables" 
because his firm continues to get government contracts 
despite poor performance. 
 
¶16. (SBU) Khursid Sattaur: Commissioner General of Guyana 
Revenue Authority.  Disliked by nearly everyone who has any 
contact with the GRA. 
 
Bio Notes on purported perpetrators: 
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¶17. (SBU) Rawlins aka "Fine Man": A gang member resident in 
Buxton.  Reportedly the target of a 2005 Roger Khan-led 
execution attempt that mistakenly killed a young boy in 
Buxton. 
 
¶18. (SBU) Oliver Hinckson: According to McLean, a former GDF 
lieutenant.  Now associated with the COPS Security Service. 
 
¶19. (C) Godwin McPherson: Former number two in the Guyana 
Defense Force with the rank of Colonel was cashiered from the 
GDF in 1996 and prosecuted for multiple charges of theft and 
embezzlement totaling nearly US$2 million.  Currently serves 
as PNC Representative on the National Sports Commission Board 
and President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation. 
Now employed as Physical Education Coordinator at the 
Ministry of Education.  Served as Chief Elections Officer for 
the April 2005 Guyana Public Service Union elections that 
were marred by accusations of irregularities in counting the 
ballots. 
 
BULLEN