Expect the Right-Wing media to retell all this. "The Grenada Papers, "
edited by late Cold Warrior at UC, Berkeley, Poli Sci Dept, Paul Seabury
with an assist from ex-Wobbly, ex-Trot neo-con, Steven Schwartz, published
bt the ICS, features captured papers of the NJM in Grenada with many letters
from Barbara Lee, then a staffer for Ron Dellums
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1777/dellums.htm
("A copy of the congressman's report was found among the cache of documents
found in Grenada, along with minutes of a New Jewel Movement Politburo
meeting on December 15, 1982. At one point, the minutes assert: "Ron
Dellums: His Assistant - Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with
her a report on the International Airport that was done by Ron Dellums. They
have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem
necessary - they will be willing to make the changes."In other words,
Dellums agreed to let the communist government of Grenada edit his report
before he submitted it to the committee chairman.")
to Maurice Bishop and the
rest of the NJM CC.
Heh, it's Dr. Fred Schwarz who wrote, "You Can Trust the Communists to be
Communists!, " and Dr. David Noebel who wrote, "Marxist Minstrels, " on Bob
Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez,, Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds...
Michael Pugliese
http://www.google.com/search?q=Barbara+Lee+Grenada+Papers+
http://www.schwarzreport.org/SchwarzReport/1999/september99.html
Volume 39 Number 9; September 1999
Marx and the Democrats
by Allan H. Ryskind
Longtime Democrats still yearning to turn their party rightward have
to be dismayed at the Democratic National Committee's decision to make
Carlottia Scott a key part of the DNC's "new senior political/leadership
team."
The far-left Scott has just joined the DNC as "chief of politics,"
where, in the words of a DNC press release, she will become one of "two
individuals to lead the DNC's political shop." (The other is Jeff Forbes,
deputy political director of the Clinton/Gore '96 campaign.)
Scott's left-wing credentials can be gleaned from the political
company she's been keeping for over two decades. Until her appointment, she
was serving as administrative assistant to Rep. Barbara Lee (D.-Calif.), who
sports one of the most liberal voting records in Congress and, according to
anti-Communist expert Herbert Romerstein, was elected in 1992 "to the
National Coordinating Committee of Correspondence, a new dissident Communist
organization" (see Dec. 12, 1992, Human Events).
Before that, Scott served as a top staffer to Rep. Ron Dellums
(D-Calif.), Rep. Lee's predecessor in the 9th District, who made his mark in
Congress by attempting to dismantle the American military and trumpeting the
"virtues" of Fidel Castro, apparently his greatest political hero. (Dellums
resigned his seat in 1998.)
Scott's radical politics came to dazzling light in 1983, when U.S.
armed forces, in the wake of the Grenada invasion, captured documents
revealing that Dellums and his then aides, Lee and Scott, had a unique
relationship with Maurice Bishop, Grenada's Communist ruler, who had seized
power by force in 1979. The U.S. military had intervened in 1983 when
Bishop was murdered, and some 800 American students were in danger of being
taken hostage.
The documents disclosed that Dellums and his aides covered for Bishop
and that Carlottia had even sent the Caribbean leader mash notes. Dellums'
serious effort to obscure Bishop's attempt to communize the region began in
April 1982.
A member of the House Armed Services Committee, Dellums traveled to
Grenada on a supposed fact-finding mission to see if the Point Salines
airfield-as intelligence reports suggested-was being transformed into a
military base that would accommodate Soviet bloc aircraft. Both Lee and
Scott accompanied the congressman.
Instead of sending the results of his investigation directly to his
House colleagues, Dellums, according to the documents, had Lee hand-deliver
a draft copy of his report to Maurice Bishop and his ruling New Jewel
Movement for approval. Scott was an accomplice.
continued from page 1
The minutes of a New Jewel Movement meeting revealed that Lee was
present and "had brought with her a report on the International Airport that
was done by Ron Dellums. They [Dellums and his staff] have requested that
we look at the documents and suggest any changes we deem necessary. They
will be willing to make the changes." (Emphasis added.)
When Dellums presented the final report to the Congress, it
concluded-with Bishop's obvious approval-that "nothing being done in Grenada
constitutes a threat to the United States or her allies."
The captured documents, however, revealed nothing of the kind. They
showed that the Bishop regime was intent on thoroughly communizing Grenada
and that the country was becoming a major military threat to the region. By
the time of the invasion, Grenada had received a gigantic infusion of arms
from the Soviet bloc and, in the words of the scholarly "The Grenada
Papers," nearly 900 "Cuban, Libyan, Soviet, North Korean, East German and
Bulgarian personnel were in Grenada to assist in the transformation of the
island into a major military camp."
So far as the Grenadian airport that Dellums and his staff dismissed
as nonthreatening, a March 22, 1980, notation by Lt. Col. Liam James, a
deputy to Grenadian Gen. Hudson Austin and a member of the New Jewel
Movement Central Committee, read: "The Revo[lution] has been able to crush
the Counter-revolution internationally, airport will be used for Cuban and
Soviet military."
Scott, the DNC's new political chief, was not only a participant in
Dellums' bogus fact-finding mission, but the captured documents include
letters she had sent to Bishop for at least a year before the Dellums visit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William S. Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 5:40 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:17150] Re: Support Cong. Lee
> On Saturday, September 15, 2001 at 02:32:13 (-0700) Steve Diamond writes:
> >Congressperson Barbara Lee (D.Oak) was the lone Congressperson to resist
the
> >drumbeat to war and vote against the hasty Congressional resolution
granting
> >the President wide powers to conduct a war in the Mid East. You can
thank
> >and encourage Cong. Lee via email at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Actually, Lee is from California, born in El Paso, Masters in Social
> Work from Berkeley, '75 (for further info: http://www.house.gov/lee,
> though it is not very up-to-date).
>
>
> Bill
>
