Identifier
Created
Classification
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06GEORGETOWN290
2006-03-28 20:18:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Georgetown
Cable title:  

POLICE CHIEF REQUESTS USG HELP INVESTIGATING DRUG

Tags:  SNAR PINS KCRM GY 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 000290 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

CARACAS ALSO FOR LEGATT
PORT OF SPAIN ALSO FOR A/LEGATT, DEA
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/28/2016
TAGS: SNAR PINS KCRM GY
SUBJECT: POLICE CHIEF REQUESTS USG HELP INVESTIGATING DRUG
LORD

REF: A. GEORGETOWN 278

B. GEORGETOWN 205

Classified By: Ambassador Roland W. Bullen
For reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L GEORGETOWN 000290

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

CARACAS ALSO FOR LEGATT
PORT OF SPAIN ALSO FOR A/LEGATT, DEA
SOUTHCOM ALSO FOR POLAD

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/28/2016
TAGS: SNAR PINS KCRM GY
SUBJECT: POLICE CHIEF REQUESTS USG HELP INVESTIGATING DRUG
LORD

REF: A. GEORGETOWN 278

B. GEORGETOWN 205

Classified By: Ambassador Roland W. Bullen
For reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) Guyana Police Force (GPF) Commissioner Winston Felix
paid Ambassador a visit March 27 to request U.S. government
assistance on two specific matters. The requests stem from
last week's joint army/police raids on drug lord Shaheed
"Roger" Khan's properties and the widely, anonymously
distributed secret recording of Felix's phone conversation
with a senior opposition politician (ref A). Felix followed
up this personal request to Ambassador with an official
letter March 28 reiterating the support he is seeking.


2. (C) Felix seeks assistance to determine whether a recently
constructed house believed to be owned by a Khan and/or
Ricardo Rodrigues associate, and currently in GPF's control,
has a concealed basement. This house is located near the
residence of the Canadian and UK High Commissioners, who
observed the installation of a very large concrete pit during
the suspected house's construction. The High Commissioners
initially thought this underground structure was for a
swimming pool, yet the completed house has no pool. Felix
believes that a concealed basement might contain illegal
items, including drugs and the AK-47s that disappeared from
the Guyana Defence Force's armory in February (ref B).
Multiple sources have confirmed that an unusually high number
of vehicles went to the suspected house during the first
raids against Khan's properties. Felix said the GPF lacks
the resources to detect a concealed basement, but he does not
want to release the building until he is sure that no such
underground structure exists.


3. (C) Felix also requested assistance in conducting a
thorough sweep of his office to ensure that there is no
surreptitious recording device. Khan is responsible for the
secret Felix recording and indications are that Felix's

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office may have been bugged. The local phone company GT&T
conducted a cursory check of Felix's office, but not to
Felix's satisfaction.


4. (C) Post RSO is working with A/LEGATT and DEA
Port-of-Spain on these requests.


5. (C) Comment. Felix is Post's most trusted and effective
interlocutor on law enforcement issues. The recent
army/police raids have put Khan and his associates on the
defensive. Failing to thoroughly investigate for a concealed
basement at the suspected house would be a terrible missed
opportunity. Likewise, further illegal recordings of Felix's
conversations by Khan would only hamper the current,
unprecedented initiative to bring Guyana's leading
narco-traffickers to justice. End comment.
BULLEN