Guyana/British Guiana: Declassified

Documents

 

British Guiana, 1961-3 (Mark Curtis files from National Archives)

The Suspension of the British Guiana Constitution, 1953, Guyana.org

Report of the British Guiana Constitutional Commission, 1954, Guyana.org

British files on British Guiana, 1957-8, National Archives, KV2/3625

British files on British Guiana, 1958-64, Guyana.org

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-3, Volume XII

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-8, Volume XXXII

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume E-10

Additional declassified US documents from the State Department, 1961-71, jagan.org

Articles

1953 overthrow

Mark Curtis, ‘The intervention in British Guiana, 1953’ (Extract from Web of Deceit, 2003)

‘MI5 files reveal details of 1953 coup that overthrew British Guiana’s leaders’ (Guardian, 26 August 2011)


1963 ‘coup’

Mark Curtis, The ‘coup’ in British Guiana, 1963 (Extract from Unpeople, 2004)


Other

‘Guyana exploration revives Venezuela border dispute’ (Daily Herald, 3 March 2015)