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'''Cheddi Berret Jagan''' (22 March 1918 – 6 March 1997) was a Guyanese [[Marxism|Marxist]] and leader of the Guyanese independence movement. He founded the [[People's Progressive Party]] and served as Prime Minister of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964 and President of independent Guyana from 1992 to 1997.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Jeremy Kuzmarov|newspaper=[[CovertAction Magazine]]|title=Was the CIA Behind the Jonestown Massacre?|date=2022-11-18|url=http://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/18/was-the-cia-behind-the-jonestown-massacre-2/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240624222351/http://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/18/was-the-cia-behind-the-jonestown-massacre-2/|archive-date=2024-06-24}}</ref><br />
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== Premiership ==<br />
On orders from [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent [[Richard Welch]], [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ|cult]] leader [[Jim Jones]] funded a group of rebels who started [[Strike action|strikes]] and anti-[[Republic of India|Indian]] race riots in February 1962. Jagan declared a state of emergency and had to rely on British forces to restore order, discrediting his government. Jagan lost the next election in December 1964 to pro-CIA candidate [[Forbes Burnham]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
[[Category:Former heads of state]]<br />
[[Category:People targeted by regime change operations]]<br />
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