Il est temps de briser un mythe sur un des scandales les plus retentissants su siècle dernier. Tous les ingrédients étaient la: Une secte dirigée par un fou, l'apparition de la CIA, laquelle était sous les feux des commissions parlementaires américaines Pike et Church, sans oublier l'assassinat, rare dans les annales, d'un parlementaire américain, Leo Ryan, venu enquêter sur place, au Guyana. Apparition de la CIA? Tout a fait. Parmi les personnes qui accompagnèrent le parlementaire Léo Ryan dans sa visite du camp de la secte de Jim Jones, se trouvait un dénommé Richard Dwyer.
De gauche a droite: Jim Jones, Charles Garry et Richard Dwyer
Or selon le site "Seize the night" (Je cite ce site mais il y en a d'autres): "Dwyer was an agent of the CIA. Richard Dwyer was a CIA agent For his part, Dwyer neither confirms nor denies that he was a CIA agent, but he was identified in the 1968 edition of Who's Who inthe CIA. A month after the massacre the San Mateo Times, a Bay Areanewspaper (hometown paper of Leo Ryan), reported that "State Department officials acknowledge that a CIA agent was dispatched to Jonestown within minutes of the airstrip assault." Dwyer denied to the Times that he was there at the time. According to one report, Dwyer's next stop after Guyana was Grenada". Notons que ce site n'est pas le seul: Une très sérieuse dépêche de UPI du 04.08.1981 (reproduite en fin d'article) affirme elle aussi que Dwyer est un officier de la CIA tout comme deux autres personnes dont elle donne le nom.
Reprenons les éléments. Selon l'auteur, Dwyer est un officier de la CIA car identifié comme tel par un ouvrage de Julius Mader, ouvrage sorti en Allemagne de l'Est (ca l'auteur oublie de le préciser) et intitulé "Who's who de la CIA". Un peu léger de se baser sur une seule source d'information non recoupée. Et si des membres du Département d'Etat ont reconnus que un officier de la CIA était présent, cela ne prouve pas automatiquement que il s'agissait de Dwyer. Surtout que aucune enquête sérieuse ni même la CIA n'ont jamais reconnus ont constatés que Dwyer était un officier du renseignement américain.
Il devenait par conséquent nécéssaire de déclencher des recherches, collecter des informations, analyser, pour tirer la situation au clair, en démarrant par la technique la plus simple pour identifier un officier présumé de la CIA:Sa biographie. C'est le Washington Post du 31.08.1991 , assisté du site Namebase, qui permettent d'en savoir plus.
Né vers 1933, Richard Alan Dwyer obtient un diplôme d'administration publique a l'université de Princeton, a l'école des affaires publiques et internationales, avant d'entrer au Département d'Etat en 1957. Dans le cadre de sa carrière, il a servi en Syrie, de 1960 a 1963, en Egypte de 1963 a 1966, en Bulgarie de 1970 a 1972 , au Tchad de 1976 a 1977 et était en poste en Guyana en 1978. Notons que selon le Washington Post (ce détail a de l'importance) , aux deux derniers postes a l'étranger, il était chargé d'affaires et chef de mission adjoint. Ensuite, il est consul général en Martinique. Il quitte le service actif en 1984 et décède le 29.08.1991.
Maintenant utilisons la méthode du "spotting" des opérateurs de la CIA pour vérifier si Dwyer correspond aux critères du chef de station, ou du moins d'un "opérateur" de la CIA. Est ce que Dwyer a utilisé une couverture d'un officier de la CIA? Réponse négative. Malgré nombre de recherches, je n'ai jamais vu un officier de la CIA utiliser la couverture de chargé d'affaires. Les "couvertures" des officiers traitants de la CIA sont données par le Département d'Etat, le Ministère des affaires étrangères US, les officiers de la CIA ne peuvent se les attribuer. Or jamais un officier de la CIA n'a occupé cette couverture de chargé d'affaires.Sa biographie ressemble beaucoup plus a celle d'un classique diplomate, loin du fantasme des "espions de la CIA a chaque coin de rue". Ajoutons-y que la couverture d'un officier de la CIA dans une ambassade permet de montrer son imoortance hiérarchique. Un officier de la CIA qui est officiellement conseiller d'ambassade (ou parfois 1er secrétaire d'ambassade) est sans aucun doute le chef de poste. L'officier CIA clairement identifié dans un pays qui a la couverture de 1er secrétaire, par exemple, est son adjoint, et ainsi de suite. Si Dwyer était "chargé d'affaire" et "chef de mission adjoint" (poste diplomatiquement plus élevé que conseiller) il devrait être le chef du poste de la CIA a Jonestown. Or et d'une je n'ai jamais vu aucun officier de la CIA occuper une telle couverture, et de deux, le chef de poste de la CIA a Jonestown a l'époque était clairement identifié: Il se nomme James Adkins. Cet officier de la CIA a la carrière bien remplie terminera sa carrière avec le scandale de l'Irangate sur le dos..
Copyright 1991 The Washington Post The Washington Post August 31, 1991, Saturday, Final Edition SECTION: METRO; PAGE B4 LENGTH: 337 words HEADLINE: Foreign Service Officer Richard A. Dwyer Dies SERIES: Occasional BODY: Richard Alan Dwyer, 58, a retired Foreign Service officer who received the State Department's Award for Valor for his actions in Guyana during the 1978 Jonestown massacre, died Aug. 29 at Sibley Memorial Hospital of complications after gall bladder surgery. Mr. Dwyer joined the Foreign Service in Washington in 1957, and he retired in 1984. In retirement, he had been an investment adviser. At his death, he was director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of the National Association of Investors Corporation and led its computer group. A resident of Washington, he was born in Evanston, Ill., and graduated from Dartmouth College. He received a master's degree in public administration from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His Foreign Service career included posts in Syria, Egypt and Bulgaria. He had been deputy chief of mission and charge d'affairs at U.S. embassies in Chad and Guyana. His last post before retiring was consul general for the French Caribbean in Martinique. His Award for Valor was for action taken in November 1978, when members of the cult settlement at Jonestown in Guyana attacked a group led by Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.) at the Port Kaiturna airstrip, which was the supply point for the settlement. Ryan, who was investigating reports that some of his constituents were being coerced to remain in the settlement, was killed in the attack, as were three television journalists. Mr. Dwyer, who had been Ryan's embassy escort, was wounded, but nevertheless led the survivors into the nearby jungle, where they hid from further attack. They were rescued the next day, the same day the mass suicide that killed more than 900 members of the cult settlement was discovered. Mr. Dwyer was a member of DACOR (Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired) and St. Thomas Apostle Catholic Church in Washington. Survivors include his wife of 33 years, Sara Height Dwyer, and two children, Elizabeth and Timothy Dwyer, all of Washington.
Copyright 1981 U.P.I. United Press International August 4, 1981, Tuesday, AM cycle SECTION: Domestic News LENGTH: 420 words HEADLINE: Layton's lawyers ask for CIA documents BYLINE: By SPENCER SHERMAN DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO BODY: The question of CIA involvement in the 1978 Peoples Temple mass murder-suicide surfaced in the conspiracy trial of Larry Layton Tuesday when defense attorneys argued for access to secret intelligence files. U.S. District Judge Robert F. Peckham interrupted jury selection to hear arguments from defense attorney Tony Tamburello and CIA Attorney Page Moffet on releasing intelligence files concerning the shooting of Congressman Leo Ryan. Tamburello said he should be allowed access to CIA files on the tragedy because ''we feel that the CIA's role was active in preventing any intervention by government authorities'' to halt the shooting and the deaths of 914 temple members. Tamburello asked the intelligence agency to reveal whether U.S. Ambassador to Guyana John Burke and aides Richard McCoy, Daniel Weber and Richard Dwyer were CIA operatives in Guyana. Tamburello charged the government with ignoring reports that Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones was running a ''concentration camp'' in the jungle because of the CIA's role in propping up the government of Forbes Burnham. The cult headquarters was strategically located near the disputed border of Guyana and Venezuela and, Tamburello charged, the Peoples Temple Agricultural Compound was used as a buffer zone between the Guyanese and Venezualians. Moffet, speaking on a conference line from Washington D.C., said he was not sure ''how any CIA involvement would relate to the guilt or innocence of Larry Layton.'' Tamburello seemed to argue the CIA's failure to warn of an impending tragedy made them a party to it through the legal theory of contributory negligence which places liability on someone who negligently causes a crime. ''I believe the CIA is directly responsible for creating the Jonestown situation by allowing Mr. Jones, through the government of Guyana, from acting the way he did,'' Tamburello said. Layton is charged with conspiring to murder Rep. Ryan, D-Calif., and U.S. Chief of Missions Dwyer at the Port Kaituma airstrip. Three journalists and a temple defector also were killed in the attack. Layton can be charged with conspiring in the attempt on Dwyer's life because a diplomat is an internationally protected person, allowing the government to prosecute for a crime which occurs outside the United States. ''If Richard Dwyer was with the CIA it might very well effect whether he is an internationally protected person,'' Tamburello said. Peckham said he would consider the question and issue an opinion later.