While reviewing the site statistics yesterday, I noticed I have visitor from Suriname. For those of you lacking geography knowledge, its on the northern coast of South America.
So, I got to thinking, why would somebody in a former dutch colony want to read about submarines? (Then again, who wouldn't, right?)
There is a small link in addition to the U-boat attacks on bauxite freighters.
Back in the 80's, Suriname had the same problems that Grenada had: a local thug kissing up to the reds. Moscow was so excited about the idea of bringing Suriname into the red fold, they even planned a huge embassy and....wait for it....military bases.
Its seems that Cuba wasn't able to provide enough air coverage of the Caribbean and the Soviet Anti-submarine planes wanted another base to better track our brothers in the FHI's (Floating Holiday Inns = SSBN's)
Enter, Ronald Reagan and the Intelligence dream team: Bill Casey, Director of Central Intelligence and National Security Adviser William Clarke who worked behind the scenes to keep the Soviets out of Suriname. Mission accomplished and you never read about it until now. Check out the details at National Review.
I don't know if this is the reason I have a reader in Suriname or not but I salute his blog selection none the less.
1 comment:
Greetings from Suriname! I just read your post here, linked over from the subreport. I actually didn't know all the details in your article, though I was here during that time, so found it very interesting. I am a "sub mom"--my son is a PO on the USS Maine. I'm an American missionary down here. So it made my day to see "Suriname" and "Submarines" together in a headline! Keep up the good blog, LS
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