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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone identified himself as Tom Denley and said he was recruiting a force of mercenaries to stage a coup in Suriname, a tiny (pop. 400,000) South American country that was formerly Dutch Guiana. Each man, Denley said, would be paid $500 a week during the operation, plus a $1 million bonus if the coup succeeded. Unbeknown to Denley, the man on the other end of the line was an FBI agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plots: Crossing Up a Coup D'Etat | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...Denley had shown the agent a contract with a mysterious Dutch organization, the Ansus-Foundation, to overthrow the Surinamese government. He and his henchmen apparently planned to pose as financiers interested in opening a bank and then kidnap several of the country's leftist leaders. The FBI agent later agreed to provide ten mercenaries along with various weapons and join up with the six soldiers of fortune recruited by Denley. Last week FBI and Customs Service agents arrested 14 individuals, including Denley, a former U.S. Customs officer. Agents found 13 handguns, two semiautomatic rifles, two shotguns and 1,000 rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plots: Crossing Up a Coup D'Etat | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...Denley Chew '87, president of the Harvard Asian-American Association, refused to comment...

Author: By Mark M. Robbins, | Title: Limit on Minorities Denied | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...Asian administrators. That's a concern of ours," said Denley Chew '87, president of the Asian American Association, a student group...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Why Has She Departed? | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

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