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OP, Luncheon controls Intelligence Agency
Dec 01, 2012 News
– Luncheon says Stabroek News reporters lied to get in
The Office of the President and Dr. Roger Luncheon manages the National Intelligence Unit, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Luncheon himself. Dr. Luncheon chairs the Central Intelligence Committee.
He said that no head has been yet identified for the National Intelligence Agency and as such, authority for the managing of the agency is reposed in the Office of the President and him, Luncheon.
The Cabinet Secretary said that due to budgetary constraints, certain “developments” slated for the agency have been delayed.
The issue as to who heads the Agency came into focus this week when Police, acting on a complaint by Dr. Luncheon, launched an investigation into how reporters of the independent daily Stabroek News gained access to the agency’s building
The Guyana Press Association (GPA) said that the move was an attempt to intimidate journalists.
Police questioned the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Anand Persaud, and asked for statements from the two reporters. In addition, the newspaper’s driver was held briefly and his car was also impounded at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).
The agency building is located in the compound of Castellani House, which houses the National Art Gallery. The entrance to the agency is the same entrance to the Art Gallery.
Dr. Luncheon said that on arriving at the facility, the reporters said that they gained approval from Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, but Rohee denied that he approved any such visit.
“Our investigations have established beyond any doubt on our side that indeed they did say that the minister sent them,” Luncheon stated.
He said that the Police involvement in the matter has to do with the “the very critical importance” of the unit and “to disabuse minds out there that they indeed can undertake a simple jaunt into the NIC, and use the minister’s name at will for purposes unclear and unknown to us.”
However, Luncheon said that no law was broken.
“Anywhere else in the world where the headquarters of the intelligence centre of a nation is approached under such circumstances it would be most unlikely that the authorities would baptise, condone, ignore such an event.”
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