Defence Board Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon approached the US Embassy for help to track guns that he believed were illegally imported and later ‘stolen’ along with AK-47s from an army storehouse in 2006.
According to diplomatic notes from then US Ambassa-dor Roland Bullen, released via WikiLeaks, Luncheon suggested that the five automatic Baretta pistols were never intended for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF). “Instead, some unknown purchasers of the weapons arranged for the military to import and hold them until a warehouse “theft” could be arranged to get them out,” Bullen explained. He said Luncheon expressed deep concern that he did not know how long the situation could have been going on and “referred repeatedly to the weapon smugglers’ “nexus with the military.””
Luncheon had called the March 3, 2006 meeting with Bullen on short notice to discuss the theft of weapons from the