A September, 1974 US diplomatic cable described the sale of the Guyana Graphic by the Thompson Group to the state as a forced one and cites the then PNC government’s “harassment” of the newspaper’s employees as a key factor.
The cable released on the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks said that a top Graphic official had told US embassy personnel that the “purchase was by forced sale”.
The cable by then Ambassador Max V Krebs to the US State Department said that the Graphic had been