Grenada was the target. The aim was to overthrow the revolution led by the New Jewel Movement and to return the ousted tyrant, Eric Gairy, to power. Mercenary leader Michael Perdue of Houston, Texas, began plotting his counterrevolution as soon as he read published accounts of the revolution in the spring of 1979. First he sought out Gairy, met him in San Diego, and put forward this proposition: for a price, Perdue would overturn Maurice Bishop's government and reinstate Gairy as prime minister. Gairy agreed and told Perdue to proceed.
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