Felix asked US embassy to check office for bugs, probe mystery `basement’

Winston Felix

Amid an intensive operation to capture drug lord Roger Khan, then Police Commissioner Winston Felix visited the US embassy to request a sweep of his office for listening devices and for help in determining if a house linked to Khan had a concealed basement that might have stolen AK-47s and drugs.

The requests were apparently not passed through the usual government to government channels as Felix and officials of the administration had been at odds particularly over a recording that Khan had made public of the