MALAYSIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000800260010-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Content Type: CABLE

V
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/12/21 : CIA-RDP08CO1297R000800260010-7
ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED BY AT
ACTION UNIT
RF. FILE . VR .
2 1Z
DISTRICT (AFP, VIP).
MALAYSIA
14. MALAYSIAN ARMY SAYS IT HAS FOUND COMMUNIST GUERRILLA
'CAMP IN JUNGLES ONLY 10 MILES OUTSIDE IPOH. NEWS
CORRESPONDENTS WERE GIVEN LOOK AT CAMP'-- REPORTEDLY
ONE OF LARGEST UNCOVERED RECENTLY -- If WHAT GUIDES
SAID WAS EFFORT TO EMPHASIZE GOVT. SUCCESSES AGAINST
COMMUNISTS. DOCUMENTS SEIZED AT CAMP AND ELSEWHERE
SHOWED GUERRILLAS. WERE ORIENTED TOWARD-CHINA, ACCORDING
HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER GHAZALI (PHINQ).
15. AP'S SPENCER DAVIS REPORTS FOPECAST IN REPORT
TO PACIFIC BASIN ECONOMIC COUNCIL THAT NATIONS BORDERrNG
PACIFIC, INCLUDING US AND JAPAN, APE LIKELY TO EXTEND'
THEIR CLAIMS TO TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION FROM 3 T0; 12
MILES AT FORTHCOMING LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE. REPORT
FOUND IT ALMOST CERTAIN THAT AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NZ'
AND US WILL SEEK TO EXPAND CONTROL OVER FISHERIES,
RESOURCES OFF THEIR COASTS DURING CONFERENCE. JAPAN
REPORTEDLY WILL OPPOSE EXPANSION OF ECONOMIC JURISDICTION
BEYOND 12-MILE LIMIT. REPORT, SUBMITTED BY K.C. CALE,
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF AUSTRALIAN COMPANY GOLLIN HOLDINGS,
SAID AUSTRALIA WILL CLAIM EXCLUSIVE-ECONOMIC JURISDICTION
OVER SEAS AND SEABED OUT TO 200-MILE LIMIT FROM ITS
COAST OR OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LIMIT, WHICHEVER
IS GREATER, AND NZ LIKELY TO SUPPORT 200-1,ILE FIGURE.
US BELIEVED PREPARED TO RECOGNIZE MAXIMUM LIMIT OF
12 NAUTICAL MILES, CONDITIONED ON AGREEME.AT TO PERMIT
FREE AND UNIMPEDED TRANSIT THROUGH STRAIT .:\AND ARCHIPELAGOS
USED FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. ONE OF REASONS FOP
US QUALIFICATION IS THAT SOME 115 STRAITS AROUND WORLD
WILL FALL WITHIN TERRITORIAL SEAS IF ,TERRITORIAL LIMIT
IS EXTENDED WORLDWIDE TO 12 MILES (WP).
REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN
ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/12/21 : CIA-RDP08CO1297R000800260010-7
 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/12/21: CIA-RDP08CO1297R000800260010-7
TOTAL COPIES RUN BY
CABLE SEC DISSEM BV PER
THAN
CONFI?~ 1 REPRODUCTION BS PROHIBITED
ISSUING OFFICE IS PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED
ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED BY AT 7.
16. LAT'S MCARTHUR (MAY 13) IN SAIGON'TCITES "PRIVATE
COMMUNICATION FROM DIPLOMATIC SOURCES TN HANOI" THAT
VO NGUYEN GIAP, WHO DROPPED FROM PUBLIC VI),W ABOUT
SIX MONTHS AGO, REAPPEARED IN HANOI AT ANNUAL CEREMONIES
MARKING 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF FALL OF DIE.N BIEN PHU.
SOURCES SAY GIAP HAD BEEN UNDER MEDICAL TREATMENT
IN USSR AND HAS NOT FULLY RECOVERED FROM SERIOUS ILLNESS.
IT IS TRADITIONAL FOR GIAP TO GIVE MORALE-BUILDING
MIL ASSESSMENT ON ANNIVERSARY. THERE ARE INDICATIONS
THAT COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP WAS ANXIOUS TO INSURE GIAP'S
PRESENCE THIS YEAR AS ANSWER TO SPECULATION THAT HE
HAD BEEN SULKING AND IN DISFAVOR WITH OTHER POLITBURO
MEMBERS. HE RETURNED FROM MOSCOW EARLY THIS MONTH,
TRAVELLING UNDER ASSUMED NAME, AND SLIPPED BACK INTO
HANOI WITHOUT FANFARE. SINCE HIS RETURN, THERE HAS
BEEN NO EXPLANATION FOR HIS ABSENCE NOR ANY PUBLIC
INDICATION THAT HIS INFLUENCE HAS WANED.
MCARTHUR SEES INDICATIONS THAT HANOI MAIL POLICY WILL
MOPE THAN EVER BE DETERMINED BY COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP,
NOTING THAT TWO WEEKS BEFORE GIAP'S RETURN, POLITBURO
REVEALED THAT ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF VAN TIEN DUNG HAD
BEEN PROMOTED TO FULL FOUR-STAR GENERAL (A RANK PREVIOUSLY
HELD BY GIAP ALONE) AND RAISED TO FULL MEMBERSHIP
IN POLITBURO. IT IS NOW EVIDENT THAT DUNG -IDENTIFIED
AS PROTEGE OF PARTY CHAIRMAN LE DUAN HAS BEEN DIRECTING
FORCE IN MIL AFFAIRS FOR PAST SEVEN MONTHS.
17. NY POST (MAY 14) REFERS TO VC BREAKING OFF CONFERENCES
WITH SVN9 EXPRESSING VIEW THAT INDEFINITE SUSPENSION
OF CONFERENCES SEEMS LIKELY TO BE FOLLOWED BY EVEN
MORE INTENSE WARFARE. SUPPORTS SENATE DECISION TO
REFUSE RISE IN US MILITARY SUPPORT FOR SAIGON.
1B. GLOBE 'S CPOCKER SNOW (MAY 12) REPORTS FROM
ZAMBOANGA THAT PHIL AUTHORITIES ALLEGE THEY HAVE
PROOF THAT LIBYA'S KADDAFI AND ?SABAH'S DArU r 1USTAPHA
AIDED AND ABETTED MOSLEM REBELS-WITH ARMS AND MONEY.
AUTHORITIES TOLD NEWSMEN PROOF CANNOT BE.REVEALED
2 i_2 -,5 7
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/12/21: CIA-RDP08C01297R000800260010-7