USIA SURVEY Memorandum of Meeting of 4 May 1954 1778 Pennsylvania Avenue, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00750A000100140249-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 249
• Publication Date: May 4, 1954
• Content Type: MIN

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Meeting of 4
A va-vae, 4:00 to 4:00 p. .
T. Daniel MOOT04, P O#
1. Mr. "*or* Was assign
as PAO is a small town of 40, 000 in a land IS(
of -with five ssvse local s oysees. T
sal and frequently substituted for the Consul.
which 'iaa l ai d contains errs Americans-
American missionaries.
library and the o o of persons program.
Tho town
eewip ally
aware of any local use of VOA? altho%h local radios do pick
s*a up
is press activity was very
s to so eaf
i a post is at a very elementary
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'eawerli g the Thai/mind.
(a) government by local provincial yeti
I &W (b) a relatively fiaw sssie ials
as the main "nuA rro of opinion. " The
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Scefoltys Was *polo
"pact* of ataintaining *q,
posting (*"*tics and pro
4. lie stated that xuitsr was helpM but by no weans
adequate for as fall understanding of the p pie a1-1t ugh It
had
some i rae ti+ on ail pertinent subjects. Wises the
raps which he Malt could best be filled by
ch. He .cpressed doubts, however, that
r*tandi of the Thai to know bow
He felt Tbaeila-nd's friendship for the U. S.
tpht obtain and estsd that
of resistance to the Cass Cysts
impressed that Mr, Moor* thinks the Thai
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He described
from Embassy pers
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