BURMESE MILITARY MISSION HONORED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190080-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2014
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: July 12, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R00020019008-01
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Mission .Hohored "
, ,BY ,RUTH 'DEAN ''' '. 7 ? Col. Sein said it was- the trz
first time 'he'd ieen his
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' '? brother in nearly a year. The
Two brothers, ,stood 'th7.t4ie last time they were together
receiving line..at a Burmese wae in Rangoon, Burma's
Embassy Party last night. capital; when the, Ambassa-
One was the Ambassador, and dor stopped there en route
the other wee one' of the .to the iented States from
three honor guests, for, whom his former assignment as
the party was given. ? ? Burmese Ainbaasador to Pak-
Burmese' Ambassador and istan.*At that time, the Am-
Mrs. On Sein gave- the small bassador paid. the home visit
evening reception ,,in1 honor princthally Ito see his son,
of a visiting military mis- 1; TerenceMinitiated ,as a tem-
sion from their .obi.intry. porary n'dvice in the 'Buddhist
There was no doubt that one 'priesthood; a custom followed
of the visitors' was the Am- by all' young Burmese ? boys.
passador's younger brother, After the brief noviceship?
Col. Tun. Sein, as. guests .three dais?Terence accom-
going through .the receiving panied his parents here. Last
line remarked on their ,re- month he finished Gordon
semblance.' ? : Junior High School and in
Also in the receiving. line' the fall enters Maret School,
was the head of the military said his father. .
mission, Col. Maung Maung, The military guest's of hon-.
a dapper and pleasant Army, or found many familiar faces
officer who is : director Of among the guests, most of
j
military training for the
Burmese Armed "Forces. Al-'
though . not in 'the line, the
third member of the mission, (
Maj. Maung Maungtka, was i
among the party guests. ' 1
The mission arrived in the ??
United States three weeks 1
ago 'at the invitation of
the Department' of Defense '
to inspect armed forces f
trainirig installations.
The group has been' going
at -a . fast clip ever since. I
Under' the guidance of theW ?
tour (director, Lt. Col. Paull
. Lawson of the .United States
lt, Army', they have visited in-
stallations up and down the',
West Coast,-. Texas and
Georgia before coming here.
1 ? Side Trips' Arranged
But (even their week in
Washington 'is full ? of side
trips. Yesterday it - was ,thel
Aberdeen Proving ? Groundsl
, at the nearby Maryland
ordnance depot, and today
they're off to Norfolk to
visit the Armed Forces Staff
College. Before they take off'
for home on July43,'they'lli
'tour some industries' in New
York State.
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p.
whom were military attaches
from Southeast Asian coun-
tries and Pentagon and
State Department officials
associated with Southeast
-,
Asian affairs.
Likes Tropics ,
Assistant. ?S e c,r?e tar y
State for Far Eastern Af-
fairs and Mrs, J. Graham
Parsons were the' ranking
guests. Also present was the
?
United States Ambassador to
Burma William P. Snow, who
is on home leave. Mr4Snow,
? who is en route to his native
? .Maine to see some of his
family before he again joins -
?Mrs. Snow and four of their
'six children in Rangoon
again, said he found the
;tropics much to, his .liking.
His previous assignments had
been in South.American cap-
itals. some ,in high plateau
regions.
Saying "hello" again to
Ambassador Snow were ..CIA .
DePutLpirtctOr,,,,,alilcrgr
Prcabellwho yiOsited ?
the Snows iff'Rangoont,when
they were' there last year.
? It was also a reunion for
Gen. and Mrs. Graves B.
Erskine and Col. Seth. On
two previous trips to ? the
Orient ,which included 'Ran-
goon as a stop, Col. Sein en-
? tertained the Erskines. Yes-
terday was a. busy day for
the former Marine Corps
general and his wife. Before
coming to the,Burmese party
the Erskihes had been hosts
themselves at a small fare-
well party in their home for
the departing Iraq Armed
Forces Attache and Mrs. Has-
san Nakib.
The Indian Military and
Naval Attache 'and Mrs. Ba-
tra, the latter -& vision in a
navy blue chiffon sari, were
at the party., Also, the Bur-
,mese Military Attache, Col.
Maung Lwin; the Japanese
Defense Attache ? and Mrs.,
Tanaka, .;the `Thai Military
Attache ind Mme.
the Indonesian Military At-
tache, `Col. Soerjpsoerarso,
and the Israeli Military 'At-'
tache and Mrs..Prihar.
There- from ,the 'Pentagon
were ?Rear Admiral, Edward
' O'Donnell. froth 'the ,Interna-
tional. Security, Affairs offide,
2'3with Mrs.. O'Donnell, and Lt..
it"Ccil. Francis T. Devlin 'and
Lt. Col. William R. Farquhar
from the foreign liaison office.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200190080-0