SUGGESTED REPLY TO(Sanitized) FROM SENATOR ROBERT P. GRIFFIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100010041-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: July 8, 1970
• Content Type: LETTER

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8AL1970
Thank you for your letter of 19 June 1970 enclosing an article
referring to defoliation in Cambodia and to the CIA.
As you may know, CIA does not publicly comment on reports
concerning its activities. On the assumption that it would be of interest
to you, I am enclosing a pamphlet which *poll* out the statutes from
which this policy flows.
Concerning the inference that CIA was involved in the Cambodian
coup, the President in his 30 June 1970 report states "It was the govern-
by Prince Sihanouk and ratified by the Cambodian
National Assembly--not a group of usurpers--which overthrow hire with
the approval of the National Assembly. The United States had neither
connection with, nor knowledge of, these events. t' Senator Mansfield,
who has been quite close to the situation in Southeast Asia for some time,
had earlier said, according to newspaper reports, that he was certain
the CIA did not play any part in Prince Sihanouk' s overthrow.
I appreciate your writing to me concerning this matter.
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