EX-GUERRILLA FIGHTER NAMED TO U.S. FAR EASTERN POST

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March 14, 1963
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0 0 BALTIMORE SUl, MAR 14 1963 Sanitized - Approved For Rel CPYRGHT Saniti Ex-Guerrilla Fighter Named ' To U.S. Far Eastern Post Washington, Affairs. )aign, has been n nom Assistan Secretary of State for Fair asteri guerrilla fighter in Merrill's 'Ma -auders during the Burma cam At war's end he was- in China vith an OSS team liberating American prisoners of war at jungles during World War If. He later jPiped the Office of Stra- tegic Services headed by William J. Donovan and commanded a in guerrilla action. Hilsman, who has worked close- ly with Harriman, is regarded in the'State Department as an expert on: counter-insurgency operations. West Faint Graduate A 1943 graduate of West Point. and the Philippines-46 angry over British ptans to. form i the - Ialay- sian Federation in-. ugust?, merg- ing the North $or`nep.and Sarawak colonies" ndO lg1 f ief, a British protectotjate, with;now-independent Malaya a, d f ingapure. Indonesia is threatening to sup- port any indtgen4us- rebellion that may break Out in North Borneo. It is suspected of having given en- couragedient to last; year's abor- tive xebgllion in Brupei. The 250,- 00d=man Tndot esian army is skilled now are sup~[t `uth Vietnam, against tha,Viet "ong jungle fighters. The prospect of guerrilla war- fare breaking,'out of Borneo can- uerrilla operations are figuring rominently in American affairs lad been forecast. Guerrilla Warfare Key Hilsman's promotion from the lirectorship of the State Depart- nent's Bureau o ? Iteliigence and vho had held Under Secre- ary's post, nominated Am- today that George C. McGhee, By PHILIP POTTER [Washington Bureau of The Sunl March 13-Roger - s is On the Philippines. The new' Assistant Secretary anwd,o school in Manila as a oy. He now holds a Vale doc-, FOIAb3b CPYRGHT an has 'worked with the esearch, for the . Library, of C-p- e is nevertheless known as an "ird Action" Urged He has urged "hard action" by American military engaged the South Vietnamese forces eeking to root out the Viet Cong, ntelligence and Research Bureau, sident Kennedy's respect for rs he wrote: anticipating So- moves and analyzing p1ob- reactions. , He was'sent wit`tl Harriman'last ecember on the trip to New ftme Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spute. In 1946, Hilsman, married a hey have four children, $ticceeding him as director of telligence and research for' the Close Ties Key , . The White House left to?; the arriman's replacing Ghee, ho was lauded by P eesi4ent ennedy today for having "given r nearly seventeen years in a Mr. Kennedy said he had asked cGhee to leave his present post 01 R000300280041-0