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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300280041-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: March 14, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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BALTIMORE SUl, MAR 14 1963
Sanitized - Approved For Rel
CPYRGHT
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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
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