ASIAN FREEDOM LEGION PROPOSED BY SENATOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200330076-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: May 3, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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if the gocertiments of .the Phit
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Eorca announced totthe'world.
that thr.y were prepared top4'r-?fur
mit the recitiitnlrnt of rolun ;~''.
-teens m their coimtrirc tp help t$-.
defend Lao. of Smith Viet Nam,i;ai
or Thailand nr anc other area
that n1a+ he ttitf alenCd by Reds I
thf
imperialism."
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35 natfor - r' net, at the 350-year.. nee
old Unit cr.. of Santo Tomas the
forthe iea>~uc?a seventh annual
conference, Shl
Senator Dodd the keynote is
speaker. attackedhat he called:"VW
the 'Munich psv-hosie of the can
Wester r powers rn :the hbld.ytar {';f
with communJ'm. Ana appealed lade
to Asians to take the initit;t1 a{?th
in the f1ght`, cthout a+attlnK fq}'
the prior consort of the. West
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foreign iiii'tci?~ lCOiin ottt
the Soutl\e st Mma Ties' r Or TO
uaiiizatlanas a inanifet;}, tiotl~thl,
of the tarrne weakness th1t led ce;
to sort ?(sstorls to Nazi ,Gen Lh
many et Munich in 1836. Eb o'.
? - Seri i or'+ Dodd. who ,t le x;
mrnro~r the I'or ign, ' la-?ttee
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