MOVE TO IMPROVE U.S. RELATIONS WITH BURMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500420018-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 9, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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017e' () hi prove U. S i%.R ' ons With Burro
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interpreted as a cautious but courageous': When Ne Win 'came to power he
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els who' fled into Burma when the Corn- '';HChinese ipfluence. He visited Communist)
munists t,ssumed control of China. The China last July and balanced it with a trip
,charge' was iniitiallyl denied by ?the U.S. ` to the ; Soviet, Union .in the , fall. , Last)
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ties of the Central Intelligence A icy in. expected to be largely ceremonial, it rep his country in Me s. A the time, . resents a minor diplomatic triumph fore
while he was army chief of staff, Ne Win "this country. It is unlikely that Ne Wine
repeatedly accused the CIA of supporting~1 ',will abandon his neutral-policy but it is-.,
a band of .12,000 Chinese Nationalist reb> "" believed he wo 1d 141r t b f f R d 1
a military coup. I3e has harbored a.?, )Chula..
grudge against the US because of oftivi- Alth h
Surma, took over the government therein the offer of $84,000,000 frdm Communist,'
General Ne )Yjp,-neutralist and some-' j :north-Red China. 1vIe terminated a $110,- t.
~, N?~.. r~,a ,ULVILU ,uun to visiL,tnis country ly relations with the U.S. and adopted a.,,
k'; Ihas been pending since the late President policy of neutrality slightly oriented to-,
Rennedy offered it shortly after the gen-
eYa1.VAMP to "nun-r in Rr,,,n ;,, InRO ward his bier Communist nel hbor to the,
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