BURMA LEADER HAS CHANGE OF HEART, ACCEPTS U.S. VISIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500420019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: April 7, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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SUN- T ILIi S
L. 53$,780
S. 661,622
APR 7 1966
By Thomas B. Ross
Sun-Times Bureau
WASHINGTON-The
'White House announced
Wednesday that Gen. No Win,
Burma's neutralist and some-
times anti-American strong-
man, has accepted an invita-
tion to visit President Johnson
next fall.
The acceptance represents a
minur. diplomatic triumph for
the United States, which has
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bored a grudge against the 1 monist neighbor to . the north
United States because of the
activities of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency in his country
in the I -^+~-`--
Accuses CIA
At that time, wni~e serving
as army chief of staff, No Win
repeatedly accused the CIA of
supporting' a band of 12,000
Chinese Nationalist rebels who
STAT
Red China.
A $110,000.000 U.S. aid
program was terminated by
Burma and $84.000,000 in Red ,
hinese aid was accepted.
No Win's planned visit to the
United States was interpreted,
here as a cautious but courage-
ous effort to move out of Pe-
king's?orbit.
fled into Burma when the Visit To India
Communists assumed control He paid a visit to Comnm-
of China. fist China -last July
but bai-
,
t been striving for several years. After moving into power, Ne anced it with a trip to the So-
to break down No Win's hos- Win turned Burma away from .I viet Union in September. In
tility. , generally friendly relations another exercise in strict neu-
The general, who took over with the United States to a trality, he visited both India
Burma's government in a mili- policy of neutrality; slightly and Pakistan last month.
to y coup in 1962, has har- oriented toward his biglom? .j Ne Win's trip here is expect-
ed to be largely ceremonial.
but the President probably will
t;es with, ".-A! Chinese Natio na',-.
tstJ yc %TT'"?.
leassadar \i'illla J Sehald and
accused the United States of
intervening in Burmese affairs.
Sebald, acting on assurances,
from , Washington, denied it
emphatically, but iater learned
that the CIA had, in fact, been
involved without his knowledge,
seek out his views on China
and Viet Nam, No resumption
of U.S. aid is in prospect.
The invitation to Ne Win
has been outstanding since the.
late President John E. Kennedy
offered it shortly after the gen-
eral came to power in 1962.
But No Win, who visited the-'
United States in 1956, balked,
largely out of fear of Peking's
reaction, but also because of
his resentment of the CIA.
Braces U.S. Envoy
At one point during his hat
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