HILL TO PROBE CAMBODIA STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400040013-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 25, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/11/21 :CIA-RDP75Aa
"9040013-4
THE EVENING STAR DATE PAGE
Hill to Probe
Cambodia Story
United Press International
1Sen Stuart 4a..D-
Mo.. says t e Senate Armed"
ill
into Wachin nn Star-
News report that the United
ct^tes is nrganirinv a par-
amilitary operation in
ramhndia similar to that
run hN the CIA in Laos for a
-n.mhP off years.
The report was filed from
Svay Rieng, Cambodia, yes-
terday by Tammy Arbuc-
kle, special correspondent
of Thestar-News.
Arbuckle reported Ameri-
can personnel are staffing a
program in the Cambodian
countryside "with paramili-
tary overtones and the po-
tential for a U.S.-run pri-
vate army on the Laos mod-
el." He said the program is
two months old and has 10
Americans stationed semi-
permanently in Cambodian
province capitals working
with local guerrilla teams.
The report said China
Airlines, a private compa-
ny, provides support for the
American-directed paramil-
itary teams.
Symington acting chair-
man of the Armed Services
Comlruttee, sal e p ans an
i v ai into Me ro
" s soo as possible."
difficult to under-
etanci why, at this late date
in the Indochina war, and
with - total n to direct
ited States involvement
1~3, the
iighting,o tonree
ayya3.r a derision of
rhic character has been'!
b4gsv in Phnom.Penh.
"Vey frankly thy're
S s one source sael
Sen. aro t. Hug es,
D-Iowa, also expressed
made with respect to our
jGii.,l;omPnt in am la,"
he said.
,S" j hnmas F_ Eaejeoil,
n_Mn said toda thead
ministration is lea Vo-
1atin law if civt Ian
advisers are. indeed, as-
signed to rarabndia.
Among specific provisions
barring such actions enact-
ed'into law over the past
few years, Eagleton said, is
one added to a 1971 Foreign
Aid Act prohibiting the use
of appropriated funds for
U.S. advisers "to or for
Cambodia military forces in
Cambodia."
"If these reports are
true," he said, "they not
only expose a discrepancy
between word and deed, but
a discrepancy between deed
and law as well."
sinti ennrrecin Washing-
tnnn rit-mied into yesterday
~at the Americans working
Wie'an provinces
amore directing paramilitary
operations. The sources said
the CIA has established
new American spy network
in 13111 aw Tisni'dk-
ing rpnnrte to the U.S.Vem-
about the re ort,
Approved For Release 200c1Srlih+i~tiltii~~~lQAF
to put an end to these se-
cret, unconstitutional
.:rare "-
380R000400040013-4
4