MEMO FOR MR. NELSON FROM PATTIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020016-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
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I eft the attached for your approval.
These are the questions Harrington asked and
attached are the proposed answers. Neither
Cary nor Shackley ha " any problems. They wou
like to get this to to soonest.
APPROVE DISAPPROVE
P. S. I am to get these back to
once you have seen.
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6. What U. S. intelligence activities, if any, were conducted in
or over )\off the shores of Cambodia subsequent to the Khmer Rouge
take over in April 1975, and prior to the seizure of the Mayaguez? Were.
any such activities known to have been detected or terminated by
Cambodia?
7. What covert actions, if any, were und.erta).cen by the U. S. ,
either directly or indirectly, to disrupt, destabilize, or otherwise
interfere in the, internal affairs of Cambodia subsequent to Khmer Rouge
take over in April 1975, and prior to the .iz ,seizure of the Mayaguez?
Were any such activities known to have been detected or terminated by
Cambodia? If so, and-if known, in what manner were they detected
or terminated?
S. STAT
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Answer to Question #6
The Mayaguez was not a "spy ship." it was not
engaged in y intelligence activities. -#3-F c-oerr'sle the
U.S. is continually gathering intelligence on a world-
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thrust of question #6 appears to be erict?ed
wide basis. he
-- Ton f whether U.S. intelligence activities
might have been a provocation for the action taken by a
Cambodian vessel in siezing the Mayaguez. No such activities
were conducted in or on or from off the shores of Cambodia
within the time period specified.
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We know of no such activity. We understand, further,
j 1 l 1r\ ( r- N U 3~.(lw~:~ r) o f-t 1 t -
that~~ iiy covert actio n would have been reported to the Committe in A r) 'I
conformance with section 32"of the Foreign Assistance Act as amended,
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