LAOS--SOUVANNA ARRIVES IN FRANCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100080040-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 1999
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: August 26, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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ITEM NO: DATE: 26 AUGUST 1974
SUBJECT: LAOS--SOUVANNA ARRIVES IN FRANCE
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PRIME MINISTER SOUVANNA PHOUMA ARRIVED SAFELY IN PARIS
TODAY, ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS- HE EXPECTS TO SPEND AT LEAST
TWO MONTHS CONVALESCING AT HIS VILLA AT GRASSE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE.
PRIOR TO HIS DEPARTURE FROM VIENTIANE YESTERDAY, SOUVANNA
PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS TURNING OVER THE AFFAIRS OF STATE
TO BOTH COMMUNIST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER PHOUMMI VONGVICHIT AND HIS
NON-COMMUNIST COUNTERPART LEAUM INSISIENGMAY. THIS INJECTS A
NEW VOTE OF UNCERTAINTY INTO THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN
VIENTIANE. SOUVANNA HAD EARLIER NAMED PHOUMI AS THE SOLE "ACTING
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PRIME MINISTER," BUT IN THE END APPARENTLY DECIDED ON A DUUMVIRATE
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