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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S02149R000200240009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 8, 1965
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2002/05/07 : CIA-RDP78S02149R000200240009-4
8 December 1965
INFORMAL MEMORANDUM FOR D/ORR
1. Per DCI request, two memoranda covering Cambodia's role in the
Vietnam war are required, one immediately, one with all deliberate speed.
a. A brief, typescript Memorandum for the Director detailing
everything we know about Chinese Communist shipping into Sihanoukville
(such things as amounts, types and frequency of arrivals over the past
several years). Since DCI is convinced that Cambodia is an important
waystation in logistics pipeline to Communist forces in SVN, this thesis
needs to be addressed and the arguments pro and con analyzed. DUE IN O bDI
BY COB WEDNESDAY 8 December.
I --WON
. A memorandum theorizing on how the Communists could use Cambodia
in support of the war if they went all-out. This will require some imagination.
Having done this$ a contracting section exhaustively detailing all that is known
or suspected about Communist use of Cambodia will be required. In support
of this you should lean heavily on NPIC and OCI analysis
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any available DIA research, and request of n Saigon a station
assessment of the extent to which Cambodia is being utilized by the PAVN and)
VC. No deadline for this paper has been set, but it should be completed
with all deliberate speed.
TAT
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