PROVING GROUND FOR THE GUAM DOCTRINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300360067-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: September 1, 1971
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

patriotic forces are painstakingly
taken by the Defence Mhnistry: the
street it stands on is covered with rows
of it, and at its walls are piles of sand-
bags behind which soldiers stand, by
.,ready to man machine-guns. There are
also machine-gun nests at the gates of
camouflaged by its official represeuta- nearly all government offices. Prone
Lives in the Cambodian capital. This time to time people calling at there are
stnner, for Instance, quite a few groups ? carefully searched at gun point. At the
of American stirvicernen were flown
Into 1'nonr Penh from Saigon, but Iu
each case they were dressed as civilians.
Thus "camouflaged," the visitors ware
press centre a representative of the
military command cautions Journalists
that it Is risky to take photographs In
the streets-a nervous soldier may
then. deposited in various- parts of the open fire without warning. A state of
country by U.S. Embassy- helicopters, emergency has been declared in the
This, operation, directed. by the Yenta- , capital, for guerilla units have sur?
gon and the CIA, is kept secret from rounded It and by night approach Its
American and world public Opinion. suburbs, No one may enter the city
,What Is more, It Is conducted in
defiance of the ban imposed by the U.S.
Congress on American land operations
In Cambodia. But In Pncln Penh Itself,
after sunset; all roads are blocked by
government soldiers who huddle fear-
fully around ? the American . M_1f3
the notorious Artillery batteries have been mount
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