THE CIA MEDDLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R001200900001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 20, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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AMERICANS seem to be the
last to learn what the Central
Intelligence Agency is up to, and
now they are learning about the
CIA's role in Cambodia from a
't-aT LTftMwho had a part in it.
Prime Minister 'fhanh told a
British interviewer, before
attaining his present post, that the
Unfted States paid millions after
1965 to train his own rebel troops.
He said CIA agents assigned to him
assured him of help if existing
government of Prince Norodom
Sihanouk were overthrown and the
rebels came under ]eft-wing attack.
The government was
overthrown in 1970 and that led to a
,
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s vo
ng what
leftist counter-attack joined by amounts to a blank check, and
Sihanouk and that in turn led to a getting reports on Central
Massive American-South Intelligence Agency activity
Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. through the prime minister of
So the Southeast Asia war engulfed Cambodia.
Cambodia, as it had Laos, where
the' CIA also was involved with its
private army. The results of all this
meddling have been to spread a war
without gaining a vestige of victory.
If the meddling alone were not bad
enough, the disasters following it
made it worse.
So far the CIA seems to have
done better in its strictly i
intelligence operations than in its
paramilitary and covert actions,
but not even Congress knows for
sure. Congress might be expected
to approve a standing proposal to
require that the CIA report to it as
well as to the Executive branch.
Instead
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