BACKGROUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000300250005-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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Geneva agreement regarding Laos provides:
1. Regroupment of Pathet Lao forces
in two northern provinces.
2. Free access between the two province.
in a corridor bordered in the
north by the Laos-Vietnam border.
Southern boundry not specified.
3. Reintegration of Pathets into
"national life" of Laos through
negotiations.
4. General elections in 1955.
5. Communist participation in the
administration of regroupment
zones pending the elections.
6. Establishment of mixed Commissions
to handle regroupment.
7. Establishment of an ICC team for
Laos to oversee implementation
of t.rue.e,
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8. Placed obstacles in way of
military alliances, banned foreign
bases other than existing French
bases, limited foreign aid of all
kinds.
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