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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000800030038-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: January 5, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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1. SENATOR BIRCH BAYH (D. IND.) CAME TO HQS. ON 5 JANUARY
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EVOLVED INTO GENERAL-OVERVIEW OF INDOCHINA AREA WITH SEPARATE
DISCUSSIONS OF CURRENT SITUATION IN THE PHILJJPPINES, THAILAND,
LAOS, CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM (NORTH AND SOUTH).
2. PHILIPPINE DISCUSSION WAS QUITE CURSORY. WE SKETCHED
HOW SOCIETY WAS STRUCTURED AND THE K D\-IPACT OF ITS ESSENTIALLY
MALAY CULTURE OVERLAID BY THIN SPANISH AND THEN AMERICAN
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INDOCHINA AND THE WORLD BEYOND LOOKED WHEN VIEWED FROM
BANGKOK'S PERSPECTIVE, WE TOUCHED LIGHTLY ON THE INTERNAL
INSURGENCY AND SOMEWHAT MORE EXTENSIVELY ON THE DANGERS THE
THAT GOVERNMENT CLEARLY PERCEIVES IN CHINA'S POSSIBLE INTENTIONS
(A PERCEPTION REINFORCED BY THE CHINESE ROAD) AND/OR NORTH
VIETNAMESE INTENTIONS, PARTICULARLY IF HANOI SHOULD EMERGE
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4. ON LAOS, WE POINTED OUT HOW (AND WHY) THAT COUNTRY'S
MAJOR PROBLEMS WERE ROOTED IN IANOI'S AGGRESSIVE AMBITIONS AND
THE PRESENCE OF NORTH *VIETNAMESE TROOPS. WE ALSO EXPLAINED
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.'WHY THE CURRENT LAO NEGOTIATIONS WERE PROBABLY BEING KEPT
BY THE COMMUNISTS IN A HOLDING PON PATTERN PENDING FURTHER
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE VIETNAM NEGOTIATING ARENA.
5, ON CAMBODIA, WE GAVE A BRIEF SITUATION RUNDOWN TRYING
TO .B ; AS UPBEAT AS POSSIBLE (UNDER TIHE CIRCU iSTANCES) BUT WITHOUT
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6. ON VIETNAM, WE DREW ATTENTION TO THE GVN'S, AND ARVN?S,
LMPRESSIVE REC ORD OF OVERALL, OR NET, PERFORMANCE OVER THE
PAST YEAR, PARTICULARLY SINCE 30 MARCH. WE ALSO NOTED HOW
MUCH INTERNAL, DOMESTIC SUPPORT THIEU HAD GARNERED (EVEN FROM
THOSE SUCH AS AN QUANG WHO NORMALLY OPPOSE HIM) BY VIRTUE OF
HIS STANCE OF INSISTING THAT SOUTH VIETNAM'S LEGITIMATE RIGHTS
BE PROTECTED IN ANY NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT.. FOR OBVIOUS
REASONS WE STAYED AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE FROM THE TOPIC OF
NEGOTIATIONS, BUT DID EXPLAIN HOW HANOI WAS ATTEMPTING TO USE
THE PROCESS OF SETTLEMENT AS A DEVICE FOR EXACERBATING (AND,
IF POSSIBLE, RUPTURING) THE CLOSE BOND BETWEEN SAIGON AND
WASHINGTON WHICH WAS ESSi:,.NTIAL FOR ANY GVN TRYING TO RESIST
COMMUNIST AGGRESSION.
7. SESSION WAS RELAXED AND INFORMAL THROUGHOUT. BAYH
{ VAS LOW KEY AND CORDIAL. AS YOU KNOW, HE IS A LIBERAL
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HIS XIIND ON ANY 13ASIC ISSUE, BUT HIS DEMEANOR WAS CERTAINLY
FRIrTDLY AND ON DEPARTING HE WAS QUITE WARM IN HIS THANKS FOR
THE SESSION.
ABOVE IS F'~ I ONLY SO YOU WILL KNOW LINE TAKEN AND
ATMOSPHERICS HERE SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY DEALINGS WITH BAYH DURING
COURSE OF HIS TRIP. E2, IMPDET, WN-SISM
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=-'` `Stated that between 6 and ?a January, several Members of Foreign Operations
Sub-Conmm.ittee of Senate Appropriations Committee will be travelling to
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