ACTIVITIES OF PEOPLE'S VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION (PVO)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800270011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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A mer'tinrr of the Rangoon District People?s Volunteer Crganizati~n (PVO)
leaders was held In Thetkala,, 22 miles south southeast of Pegu .nd the
Headquarters of the Lower Burma PVO on 1 July 1950. Rangoon District
P`.r0 leaders present were :
Bo Nn"TT.ATT MAUTTG
Bo YE XHIN
Bo HLA "OE
Po OffN PE
Po AUNG MIN (aka PO TAW)
Bo TEZA (aka IHAIN TIN)
Bo THA DUN
2. The meeting discussed Bo LA YATTTG's activities in Rangoon in the matter of
a PVO rapprochement with the Government and decided that any Rc'igoon
District organization of the PVO raised by Bo LA YAUNG should:
(a) Be led by ex-detenu or ex-underground PVO leaders only.
(b) Ac-ept Marxism as its political creed.
(c) Work in harmony with ^nd render all support to the underground
Rangoon District PVO.*
On 2 July 1950, Bo NYUIIrr MAUNG, accompanied by Do FILA MOE, Bo Yfa KIlIN and
Do OlTN PE left Thetkala for M:amauk (30 miles southeast of Pegu), to meet
leaders of the Lower Burma Headquarters of the BCP and to furnir:h to them
reasons for the increased defection of Lower Burma and Rangoon s"1istrict
PVOrs to 4he Government. It was decided that the party should later visit
Daik.-U to encourage support for the People's Democratic Front (F'DF) and to
r,:_ist any attempts the part of the Government to induce the;;: to desert.
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Flo ?1YUNT MATT TC is rA ^uted to be discouraged over the increasing numbers of
PVO desertions in Lowr'r Burma. to the Government camp and also because of
the prevailing dissension among YVO leaders in lower Burma. He Is also
renorted to be preparing to return to Central Burma and has already made
provisional arrangements to leave Bo HLA MOE and Bo YE KHIN in charge of
the Lower Burma PVO? These are regarded by him as the most trus-'."Orthy
PVO2 . ys in Lower Burma who are sunnorting the PDF.
M Cor!men_t. These resolutions defy explanation unless they are in-
tended as no?~rt: for r,ecetiat iorl between tl-_ },?:i rgrour:. 1 in, :ion District
PVO led by Bo NYU41T MAUITO on the one hand and Bo LA YAUNG on .he other.
If the latter is anxious to extablish himself as the foremost leader of
the PVO and to ingratiate himself '.rith the Government as bein,: the
individual chiefly instrumental in attracting the PVO once rio_'e into the
A'F T, folds the cons iderr t ions implicit in the three points enumerated
are i of likely +o nrrive much of a stumioll'n bio4k to h i. It is equally
possible that, these negotiations are designed as an opportunt"y for the
BCP penetration of the PVO led by Bo LA YAUNG. The record of Bo NYU1T
MAUNG, who is concurrently the leader of the Lower Burma PVO r,.nd of the
uridargro-L,nd Rangoor District PVO, leaves little doubt that he is a very
cicse BCP sympath1zer, if not an under-cover member of that pkc.rty.:
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