POSITIVE STEPS TO AID CAMBODIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-511-4-12-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 15, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM: Henry A. Kissinger,
SUBJECT: Positive Step 4's Aid dia
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As you r.qu,.t.d, there follows a report on the positive steps
since jun* 18 which have been taken by the various U.S. Government
*genet** te provide assistance to Cambodia.
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-- Arrangements have been made to provide r
ter* to the Cambodians to broadcast into areas o
ambedia which Radio Cambodia presently cannot reach.
Atka EC-121 will be used temporarily ter this purpose.
-- The Indonesians have ofter*d18 qoo Altos.
U.S. technicians arIndonesiarive 8 to study
conversion of the Bandung anamunition plant to handle
AK-47 ammunition.
-- The i.11.!_le.itt have oftsrsii $2 million in bumanitaTiaz
aid; we will attempt to stimulate more.
-- The GRC ha. reportedly offered to furnish light and
medium weapons to equip two divisions. We are
considering this.
Efforts are being made to stimulate aid from Austr
(communications equipment) and New Z *land.
-- 970 individual and 30 crew-oerved captured weapons
have been turned over by .ARVI1 to Cambodisn forces
along with 37,000 rounds of ammunition.
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950 individual and 250 crew-served captured weapons
under U.S. control are ready for delivery when the
ability of the YANK to use them hes been doterminod.
CINCPAC and MACV hay* been directed to work closely
with our Defense Attache in Phnom Penh to provide as
much captured material as can be effectively used.
MACV is reviewing all captured material for this purpose.
-- 40 U.S. trucks are ready in Vietnam for delivery to the
Cambodians; Cambodian drivers and mechanics are being
moved to Saigon on June 18,
Military Assi!stance
A Presidential Dotormination is being forwarded to you to
add another $1 million to tkott pre_sont Cambodian 7Y 70 MAP
of $7.9 million; $25 million in rt_AlltAntit 10
million bl citatkLuip_s_42m1 is being arranged for P'Y 71, A
detailed program is being devek)pod by CLNCPAC and MACV.
The support funds will in part be used to support 2500 Khmer-
Kraut troops (of whom 2,000 are new deployed) and 4,000 Thai-
Khmer troops (of whom 1,000 have now been recruited). Two
additional Khmer-Krum battalions in training in South Vietnam
will be deployed to Phnom Penh. on July 14. 25X1
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n informed of our willin
ime ts for deployment
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Five Cambodian T-28 aircraft are being repaired In Thailand,
and five That T-28'. have boon loaned to Cambodia. Ten
additional T-28' s are being airlifted from the U.S. to Thailand
for further loan or transfer to Cambodia.
MACV Is drawing up a plan for the full use of U.S. air assets
and of OVN ground and air assets in Cambodia to ease NVA/VC
military pressure on the Cambodian forces.
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sale for paramilitary operations against NVA /VC
lines in South Laos and Northeast Cambodia are being
up.
A South Vietnamese Air is being
established in Phnom Penh with aircrafthelicopters,
supplies, and security. Planning for this base has been
expedited.
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ttve military intelligence officers are being added to the
Defense Attache staff in Phnom Penh for assessment and
validation of intelligence.
? five S n road watch teams have been sent from South Laos
to Northeastern Cambodia, andrmo readied;
native Cambodians will accompany these teams.
-- On June 16 MACV as directed to make maximum uje of
inlisesous round reconnaissance teams for intelligence.
target identification for air attacks, and forward air control
of air strikes.
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MACV was directed today to encourage the South Vietnamese
to establish a Joint Information Center in Phnom Penh to
coordinate intelligence collection, evaluation, and dissernina
tion. MACV and the Defense Attache in Phnom Penh will
assist and participate.
MACV has been requested to jexpedite_._ stationing at Piano
of two or threeu_OSo tnarnese light observation aircraft.
U.S. tactical air reconnaissance over Cambodia has been
increased to include COMINT, Atanr, and photography.
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We are following the *ctiVit9f the post-Lija4rta Conference
tion team (Malaysia, *noels. and Japan) to see where
we might be helpful. Thi* team will press for an international
conference on Cambodia international actions by the 1964 Geneva
powers and increased support for the international position of
the Cambodian Government.
-- The r.th are going ahead with a $5 million loan to Cambodia
and are maintaining teachers doctors and their military mission
In Phnom Penh?
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We are appro*cbing Australia, New 'Zealand and Japa
our pressures for assistance to Cambodia.
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