NON-CIA TELETYPED MESSAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00140R000100460003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 23, 1964
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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NON-CIA TELETYPED MESSAGE
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APRIL 23 . 4 PM
DEPT FOR 4JLG
?MANILA FOR FELG
DECISION TO ENTER PHASE I OF E AND E POSSIBLE IN NEAR FUTURE.
REQUEST NECESSARY AIRCRAFT BE PLACED ON ALERT AND FOLLOWING
INFOP,MATION ON AIR EVACUATION USING USAF FACILITIES BE PROVIDED
FOR OUR PLANNING PURPOSES:
1) LAPSE TIME IN HOURS FROM REQUEST FOR AIRLIFT TO ARRIVAL
VIENTIANE?
2) CAPACITY OF PLANES AND NUMBER AVAILABLE IF TIMETABLE MUST BE
COMPRESSED.. (ESTIMATE UP TO 1000 DEPENDENTS; 400 PLUS AMERICAN,,
100 PLUS BRIT/AUSTRALIAN AND UN DEPENDENTS, AND 400 PLUS TCN)
REQUEST KNOWLEDGE THIS ACTION BE HELD ON STRICT NEED TO KNOW B~IS.
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CLASSiFIED MESSAGE I SCtr' L I
INFO IM?IFD IALK CINCPAC 789 LONDON 519 PARIS 504 PPENH 116
=VIENTIANE ce IC-ON 254 FROM APRIL 23, 1:00 PM.
CINOPAC FOR POLAD
-NERALS SIHO AND KOUPRASITH EMERGED FROM MINDEFENSE FOLLOWING
THREE HOUR MEETING WITH FAR GENERALS. FOUR SOUTHERN GENERALS
ARRIVED FROM SAVANNAKHET AT 7:00 AM AFTER HAVINHWMET THERE
YESTERDAY. NORTHERN GENERALS ARRIVED TWO DAYS AGO. COL
BOUNLEUT TOLD PRESS OFFICER AIRPORT YESTERDAY PHOUMI ISSUED
ORDERS TO REGIONAL GENERALS TO ACCEPT INVITATION OF REVO-
L1IT IONIARY COMMITTEE TO COME VIENTIANE TO MEET WITH THEM.
CAF^1ERAL AMKHA HAD ALSO BEEN INVITED AS OBSERVER. KOUPRASITH
ANNOUNCED TO ASSEMBLED NEWSMEN THAT REGIONAL GENERALS WERE
"UN'ANIMO;USLY" BEHIND REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE. PRESS ASKED
IF GENF \LS WOULD PERMIT GROUP PHOTOGRAPH AND KOUPRASITH
CX)T THEIR APPROVAL (SIHO TOOK CENTER POSITION) AMKHA ALSO
PUT IN PHOTO.
SIHO TOLD PRESS HE WAS VERY STAISFIED WITH FIRST MEETING
BECAUSE IT DEMONSTRATED THE "UNITY AND SOLIDARITY" OF FAR
G'E'NERALS BEHINE THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE. HE SAID THEY
HAD DISCUSSED MILITARY MATTERS AND THAT THEY HAD NOT DECIDED
LNN THE POLICY THEY PLANNED TO TAKE TOWARD SOUVANNA'S COALITION
OVT. HE SAID THEY WOULD MEET AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON TO DISCUSS
"POLITICAL PROPOSALS" WHICH THEY PLAN TO PUT TO SOU.,-.
At'KHA AND SIHO THEN RODE OFF TOGETHER, AMKHA WEARING WHITE
BADGE, OF REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE.
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CLASSIER, MESSAGE I StC.,I~,C I i~ .. r PAGE
THEY ALSO PROMISED TO MEET PRESS AT 5 THIS AFTERNOON.
C01'4?NT: THIS IS DISTURBING DEVELOPMENT BUT NOT DECISIVE!
IN ITSELF. PARTICULARLY IN VIEW HQET ING' S HAVING BEEN
DESCRIBED AS MEETING ON MILITARY MATTERS AND WORD THAT THERE
TOU!LD BE SUBSEQUENT MEETING ON POLITICAL MATTERS, ETC. LEAVES
POSSIBLE INTERPRETATION THAT THIS I5 INVOLVED, STEP-BY-STEP
PROCESS FOR WORKING REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE OUT OF CONTROL
IN UNIQUELY LAOTIAN MANNER. NEVERTHELESS I AM DISTURBED
ABOUT POSSIBLE PHOUMI DOUBLECROSS (SEE UDOR0158) OR MUTINY
OF FAR GENERALS (PRESUMABLY BECAUSE OF SIHO-KOUPRASITH
APPEALS TO THEM RE PHOUMI CORRUPTION, SOUVANNA WEAKNESS,
FTC) AND I AM SEEKING PHOUM I' S EXPLANATION ASAP AND CAS
AND ARMA ARE ABROAD SEEKING CONFIRMATION AND INTERPRETATION
FRO" MILITARY AND OTHERS.
UNGER
EGRET'..
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^: SSAr0 -CHARGE GROUP HAS JUST SEEN GEN PHOUMI WHO EXPLAINED
T'-cT OBI HIS RETURN FRO I LUANG PRABANG HE CONVEYED TO REVOLUTIONARY
CO1,,`NITTEE POSITION OF HIS MAJESTY CONCERNING GOVERNMENT NATIONAL
N, CONSTITUTION, GENEVA ACCORDS, ETC AND CONTINUED URGING
T,1-1-," RETURN AUTHORITY TO LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT. PHOUMI
` . U MA 3LY WITH THOUGHT OF SAVING FACE COUP LEADERS DISCUSSED
VARIOUS MEANS BY WHICH THEY MIGHT REGISTER THEIR COMPLAINTS
(SOMMME OF THEM CERTAINLY LEGITIMATE) WITH CABINET AND HE HAS
APPARENTLY ALSO INDICATED AT LEAST TO SIHO AND PERHAPS OTHERS
THAT HE 1,,1OULD RECOMMEND AMNESTY TO HIS MAJESTY FOR ALL THOSE
RESPONSIBLE. PHOUMI WAS SERIOUS AND NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUTCOME,
INDICATING HE WAS BENDING ALL EFFORTS TO AVOID BLOODSHED BUT
'.:1AS. WORRIED ABOUT YOUNG HOTHEADS WHO MIGHT TAKE MATTERS IN THEIR
O'.W'N HANDS EVEN IF SIXO AND KOUPRASITH (HE REGARDS LATTER AS NOW
A NEGLIGIBLE INFLUENCE) WERE DISPOSED TAKE RELATIVELY MODERATE
LINE. PHOLJMI BLAMES COUP AND CONTINUING IMPASSE ON "POLITICIANS"
AND BEFORE ALL OF OUR GROUP HAD ARRIVED NAMED TO ME OUN SANANIKONE
ANT) INP ENG SURYADHAY. HE SUGGESTED WE WORK ON THEM. WHEN I ASKED
TXETHEP, IT MIGHT BE USEFUL FOR US TAKE OTHER MEASURES (I WAS
THINNING OF EMBTELS 1163 AND 1169) TO MAKE OUR POSITION CRYSTAL
CLEAR. PHOUMI DISCOURAGED THIS, SAYING IT MIGHT HAVE EFFECT OF
GOADING HOTHEADS INTO EXTREME ACTIONS. IN SUM HIS ADVISE FOR MOMENT
WAS TO GIVE HIM AND HIS PEOPLE TIME TO WORK CUT SETTLEMENT.
!WITH REFERENCE MEETING OF FAR GENERALS WITH REVOLUTIONARY
COMMITTEE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY, PHOUMI SAID THIS MAY BE CRUCI..L.
HE TOLD ME BEFORE OTHERS ARRIVED THAT IT WAS HIS INTENTION
THAT REGIONAL FAR GENERALS PROVIDE MODERATING INFLUENCE ON
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YOUNG ACTIVITIS; NEVERTHELESS WHEN OUR ENTIRE GROUP WAS PRESENT
AND AFANASSIEV INQUIRED ABOUT REGIONAL GENERALS AND WHETHER
TH:IR COMING TO THE MEETING WITH REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE `MEANT
T HEY HAD RALLIED TO LATTER 9 PHO UM I REPLIED AMBIGUOUSLY THAT WE
ILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT ARE RESULTS OF MEETING.
(I AT LOSS TO INTERPRET THIS). HE SEEMED TO DISMISS
"'IATIONAL" ARMY IDEA SINCE HE GATHERED IT MEANS COMBINING
ALL FORCES INTO FAR-DOMINATED ARMY WHETHER OTHERS WILLING OR NOT.
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