A PRINCE GIVES VIEWS ON CIA AND CAMBODIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700260022-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: December 16, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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A Prince Gives.,
Views on CIA
and Cambodia
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NEWS
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By HENRY J. TAYLOR The letter from Prince Noro- ents-their Majesties the King
and Queen-their lives, should
I dom Sihanouk is rare from the l have aroused certain, unworthy
I HAVE in hand a letter from I head of a government. It is'
-Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the self-serving, of course, and tit of the the individuals dtwhipm.
roro.
chief of -
there are unmentioned causes; who p
state of Cambodia, vided the conspirators with the
beyond our control that also in-;
which borders South Viet Nam.' fluenced his nation's actions.! expert technical knowledge dis-
For years, strategic Cambo. But the letter does Indicate,! Played in concocting the phrcel
dia was ? our staunch friend. once more that we will never containing the Infernal machine.
American taxpayers' aid to it do with dollars what we fail to "Finally, information of in- ,i
has been tremendous. But It do with brains, rcreasingly circumstantial na-?
The Prince says this: lure to the effect that rebel J
has denounced us now. "We abandoned with profound bands, Installed close to our
ANTI-RED regret the economic and milt-' frontiers, and equipped' itit!
Cambodia had no truck with .; tart' aid your government gee- I powerful wireless transmitters, ,l
the Reds and we have always erously provided Cambodia, were receiving supplies from a.
told her that we regarded her.;' fully recognizing t h e unwel- clandestine American organize-
tion over which the American
policy of strict neutrality as come fact' that the path ahead
completely understandable and would be a difficult one. else no appeared to execo
entirely satisfactory. "The great advantages were 1 else no control, contributed to.?
our decision to renounce fur-
But Cambodia was profound- outweighed by certain restric- then aid from an ostensibl
ly shocked by b the Washington tions imposed on our freedom y
friendly government, engaged-
of action
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e some- it would seem-in financing ac-,
nearby Saigon, the murder off what ambiguous attitude adopt- tivities designed to encompass
the brothers Diem and Wash- ed ?by certain American nffi
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cy "It is in nowise my wish to
the army chiefs who did the ".,, `
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Palace killings. The effect on of strict neutrality. appear ungrateful for the as
the leaders of the Cambodian This attitude was demon- sistance Cambodia has received
government was: "But for the strated as long ago as Febru- from the American taxpayer,
grace of God, there go L" whose generous desire to help
ary, 1959, when an American economically-backward c o u n.
Cambodia promptly refused official in Phnompenh, alleged . tries, is deserving of the highest
to a c c e p t more American to be a member of your Cen- praise. But it seems to us that,
money or personnel and ex- tral Intelligence Agency, was until clandestine activities and,'
polled all U. S. military, eco policy-making proclivities' of
nomic and information mss- found to be implicated in a this sort are brought firmly urn
sions, blaming much on our dangerous conspiracy designed der control, American policy in
Central Intelligence Agency. ,All to-.lead to the secession of two I" this part of the world'will con-
this has greatly aided our en-; time ' to appear
of,bur northern provinces. double-faced,
mies In South Viet Nam by "It while the assurances of good-
complicating nearly everything ! was perhaps inevitable, !intentions readily provided by
we want to do militarily along after such a shock to our con- American ambassadors w' i 1 I !
that border: ' fidence; that a bomb outrage continue to be received with
:some months later at the Pal
some"ysiticism _ .~
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