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  • of policy control and clearance ot such politically a~sitive operatione ia also being worked out by then 1'epartmenta. 2: tlB ability to influence C&lllbod.1a bas been reduced b;y Sihanouk' a request tor tend.nation ot W dd and by his continued charges
  • are worried about the activity of Sihanouk. The South Vietnamese do not want Thai forces in their territor y . The Thais are giving us good political support, but we have not pressed them to send military forces to South Vietna m . Secretary Rusk called
  • and Japanese (Embassy Bangkok and Embassy Saigon see very little information from these sources; if it is coming to the Department, they would appreciate being put on distribution !or it.) 3. Sihanouk should personally be presented with evidence of Viet Cong
  • ., that Sihanouk of Cambodia is turning away from )forth Vietnam and is prepared to wo1:k out an under standing with South Vietnam . S ec r etary Rusk presented the recommendations of pages 17 and18 of S ec retary McNamar a's r epor t on Vietnam (attached) . He
  • successful in persuading him to go along with Washington proposals . We should continue our method of pctsuasion• . Secretary Rusk noted that if we go in with new expanded programs we might pro'm pt the French, as well as Sihanouk, to change
  • /VCUSE OF CAM30D:AANDTKE AP?A~ENT ·RESU??LY~ROM THIS eu~~TER. OURMEASURSS SHOULD DE't?PLIED IN SUCHA VAY -~S TO BRINGFRE~SUREON SIHANOUK TO DEALMOR~FORTHRIGHTLY •• sr-coc--r ••.. :.. L J\U • . - : .- .. .. ...... . . ... ' ,. .- . SEGRE! -2
  • TILE TO GVN, RESPONSIVE ONLY TO SIHANOUK’ S W IL L BE RENDERED ' IMPOTENT TO T R O IK - L IK E COMPOSITION A L^ IC C . ACCORDINGLY, B E L IE V E ^ GVN'AND U .S . SHOULD I N S IS T ON OG: , / 1) WHOSE MEMBERSHIP I S P O L ITIC A LL Y IM PA R TIA L
  • . In Laos, we are still working largely within the framework of the 1962 Geneva Accords .. In Cambodia we are still s.ecking to keep Sihanouk from abandoning .whatever neutrality he may still have and fulfilling his threat of' reach­ ing an accommodation
  • . CAMBODIA GVN r e p ly t o Cambodian charges o f d e f o lia t io n p o iso n (p . 1 7 ) ; Sihanouk may oppose UN in v o lv e m e n t i n GVN-RKG r e l a t i o n s (p . 1 8 ) , C. LAOS J o in t GVN-Lao m i l i t a r y planned (p . 1 8 ) . D. lia is o n