197-10002-10196 Date : 05/20/97 Page : 1 ‘ JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : USA . RECORD NUMBER : 197-10002-1019 RECORDS SERIES : HEADQUARTERS FILES, PENTAGON TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTER AGENCY FILE NUMBER , DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - FROM : » TO : TITLE : REVIEW, 22 NOVEMBER 1963 DATE : 11/23/96 ‘PAGES : 13 SUBJECTS : SITUATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1A ; CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : / / OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED HW 50955 DBocld:322681404 Page 1
“eountay “SourHéag$t asta So” “ REPORT NO, “Toss ~3/565,804 -Sgupsecr ” ~ 563 | os, DATE DISTR.” 233 NOVEMBER 1963 | ; - PRECEDENCE ROUTINE - DATE OF” ” 2 wovemser 1963 te nOVEMBER 4 1963) CIA HAS NO OBJECTION 10. DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR ~ RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT... AS SANITIZED 1, c:URMA== NEGOTIATIONS WITH INSURGENTS. : Se 7. “Ms THE PEACE TALKS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE Wee’ TE FLAG COMMUNISTS AND_. THEIR: ASSOCIATES IN THE MAT TONAL DEMOCRATIC UNITED FRONT {NOUF) BROKE DCWN ON ty Nov, gi PEOPLE, INCLUOING LEADING LEFT WING POLITICIANS, WERE SUBSEQUENTLY ARRESTED. THE. NOUF
WAS SERIOUS AND BOLD AS CHINA WAS CLOSELY INVOLVED WITH THE WHITE FLAG COMMUNISTS, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN "- SOME ENCOURAGEMENT OR REASSURANCE FROM THE USSR, ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE PERSONS ARRESTZO ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN MOSCOW ORIENTED. C. THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL PROSASLY ENCOURAGE THE BURMESE GOVERNMENT TO TRY TO REACH AN AGREEMENT WITH SAW HUNTER AND THE MORE MODERATE INSURGENTS. IF THESE TALKS FAIL, GENERAL NE WIN WILL ZE FACED WITH AN - INSURGENT THREAT WHICH HAS INCREASED RAPIDLY. A. AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESS ON 19 NOV IT WAS DECIDED TO DISPENS: IMMEDIATELY WITH ALL US AID. THIS DECISION FOLLOWED A LONG INTERROGATION CF TwO MEMSERS OF THE KHMER SERE! WHICH WAS CONSIDERED TO PROVE US INVOLVEMENT IN ITS ACTIVITIES AND BROADCASTS, IN FACT THEIR ANSWERS SEEM TO. SHOW NO. MORE THAN THAT US ARMS AND EQUIPMENT ARE PLENTIFUL IN SOUTH VIETNAM, THAT THE KHMER SERE! HAD RECEIVED AMERICAN ASSISTANCE TO FIGHT THE VIET CONG AND ALSO AMERICAN RADIO APPARATUS. AisyeM in TION CONTROLS
esas quae enone Gunperteg = ete we : ‘ 4 3 { a 3 ‘ SIHANOUKS. SPEECHES LASHED -THE CROWD. INTO. A FURY AND ONE OF THE MEMBERS HAS BEEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL BY A MILITARY COURT WITH WHAT AMOUNTS TO A DIRECTION THAT HE SHOULO BE GIVEN THE DEATH SENTENCE. B, TWO MIG FIGHTERS WERE DELIVERED IN CRATES AT POCHENTONG on 8 NOV, BROUGHT BY ROAD FROM SIHANOUKVILLE. TWO FURTHER MACHINES WERE . EXPECTED THE NEXT DAY. THE RUSSIAN SHIP WHICH BROUGHT THE PLANES HAD A DECK CARGO OF SOME TWENTY FIVE VEHICLES, SOME OF THESE MAY CONTAIN FIGHTERS DIRECTION RADAR, | | Ze INOCNES [Aw= GOVERNMENT CHANGES. THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR AT DUAKARTA HAS COMMENTED THAT THE RECENT CABINET CHANGES SEEM TO REFLECT SOME DECLINE IN NASUT IONS INFLUENCE, ALTHOUGH NONE OF THE THREE NEW DEPUTY PRIME MINISTERS EXERCISES ANY SUPERVISORY © FUNCTION OVER" “THE: DEFENSE. "AND SEC ieee FOR WHICH HE. 1S’ COORDINATING MINISTER, HE HAS LOST | THE HONOR I FIC TITLE OF DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER. “AND HIS INFLUENCE AT THE CENTER 1S LESS THAN THAT OF CLASEITICATION = DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
SUBANDRIO, CHAERUL SALEH ANO LEIMENA. “he LAOS=--RENEWED CEASE FIRE NEGOTIATIONS, A. MILITARY DELEGATIONS LED BY COLONEL SINGKAPO AND KONG LE MET AT THE PLAINE DES JARRES ON i6 NOV, IN THE PRESENCE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ICC AND THE COCHAIRMEN OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE. THE PATHET LAO DELEGATION PROPOSED A CEASE FIRE BETWEEN THEIR FORCES AND THOSE OF THE NEUTRALIS*S AND ALSO SUGGESTED FURTHER TALKS BETWEEN THE MILITARY LEADERS TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR POLITICAL TALKS. BETWEEN PRINCE SOUVANNA PHOUMA AND PRINCE SOUPHANNOUVONG, THE NEUTRALISTS PROPOSED A RETURN TO THE POSITIONS OF JULY 1962 AND AN INCREASE IN THE ACTIVITY OF THE ICC, B. BOTH SIDES AGREED TO ORDER A CEASE FIRE WHILE | TALKS CONTINUE (THIS MAY HAVE BEEN BROKEN ALREADY). C. THE PATHET LAO APPEAR TO BE TRYING TO SPLIT THE . ’ _NEUTRALISTS AND PHOUMiS FORCES, KONG LE 1S WELL AWARE OF THIS. THE RIGHT WING REACTION TO THESE 9° 62.0: TALKS HAS NOT BEEN EXPRESSED BUT AT SUBORDINATE LEVEL THEY DO NOT SEEM DISPOSED TO OBUECT. CLASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
THA7 =£ WAS ONE CF A PARTY CF CLVEN | NIONESTANS be cam thom A was offs mm pt mes ne - WeC SAD RECEIVED TRAINING IN PCLAU ZININALIS, CMataa, AND WERE Put ASHORE AT VARIOUS POINTS ALONG THE COAST AETWEEN MUAR AND PONTIAN, THER HILSION WAS TO PIN ZSINT POLICE TIONS, GOVIANS OUT Zo. LOSING AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS (fF fny 283 MAND NGTES AND - Be etal No LT SAWING WP ati ranean * RENDEZVOLS CN 5S NOV WHEN THEY lc 5 SE TAKE a OFF BY 5 AT TO INDONES!A, Talo ian TO BE RECCGNIZ=ID @ 8 bam oo SLEEVE GF THEIR SHIRTS. UNFO* LNATELY TRE PRISONER WAS CNLY SROKEN NDER INTERALOT ISN ON 7 NOVEMBE ° t tae 3, DER FURTHER QUEST - SE GAVE THE NAME OF A ae AN Ne rear (op hank Kn SR red as - ty AGT De ti ot rong x eens Ne ae er. San Pore h Tr ie reer ok . FOUND NO TRACE OF THE OTRER S.% FERSONS ALLEGED TO HAVE INFILTRATED., INVESTIGATION | 1S CONTINUING MALAYSIA == SINGAPORE A, THIRTY LEFT WING TRADE UNIONS AFFILIATED TO THE areca cacti 2 Se ~CENRARNE: = ASR Seat ROY HF etenD et SOIGTHAIMATION GENTA a DA IN 153060. -— \ = ioe @ & 0 tee aed « wo GAH Be hate oe BO vine bh + store Os eb te oo 4 seeded o abate oe Be bones ot:
FORMER SINGAPORE ASSOCIATION OF TRADES UNIONS (SATU) REACTED TO THE BANNING OF SATU IN A STATEMENT ON | 16 NOV WARNING THAT "THE PEOPLE OF SINGAPORE WOLLD BE FORCED TO SEEK OTHER MEANS TO CONTINUE "WEIS TS STRUGGLE FOR A NATIONAL, DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT SHOULD THE CHANNEL OF CONSTITUTICNAL STRUGGLE &£ BLOCKED." THE REACTIONARY GROUPS, THE STATEMENT ADOLD, "WILL BEAR ALL CONSEQUENCES THAT MAY ARISE." FOLLOWING THE BAN ON SATU THE ROLE OF THE SARISAN SOS 1ALIS /ASSUMED INCREASING IMPORTANCE, SINCE IT 1S NOW ALMOST THE ONLY REMAINING OVERT AND REGISTERED nn ee o- ORGANIZATION TO PROVIDE A WIDE REPRESENTATION "OF THE COMMUNIST INSPIRED UNITSO FRONT. AT A MEETING OF LEADERS OF THE PARTY ON if NOV DR LEE SIEW- CHOH, THE CHAIRMAN, WAS REPORTED aY A DELICATE SOURCE TO HAVE URGED SRANCKES TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ORGANIZATION, ESPECIALLY IN THE FIVE CONSTITUENCIES _ WHERE BY ELECTIONS WERE POSSISLE FOLLOWING THE, | cDETENTION OF THREE, AND DISAPPEARANCE OF TWO, BS  ASSEMBLYMEN, DR.LEE ALSO REPORTEDLY POINTED | 10 THE DEVELOPING GUERILLA WAR _IN SARAWAK_AS _— CLASSIFICATION em DISSEMINATION GONTROLS DA IN 153060-n--- “hd ee at ate rice a
“FORMER: SINGAPORE ASSOCIATION OF ‘TRADE S UNIONS (SATU) - REACTED TO THE BANNING OF SATU IN ‘A STATEMENT ON 16 NOV WARNING THAT "THE PEOPLE OF SINGAPORE WOULD BE FORCED TO SEEK OTHER MEANS TO CONTINUE : TRUGGLE FORK NA TIONAL, DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT SHOULD THE CHANNEL OF CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE BE BLOCKED." THE REACTIONARY GROUPS, THE STATEMENT ADDED, "WILL BEAR ALL CONSEQUENCES THAT MAY ARISE," FOLLOWING THE BAN. ON SATU THE ROLE OF THE. BARISAN SOSIALIS/ASSUMED INCREASING IMPORTANCE, SINCE IT IS NOW ALMOST THE ONLY REMAINING OVERT AND REGISTERED ORGANIZATION TO PROVIDE A WIDE REPRESENTATION "7" OF THE COMMUNIST INSPIRED UNITED FRONT, AT A MEETING OF LEADERS OF THE PARTY ON 1 NOV DOR,LEE SIEW- CHOH, THE CHAIRMAN, WAS REPORTED 8Y A DELICATE SOURCE TO HAVE URGED BRANCHES TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ORGANIZATION, ESPECIALLY iN THE FIVE CONSTITUENCIES WHERE BY ELECTIONS WERE POSSIBLE FOLLOWING THE DETENTION OF THREE, AND DISASPEARANCE OF TWO, BS ASSEMBLYMEN, OR.LEE ALSO REPORTEDLY POINTED ? PI AWA 5 Le CLALH FICATION =» BISSEMINATION GONTAOLS 2 TW DR SED oot Shi Armee a SRS gas oe “SH955 Docld:32281404 Page 9
| FAVORABLE TO THE LEFT WING MOVEMENT IN SINGAPORE, 7« MALAYSIA~-SARAWAK, A ON 13-NOV A SECURITY FORCE PATROL CLASHED WITH AN ENEMY GROUP OF ‘UNKNOWN STRENGTH IN THE SCRDER AREA APPROXIMATELY TWENTY MILES EAST-NORTH-EAST OF LU80K ANTU, IN THIRD DIVISION, AFT ER A FAGHT WHICH _ LASTED FOR ABOUT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES THE ENEMY PARTY WITHDREW ACROSS THE FRONTIER, IN THIS ACTION ONE POLICE FIELD FORCE MEMBER WAS WOUNDED AND SUBSEQUENTLY DIED, ENEMY CASUALTIES ARE OSSCURE BUT IT 1S THOUGHT “THAT AT LEAST FIVE OF THEM WERE HIT. . : B. IN SECOND DIVISION, AN ENEMY. PARTY APPROXIMATELY “FIFTY STRONG ENTERED A LONG HOUSS ON THE BORDER "SOUTH WEST OF SIMANGGANG AT MIDNIGHT ON 15-16 NOVEMEER, FOLLOWING SOME INDISCRIMINATE FIRING WHICH LASTED ASOUT TEN MINUTES THE RAIDING PARTY ~ WITHDREW HAVING SLIGHTLY WOUNDED ONE LOCAL ISAN. NO OTHER CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED, IN TAKING FOLLOW-UP | ACTION, SECURITY FORCES HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THIS GROUP, 7 of Le. “|T 1S. POSSIBLE THAT AN. IRREGULAR zopce OF UNKNOWN PLASHIPIGATION -= DISSEMINATION CONTROLS “ya MT FETE 8 ARG Mere i s :
STRENGTH BUT IN POSSESSION OF A MORTAR HAS PENETRATED “INTO FIRST DIVISION, ON 19 NOV A LOCAL WAS TOPPED BY AN ARMED UNIFORM MAN NEAR KAMPONG 6 :LAMPIT (DUE SOUTH OF LUNDU) AND TOLD TO RETURN TO HIS KAMPONG OR HE WOULD BE SHOT, SOME i5 MINUTES LATER SIX ROUNDS OF FAIRLY ACCURATE MORTAR FIRE FELL IN THE KAMPONG SELAMPIT AREA, THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES. FOLLOWUP (verity exatuey =f "TEE MORTAR POSITION SOUTH OF THE VILLAGE AND SOME FOUR MILES INSIDE SARAWAK, THE MORTAR USED HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A 5QMM TYPE. A LARGE QUANTITY OF TYPED AND WRITTEN PROPAGANDA IN MALAY WAS FOUND IN THE VICINITY. D. THERE WERE TWO MORE SORDER VIOLATIONS BY |NDONES | AN AIRCRAFT ON 17 NOVEMBER, ONE WAS AT “BARIO AND LONG RAPANG, ON THE BORDER OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH DIVISIONS OF SARAWAK, AND THE OTHER AT ALLACE-BAY-ON-SEBATIK~ISLAND. IF 1§..BELIEVED THAT “THE SAME! F51 AND B25 AIRCRAFT WERE CONCERNED IN BOTH INCIDENTS. E, ‘IN THE COURSE OF A SECENT OPERATION IN THE ! De om DIPLEWIRATION COMPAOLS t . wes cre “DA. Le 153060 os wae . reps i 5 “4 ; . ae a . hae = ; . esse. fib. ooalEi o oe i -@d + ou. : Bocld: 322761404 Page it owe
SEKENU AREA OF FOURTH DIV!SiO%, 12 CHINESE, EIGHT OF WHOM HAD COME TO BEKENU FROM KUCHING WITHIN THE PREVIOUS SIX MONTHS, WERE ARRESTED, !NTERROGATION HAS REVEALED THAT THE CHINESE FROM. KUCHING, ALL OF WHOM ARE SARAWAK FARMERS" ASSOCIATION (SFA) MEMBERS, WERE SENT TO THIS AREA BY THE CLANDESTINE COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION (CCO) TO ORGANIZE A MILITANT _ GROUP, ‘THIS GROUP HAS BEEN FORMED UNDER THE COVER OF THE SFA AND CONSISTS AT PRESENT OF 11% PERSONS, |. 4 OF WHOM ARE CHINESE AND 18 KEDAYANS. THREE BOXES OF HAND GRENADES ARE SAID 70 HAVE BEEN DELIVERED 1 TO THIS GROUP BY SoAT FROM BRUNE! AND SUBSEQUENTLY | Wippen. IN THE COURSE OF THIS CUSRATION A LETTE i FROM ONE OF THE CHINESE ARRESTEO WAS FOUND, THE 5 \ LETTER WAS !NTENEDED FOR 5!SSATCH TO SINGKAWANG VIA KUCHING AND APPARENTLY ASKED FOR A SECOND SHIPMENT - OF HAND GRENADES, IT 1S REPORTED THAT NO PERSONAL WEAPONS HAVE BEEN IMPORTED FOR THIS GROUP, THERE “WAS WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR TH TNKU FROM KCDAYANS IN THIS AREA IN DECEMBER 196°, THIS 18 THE FIRST KNOWN INSTANCE OF THE # AP IME NST UGE MAT EVES a AE ME TSE | A SM Riche SU Car a tn a SERRE Rs SERS PEE CERES, EERE RIAL OY STL OLENA PENS SPER PY Eo PS EEE RPA ET ER ARE aD OES. TE eet e rors te ess B hRhee At eg cont Yee | wn ee 4 OS rel ee yO ee » 7° be Onn : ‘ Ch tect atte axe 7h thE : ae eal h a . y _ os ° & : . Pele 8 2 aia RIOD ate sea c ‘3 t Docld: 32751404 Page i2
THE § SFA AND OF COLLABORATION SiTWEEN CHINESE AND tories IN THE Cco'S PREPARATIONS FOR ARMED STRUGGLE. ‘ RECENT REPORTS SHOW THAY DURING OCT AND NOV _ THERE HAS BEEN A RENEWED EXODUS OF Cc SUPPORTERS FROM THe FIRST DIVISION ~O WEST KALIMANTAN, “SOME ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE TRAVELED 2Y SEA. OX THIS CONTEXT IT 1S OF INTEREST TO NOTE THAT A NOV EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SFA STATED THAT THE ARMED STRUGGLE "1S NOW MOST IMMINENT? AND EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THAT VICTORY WAS ASSURED. © GA RELIABLE SOURCE HAS REPORTED THAT THE NINE -INDONESIANS WHO WERE WITH THE CCO MILITANT GROUP IN THE GINATANGSSAREKE! AREA OF “8 IRD DIVISION (SEE PARA {11 & OF FSS 13635 (-22242/565,g26 — ) HAD ARRIVED THERE ON 9 SEPT, ARMED WITH AUTOMATIC WEAPONS AND HAND GRENADES, AND HAD SUBSEQUENTLY GIVEN MILETARY TRAINING TO SFA MEMBERS, THE SAME SOURCE ALLEGES THAT THE CCO IN THE SAME. AREA HAVE SEEN MANUFACTURING ELECTRICALLY OPERATED ANT: PERSONNEL MINES FROM LOCALLY AVAILABLE MATERIALS, B. MALASYS:m=-SABAZ, Seed OBin Reh Ee tern Be OCDE Gru bs ame 6 CAS. SN MARS aE. : Cbabbication o- DIESAreIMATL Ot GONTAQU tla ee ca!
AN’ INDONESIAN ARRESTED IN TAWAU ON 18 NOV >” HAS: ADMITTED UNDER INTERROGATION THAT HE ac AN INDONES 1AN POLICE CONSTABLE FROM " TARAKAN, Ho HAD BEEN SENT TO TAWAU 3Y THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF THE BULONGAN/BERAU DISTRICT TO CONT “ANOTHER INDONESIAN POLICEMEN WHO 1S CLEARLY IDENTICAL "WITH * THE JAVANESE PREVIOUSLY MENT | ONED AS THE PERSON _ WHO PROPOSED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BARISAN PEMBRONTAKAN RAKJAT. SABAH IN MID SEPT 63 (SEE © PARA. IV OF FSS 13635 ( T20s=3/564,936 JY.) HE WAS TO "REPORT ‘BACK TO TARAKAN ON TRE STATE.OF READINESS oF THIS ORGANIZATION. THE CHIEF OF POLICE WOULD THEN DECIDE ON ARRANGEMENTS FOR A SUP OF HAND GRENADES TO BE SENT TO THE ORGANIZATION IN TAWAU. ge SOUTH VIETNAM MILITARY, A. THE VICT CONG FAILED TO REACT OURING THE THREE DAYS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SuCCESSfUL COUP D'ETAT ON 1 NOV AND IT CAN BE ASSUMED THAT THEY HAD LITTLE OR NO IDEA THAT A COUP WAS IMMINENT. DURING “THE: NEXT: 7=19° DAYS: VIET CONG ACTIVITY INCREASED CONSIDERABLY i IN THE. SHAPE OF UNCOORDINATED ATTACKS . oe vidal 2 tteetede gr a Ca a dhiggs "Og 5 a : tr ee ¥ 4
‘MAINLY AGAINST CIVIL GUARD POSTS, STRATEGIC HAMLETS ACTIVITY HAS NOW DROPPED TO A MORE 4 “SND WATCHTOWERS. NORMAL LEVEL. ONE SERIOUS INCIDENT TOOK PLACE IN KIEN GIANS PROVINCE, 12@ MILES SOUTH WEST OF SAIGON, ON 13 Vv NOV WHEN A CIVIL GUARD COMPANY WAS AMSUSHED & THE VIET CONG. GOVT LOSSES ARE REPORTED AS 55 KILLED, 3% WOUNDED, 6 MISSING AND 7! WEAPONS LOST. WET CONG CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED AS 687 KILLED (SIC) AND Cae WEAPONS CAPTURED. NO FURTHER DETAILS ARE YET AVAILABLE. - 1 T_1S POSSIBLE THAT THIS-INCLDENT QUICKER AND STRONGER REACTION WHICH THE NEW GOVT WILL TAKE tn ar are IRE AGAINST THE VIET CONG ATTACKS [> “et FUTU ARMY NAVY AIR CINCPAC PACFLT . ny i TiELD DISSEM: SATE PACAP ARPAC. Ti. MCHEASAUARTERS COMMINTE MESS ENG PORTION VERE Ae GLSSEmMiNATES ONLY TR 14 MATERIALLY AEFECTS THE BENGE SP Thee acsont.) “"" geTpion: acs, NAVY, AF, Jcs, 080 DISTR : DCSOP DA IN 153060 BDoclda: 3227681404 Page 15