DISTRIBUTION OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS IN VARIOUS AREAS OF PHNOM PENH.

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06739173
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2019
• Case Number: F-2017-01443
• Publication Date: November 24, 1971

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CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH .(2
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OMME Nr THE RELATIVE .PROXIM1TY OFCOMM UN I Si 't FORCES(b).(1)
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TO THE CITY OF PHNOM PENH, COMBINED WITH INCREASING INDICATIONS
THAT THERE .HAS BEEN A DECLINE IN THE LEVEL OF SECURITY AROUND
THE CITY, HAS LED TO A WIDESPREAD ASSUMPTfON THAT TERRORIST GROUPS
ARE INSTALLED AND PREPARING FOR ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY._ THERE
HAS BEEN RELATIVELY LITTLE PROVEN TERRORIST ACTIVITY.SINCE.FIGHTING
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AsnAm 'gym' OF ')!NO PENH AND THE LOCAL SECURITY SFRYTCES HAVE', �
BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING SPECIFIC INFORMATION AdOUT THE
'MEMBERS LOCATIONS MODUS oPERANDI, AND INTENTIONS 'OF SUBVERSIVE
GROUPS. THE FOLLOWING REPORT, OBTAINED FROM. THREE DIFFERENT
SOURCES, IS THE FIRST RECENT INDICATION THAT REASONABLY WELL-
'ORGANIZED SUBVERSIVE GROUPS MAY DE:PREPARING TO INITIATE TERRORIST
ACTIVITIES IN PHNOM PENH. ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO SAY WITH
CERTAfNWTHAT THE TRACTS WERE IDENTICAL AND PRODUCED BY A-SINGLE
ORGAtIt.ATION THE CIRCUMSTANCES SUGGEST A COORDINATED EFFORT.)
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APPROXIMATELY 100 PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS WERE DISTRIBUTED AT THE
''.TILYMPIO.MARKET: THEY WERE THROWN IN'A BUNDLE FROM A maJTARy
'.EP CARRYING TWO MEN IN CIVILIAN XLOTRESTHE TRACTS WERE
ANTI-GOVERNMENi -AVTI-VIETNAMESEAND ANTI-AMERICAN IN THEME,
AND THEY ENJOINED ALL SEGMENTS OF THE POPULATION TO RISE UP
AND "EXPEL ALL FOREIGN ELEMENTS fRom CAMBODIA".
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SOURCE DID NOT PERSONALLY OBSERVE THE TRACTS,
WHICH WERE'QUICKLY
COLLECTED BY PREVOTE MILITAIRE (PM) SOLDIERS. HE HAD HEARD, HOWEVER
THAT THE TRACTS WERE HAND PRINTED AND REPRODUCED BY A "SIMPLE
STAMP" .HE .WAS NOT wARE WHETHER EXPLICIT REFERENCE WAS MADE
'TO LON-NOL SIRIK'MATAK AND SON NHOC THANH, BUT STAI.:D HE WAS
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TOLD THAT TH tLARGE REWARD" FOR THE HEAD OF
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E TRACTS OFFERED
Af2000 HOURS ON 22 NOVEMBER 1971, TWO MEN RIDING ON
HONDOOTORBICULE.SCATTERED PROPAGANDATRACTS BETWEEN THE
BANQUE KHMER ['OUR LE COMMERCE" AND THE "HOTEL LE PHNOM" ON
MONIVONG BOULEVARD. THEY WERE CHASED BY PM SOLDIERS, WHO FAILED
TO CATCH THEM.. THE TOTAL !UMBER OF TRACTS WAS ESTIMATED AT
APPROXIMATELy. 70, THE MAJORITY OF WHICH WERE COLLECTED. BY
PM SOLDIERS IN THE AREA. ACCORDING TO LIP'S WHO READ THE
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LEAFLETS THE THEMES WERE BASICALLY ANTI-GOVERNMENT\ AND ANTI
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AMERICAA IN THEME; THEY � EXHORTED ALL CAMBODIANS TO RISE UP
ND OVERTHROW THE PRESENT REGIME. COMMENT: THE SOURCE
WAS "UNABLTO"15BTAIN ONE OF THE ''TRA.CTS 'AND COULD'. NOT COMMENT
ON ITS EXACT CONTENTS. FROM HIS SECOND HAND AND IMPRECISE
DESCRIPTION: Ms NOT POSSIBLE TO SAY WHETHER THE TRACTS WERE
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IDENTIta. TO THOSE DISTRIBUTED' IN THE MEPHLOEUNG MARKET. .
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