BACKGROUND-BANDUNG

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000500030064-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: March 30, 1955
• Content Type: BRIEF

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BACKGROUND - BANDUNG
I. Unofficial left-wing delegations from fol-
lowing 14 countries will attend the "Asian
Conference for Relaxing International Ten-
sions" in New Delhi, commencing 6 April
(list may be incomplete):
India Lebanon
Burma Mongolia
Ceylon North Korea
Communist China North Vietnam
Indonesia Pakistan
Japan Syria
Jordan USSR
II. Of these, all but USSR, Mongolia and North
Korea will be represented at Bandung by
high-ranking government delegations.
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ATTENDANCE - BANDUNG CONFERENCE
I. Total invited: 25 -
accepted: 24 (sole "no" - Central
African Federation).
II. Conferees fall into four political cate-
gories--Communist; neutralist; anti-
Communist and pro-Western. (Sponsors
marked with*)
A. Communists (2)
China
N. Vietnam
B. Neutralist (6)
Afghanistan
*Burma
*India
*Indonesia
Nepal
Syria
C. Anti-Communist(9)
Egypt
Gold Coast
Jordan
Cambodia
Laos
Libya
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Yemen
D. Pro-Western (12)
*Ceylon
Ethiopia
Iran
Iraq
Japan
Lebanon
Liberia
*Pakistan
Philippines
Thailand
Turkey
Vietnam
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