SUGGESTION FOR PLEBISCITE ON MALAYSIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00429A001400010015-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 20, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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Approved For Release 2005/04/28 CIA-RDP79T00429AO01400010015-5
accept it as a face saving fa mula under which
could back away from its "confrontation" polio
1. Ambassador Jones suggests that Indonesia
animus toward Malaysia could be turned aside by a
provision for holding a plebiscite in Sarawak anti
x"abab, two or three years hence, to determine fi-
nally popular aspiration s concerning independence
or continued identification with Malaysia.
2. icb a proposition could only gain accept-
from both sides if (a) Indonesia were prepared
eve toward a reconciliation with Malaysia and
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Suggestion for Plebiscite
on siaaysia
made this position knaarn in an unequivocal way to
the Malaysian government; or (b) the Malaysian
without any such assurances in (a),
prepared to enter the protect, on the assump-
on that by winning a plebiscite it would end In-