ASSOCIATION OF FORMER SAHACHEEP PARTY SENATOR WITH THE SOVIET MINISTER TO SIAM

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500050001-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Siam
SUBJECT Association of Former Sahacheep Party
Senator with the Soviet Minister to Siam
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Nai Chinda Chindanaseri*, a Sahacheep Senator prior to the November 1947
Coup d'Ttat, is now being employed by the Soviet Legation in Bangkok.
It is acknowledged by Nai Chirxghimself, and by his associates, that
he is giving private lessons in Siamese to Serge S. Nemohina, the Soviet
Minister.** This is not the full extent of the aeeoctaticm..-
2. Nai Chinda is a graduate of Assumption College in Bangkok, where he took
a course in French, the language in which he converses with Nemchina.
He received a law degree from the University of Moral and Political
Sciences in 1139. He is a close associate of former Sahacheep Senators
Nai Thienchai Apichatbutr and Nai Tai Panikabutr, both of whom are
active in local labor circles. Nai Chinda is also associated'with
the law firm of Kai Sawai Sutthiphitak, secretary to former Prime
Minister Thamrong Nawasawatn
3. Nei Chinda is a quiet, intelligent studious man who can be characterised
as a "bookworm." He is not one of the Pridi "inner circle" ana is un-
popular with most former Sahacheep members because of his uncooperative
attituae in the pre-November 19117 days, one illustration being his re-
fusal to contribute to the Party treasury.
Comment. The name "Nai Chinda Pundhumchinda" appears
on all available lists of pre-November 1917 Sahacheep Senators.
onment. Nai Chincla was elected Senator on 214 May lylo.
n pril 1947 he attended an "anti-dictatorship" meeting which
sponsored an anti Pibul rally on 7 April 19147 on the Phramane Gx,unds.
On 211 May 1147, he gave an address on Radio Bangkok on the "Psychology
of Fear." In July 19116, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the
Constituent Assembly. In October 1948, he was named a member d tie
law firm of Nai Sawai Sutthiphitak. This firm placed an ad in
Socialism, Siamese pro-Soviet weekly.
-Conmlent. It has not been determined whether or not Nai Chinda
Is ac a. giving these lessons to Nemchina.
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