SIHANOUK'S SHADOW CABINET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-5-4-19-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 7, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

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you may fiat the Department of State Inteelt.igence Brief at Tab A of
interest. it describes the, formation of ihan+ uk'ee :,Royast Govern-
ment of National Union", and concludes that this pushes the confron-
tation in Cambodia one step further, but noes not necossarity mean
an i caeedIatee Communist effort to reinstate Sihanouk in Phnom earth
by force of arms. Brief biographies of the Cabinet merabers are
attached.
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The paper skips somewhat lightly over what may be the key fact about
this new "Coveerrxaament": the a ommunist@ have exacted a heavy price
from Sihanouk` and have surrounded him with their men in the important
positions. The liraixsteerrass of National Defense, Information and Props.
aandat, and Interior are young, dynamic leftists who fled Cambodia
(perhaps for Hanoi) in 1967 when Sihanouk launched a drive against
leftists out of fear of growing Commw tst influence in his Government.
The minister of Finance is known only rags an erstwhile Communist
propagandist in Paris. The