INFORMATION ITEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-3-35-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: November 19, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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FBI, DIA, Review
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NOVEMBER 19, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE PRESIDENT
FROM: HENRY A. KISSINGER
SUBJECT: INFORMATION ITEMS
PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR RELEASED UNHARMED: THE PHILIPPINE
AMBASSADOR AND ONE OF HIS EMBASSY OFFICERS WERE RELEASED
UNHARMED EARLY TUESDAY MORNING AFTER HAVING BEEN TAKEN
HOSTAGE IN THE EMBASSY LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BY A
PHILIPPINE RESIDENT OF THE WASHINGTON AREA. THE FILIPINO
GUNMAN, NAPOLEON LECHOCO, WHO HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN ANTI-
MARCOS CAUSES, DEMANDED THAT PRESIDENT MARCOS ALLOW HIS
SON AND ANOTHER FILIPINO COUPLE TO LEAVE THE PHILIPPINES.
NEGOTIATIONS WERE WELL UNDERWAY WHEN LECHOCO SURRENDERED.
HE WAS ARRAIGNED TUESDAY. THE FBI PLAYED AN INTERMEDIARY
ROLE IN BRINGING ABOUT LECHOCO'S SURRENDER. THE INCIDENT
WAS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND AGAINST AN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON.
INDOCHINA SITUATION: FIGHTING OVER HIGHGROUND POSITIONS
IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF SOUTH VIETNAM CONTINUES AT
A MODERATE RATE DESPITE ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WHICH BROUGHT
FLOODING TO MANY OF THE COASTAL AREAS. THE COMMUNISTS
MONTHLY MINI-HIGHPOINT IN THE DELTA PROVINCES HAS TAPERED
OFF AND THERE HAS BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT ACTION REPORTED ELSE-
WHERE IN THE COUNTRY.
CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT DEFENDERS ON NOVEMBER 18 REPULSED
KHMER COMMUNIST GROUND ATTACKS AGAINST A GARRISON POSITION
TEN MILES EAST OF PHNOM PENH ON THE OPPOSITE BANK OF THE
MEKONG RIVER -- OVER L00 INSURGENTS WERE REPORTEDLY KILLED.
ON THE SAME DAY, HEAVY COMMUNIST ATTACKS IN THE LOVEK
AREA -- 25 MILES NORTH OF THE CAPITAL -- FORCED GOVERNMENT
TROOPS TO ABANDON A POSITION, BUT ARMY COMMANDERS DID NOT
CONSIDER THE THREAT IN THE AREA SERIOUS. COMMUNIST GUNNERS
HAVE HIT PHNOM PENH'S SOUTHERN SUBURB WITH SPORADIC ROCKET
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FIRE DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS BUT DID LITTLE DAMAGE AND ONLY
LIGHT CASUALTIES HAVE. RESULTED. IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST, IN-
CONCLUSIVE FIGHTING CONTINUES AROUND SVAY RIENG WHERE GOVERN-
MENT TROOPS ARE TRYING TO PUSH COMMUNIST UNITS BACK FROM
THE CITY'S SOUTHERN PERIMETER.
KHMER CREDENTIALS FIGHT IN THE UN: ON NOVEMBER L6 A HIGH
RANKING MEMBER OF THE GKR DELEGATION TO UNESCO IN PARIS
"DEFECTED" TO THE SIHANOUK SIDE. A PRESS ACCOUNT QUOTES
HIM AS CALLING ON OTHER COUNTRIES AT THAT CONFERENCE NOT
TO RECOGNIZE THE LON NOL GOVERNMENT. WE BELIEVE THIS IS
AN INITIAL MOVE IN A CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED EFFORT TO DIS-
CREDIT THE GKR IN THE UPCOMING UN CREDENTIALS DEBATE.
THE COMMUNISTS PLAN TO INCI E
ANTIGOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN PHNOM PENH TO COINCIDE
WITH THE DEBATE. THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY THAT A PRO-
VISIONAL CAPITAL IS BEING CONSTRUCTED NEAR ANGKOR WAT
AND THAT THE COMMUNISTS WILL PROCLAIM IT TO THE WORLD DURING
THE DEBATE.
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