ACTIONS ON CAMBODIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-459-10-1-0
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 4, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
INFORMATION
MG LI 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
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FROM: Henry A. Kissil
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SUBJECT: Actions on Cambodia
The following is a report on actions taken or underway on Cambodia
from July 27 through 600 p.m., July 31.
Military Operations: ARVN forces operating in the Krek/Fishhook area
and in the Mekong delta/seacoast region continued to make contacts with
enemy units up to company size.
? U.S. /VNAF air operations included 15 B-52 strikes, 262 tacair
missions, and 114 recce missions. Ten pieces of roadbuilding equipment
were damaged or destroyed, plus 6 vehicles and 3 motor launches.
Third Country Military Forces in Support of Cambodia: Our Embassy in
Bangkok reports some 70 Thai air strikes since July 4 in Cambodia; the
principal result has been the destruction of boats on the Tonle Sap.
Military Assistance: The following equipment was delivered:
U. S. Origin Captured
Small arms ammo 39,600 rds.
Machine Gun ammo 59,535 rds. 70,722
Rockets 1,976
Mortar ammo 778 rds.
Grenades 360
Mines 3,426
Air munitions
Rockets
Bombs
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-- Cumulative Shipments to Cambodia by Type and Source Since
April 22:
small arms
crew served weapons
vehicles
radios/equipment
small arms ammo
crew served weapons ammo
artillery munitions 9, 000 rds. 0
air munitions
miscellaneous 108 tons
ammo and rockets 48,588
bombs 1,260
spare parts 1,120 lbs.
U. S. Origin
Captured
27,644
15,486
1,333
1,811
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0
373
0
14,336,428 rds.
2,631,746 rds.
1,161,375 rds.
3,211,602 rds.
-- Ambassador Unger has proposed an increase in MASF for Thailand
to improve Thai capabilities for assistance in Cambodia by providing trade-
offs. He has identified $18.9 million in projects of high priority, and
$33.95 million in lower-priority projects.
-- The Indonesians are prepared to go ahead forthwith with the shipment
of 2,500 AK-47s and 750,000 rounds of ammunition, with the remainder of
the 15,000 to be shipped as U.S. replacement rifles arrive. They have
made alternative proposals for U.S. direct delivery or for delivery through
the Thai or the GVN. The long-range problem of ammunition for AK-47s
has not been resolved, and we have advised our Embassy in Djakarta to
proceed with the first 2,500, but to avoid commitments on the remainder un-
til the issue can be sorted out. Our Embassy in Phnom Penh suggests that
direct delivery by the USAF from Djakarta would be the best way of deliver-
ing the AK-47s, and has pointed out that the only Cambodian sensitivity will
be irritation if they discover that they are getting AK-47s while the Indo-
nesians are getting the more desirable M-16s.
-- Embassy Bangkok has set up a Thai-U.S. working group to coordinate
supplies for the Thai-Khmer group presently in training. The most urgent
requirement is for training ammunition.
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Economic Aid: An IMF representative has spent three days in Cambodia
and has gotten a GOC request for a full IMF mission. We will support
the plan for an immediate mission with IMF officials in Washington, Hope-
fully, such a mission will identify Cambodia's priority economic require-
ments and will internationalize the assistance effort.
? -- The Netherlands Red Cross has made a token donation of some $Z, 000
for Cambodian relief.
-- The Australians have decided to withdraw Australian technicians from
the Prek Thnot darn project (a long-standing Mekong development project)
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in view of the insecurity of the area. The decision will be reviewed in
October.
-- Our recent support for Cambodian radio broadcasting operations has
included the provision of programs and scripts to up-grade the content. We
have finished installation of the temporary 10 KM transmitter to improve
coverage in the Koropong Som area (an American reporter discovered the
six Navy technicians who were ashore assisting the installation, but this
has not broken into a major story); and we are beginning to relay Cambodian
radio broadcasts into Western Cambodia through the use of two airborne
transmitters operating out of Thailand (this is a 90-day program).
-- Radio Hanoi has announced that a "Voice of the National United Front
of Kampuchea" will go on the air beginning August 1.
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