3 U.S. REPORTERS LOST IN CAMBODIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100450007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 11, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2,p/~~~1~8
1 i MAY 1970
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Three American reporters, .
;including Richard Dudman; ~ Y a; f
;chief Washington correspond. ;
:ent of the St. Louis Post-Dis..;?'
.patch, are missing in Cam??~ _`?
~bodia and are believed' cap- '
'lured by the Vietcong.
,
? The others are Elizabeth.
;Pond of the Christian Science .
`ternational,
The three left Saigon in a
Vicar ~'h
d
i
urs
ay morn
ng and
'were expected back Friday. ,
quiries showed that they ap?,
parently drove west on Rte. 1,'
.which runs 135 miles from Sai?
?.~
. ~ ..~,
~ '~;.:~
Cambodia. - ? RICIIARD DUDMAN .~
They apparently crossed the ...capture [eared
border into Cambodia and ?
j35 miles inside Cambodia in
?thc Parrot's Beak area.
'' Thcy are known to have
tbcen stopped on Rte. 1 at a
f checkpoint 'manned by the.
~Cambodlan army. Last Thurs?'
day and Friday, Cambodian
,units were in command of Rte.
rl? about 2'/z miles west of Svay
$ieng. ;
'Later, at a time not yet de?
'termined, their empty car was
,found on a secondary road Z~/z'
miles from Svay Rieng. It ~ is
4belteved~ `.that: they ];eft:;Rt+e~: '
Cambodian army roadblock.
In Saigon, two Japanese cor~
respondents who had been in
the area said they had heard
local reports that three Ameri-
can correspondents, had been
Sources .within the ;.Army oi:
South. Vietnam,~whlch is fight=;
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Dudman, 52, is, a veteran of
many overseas assignments
and had been in Southeast
Asia" at least seven times ber
fore. Marquis Childs, contrib-
uting editor to the St. Louis
Post?l~ispatch and senior cor-
respondent in its Washington.
bureau,' said that Dudman ar?
rived in Bangkok on April 27
after atwo-week vacation in
-Europe with his family. The
Dudmans live at 3409 Newark
St. NW. '
Miss Pond who is about 35,
has been a correspondent for
the Christian Science Monitor
for many years, mostly work-
ing- in Boston. Two years ago
she became its correspondent
in CzechosloWakia, and a year
ago in Saigon. ? '
' 'She toolt a ye~r.'r ;leave' of
(was appointed an Alicia Pat'
~terson Foundation fellow. She
chose to do research work'itti
Saigon and had been schedu-+
'icd to return to active report-~
Ing in .Vietnam on July 1.
Morrow, 24, left Dartmouth
to ,go to Taiwan and Saigon. In
Saigon he married a Vietnam?~
"cse, ?? the former Christina ~
Vinh. , IIe formed Dispatch
News Service, .Inc., from
which Dispatch Newa was
formed. The two now have no
connection..
Dispatch News' Seymour
Hersh recently won the Pu-
litzer Prize for reporting the:
Mylai incident.
Seven other newsmen-two
of them Americans-vanished,
in Cambodia ~ early in April]
and are believed to have been
taken' prisoner ; by, the .Vletr
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