SUGGESTION FOR PLEBISCITE ON MALAYSIA
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CIA-RDP79T00429A001400010015-5
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2
Document Creation Date:
December 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
March 15, 2005
Sequence Number:
15
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Publication Date:
November 20, 1963
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MF
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accept it as a face saving fa mula under which
could back away from its "confrontation" polio
1. Ambassador Jones suggests that Indonesia
animus toward Malaysia could be turned aside by a
provision for holding a plebiscite in Sarawak anti
x"abab, two or three years hence, to determine fi-
nally popular aspiration s concerning independence
or continued identification with Malaysia.
2. icb a proposition could only gain accept-
from both sides if (a) Indonesia were prepared
eve toward a reconciliation with Malaysia and
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
Suggestion for Plebiscite
on siaaysia
made this position knaarn in an unequivocal way to
the Malaysian government; or (b) the Malaysian
without any such assurances in (a),
prepared to enter the protect, on the assump-
on that by winning a plebiscite it would end In-