By John Connor
Further to my letter I can now detail CIA involvement in the 1959 plot.
This from William Colby, ex-head of CIA, in his book "Honorable Men" 1978, pp 149 - 150
"The first problem I had to deal with hit me on my first day in Saigon (1959), in fact on the drive into town from the airport. The wife of the officer who met us flagged us down on the street to tell him that a message had just come in that he handle immediately. A “flap” – the CIA word for crisis – was ahead in Cambodia.
Neutralist Prince Sihanouk, who had recognized China only a few months before, was thought by the Thai and South Vietnamese to be an advance agent, or at least a supply channel, for the spread of Communism to their borders.
And they found a sympathetic Cambodian General who thought the same way and whom they were assisting in his preparations for a coup against the Prince. (General Lon Nol?)
CIA was well aware of these machinations through its “unilateral” sources in both those countries and, in response to the White House and State’s policy, was doing its best to dissuade the Thai and Vietnamese from this venture, which we felt was unlikely to succeed and would only exacerbate the problems of dealing with Sihanouk.
But to be certain that we would know what was happening among the coup-makers, CIA had recruited an agent on the Cambodian General’s staff, and had given him a radio with which to keep us informed. And we were indeed informed.
But our efforts to dissuade our allies did not work, and they went ahead with the coup. And it came out as we expected, a failure.
Unfortunately, in putting down the coup, Sihanouk had captured our agent and his radio. And, not un-naturally, he drew the conclusion that CIA was one of the participants, and that the gold and arms furnished from Bangkok and Saigon to be used against him were only part of the over-all plot of which the radio was a key element.
In his mind, his “War with the CIA,” as he titled his book, had begun, and the Agency (CIA) was taught a vital lesson – that our operations would be judged as much for what they seemed to be as for what they really were. It was a lesson many of us had trouble learning, and it would plague us in later years as well.”
It seems the US did learn some lessons to be used in 1970
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Power_Elite_6.htm
“Nixon and Kissinger, along with John Negroponte ** (Kissinger aide, officer in charge of Vietnam at the National Security Council) arranged a chaos-creating government coup in Cambodia in March 1970. Generating further resentment, the U.S. installed Lon Nol who collected millions in U.S. economic aid. He declared himself Chief of State, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces after he disbanded the Assembly in October 1971 in order to declare emergency rule. He then permitted the U.S. to carpet bomb Cambodia.32
Lon Nol retired to Hawaii on April 1, 1975 with a half million dollars, compliments of the American taxpayers.33 What followed? - Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the killing fields, the liquidation of the middle class, famine, the destruction of the economy and concentration camps.”
So much for American “Democracy and Liberty”
How about $60 billion for war crimes in Indochina - $20 bn for each nations.
John Connor
June 29, 2010
Further to my letter I can now detail CIA involvement in the 1959 plot.
This from William Colby, ex-head of CIA, in his book "Honorable Men" 1978, pp 149 - 150
"The first problem I had to deal with hit me on my first day in Saigon (1959), in fact on the drive into town from the airport. The wife of the officer who met us flagged us down on the street to tell him that a message had just come in that he handle immediately. A “flap” – the CIA word for crisis – was ahead in Cambodia.
Neutralist Prince Sihanouk, who had recognized China only a few months before, was thought by the Thai and South Vietnamese to be an advance agent, or at least a supply channel, for the spread of Communism to their borders.
And they found a sympathetic Cambodian General who thought the same way and whom they were assisting in his preparations for a coup against the Prince. (General Lon Nol?)
CIA was well aware of these machinations through its “unilateral” sources in both those countries and, in response to the White House and State’s policy, was doing its best to dissuade the Thai and Vietnamese from this venture, which we felt was unlikely to succeed and would only exacerbate the problems of dealing with Sihanouk.
But to be certain that we would know what was happening among the coup-makers, CIA had recruited an agent on the Cambodian General’s staff, and had given him a radio with which to keep us informed. And we were indeed informed.
But our efforts to dissuade our allies did not work, and they went ahead with the coup. And it came out as we expected, a failure.
Unfortunately, in putting down the coup, Sihanouk had captured our agent and his radio. And, not un-naturally, he drew the conclusion that CIA was one of the participants, and that the gold and arms furnished from Bangkok and Saigon to be used against him were only part of the over-all plot of which the radio was a key element.
In his mind, his “War with the CIA,” as he titled his book, had begun, and the Agency (CIA) was taught a vital lesson – that our operations would be judged as much for what they seemed to be as for what they really were. It was a lesson many of us had trouble learning, and it would plague us in later years as well.”
It seems the US did learn some lessons to be used in 1970
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Power_Elite_6.htm
“Nixon and Kissinger, along with John Negroponte ** (Kissinger aide, officer in charge of Vietnam at the National Security Council) arranged a chaos-creating government coup in Cambodia in March 1970. Generating further resentment, the U.S. installed Lon Nol who collected millions in U.S. economic aid. He declared himself Chief of State, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces after he disbanded the Assembly in October 1971 in order to declare emergency rule. He then permitted the U.S. to carpet bomb Cambodia.32
Lon Nol retired to Hawaii on April 1, 1975 with a half million dollars, compliments of the American taxpayers.33 What followed? - Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the killing fields, the liquidation of the middle class, famine, the destruction of the economy and concentration camps.”
So much for American “Democracy and Liberty”
How about $60 billion for war crimes in Indochina - $20 bn for each nations.
John Connor
June 29, 2010
3 comments:
Don't trust no one, especially the WHITE MEN. Everywhere the WHITE MEN go problems follow. White people are pure evils-history reveals it.
Asian man
Lon Nol and Sirik Matak thought that by getting rid of Sihanouk they can lead Cambodia to peace and prosperity. The opposite happened because these two men are too dumb to foresee calamity caused by their stupid actions. They hated the Vietnamese, but they supported South Vietnam. It doesn't make sense because both South Vietnam and North Vietnam have the same ambition of swallowing Cambodia. That's what happened in 1979 when the united Vietnam invaded Cambodia.
I just spent 4 days being ripped off and lied to by Asian men, seems you are no better than "white" men. Enough with your racism, look in a mirror hypocrite.
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