Vietnam, Cambodia "defence cooperation in order to...foil plots to weaken their relations"
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How Vietnam "foil plots" (democratic elections) to keep its CPP puppet in power in its destruction of CambodiaHun Sen ‘Unpredictable and Easily Angered,’ CIA Files Say
1986
intelligence assessment, “Cambodia: ‘How Viable the Heng Samrin
Regime?’”...CIA
released online on Tuesday [17 Jan. 2017], which were previously available only at the
U.S. National Archives in Maryland...
“The government is still dominated by Vietnamese advisers, the Army
remains politically unreliable and tactically inept.”
As a result, the Vietnamese would have to take covert measures in order to conceal its influence after its withdrawal, it says.
“Hanoi appears to recognize that the PRK’s weakness renders its withdrawal timetable unrealistic, and we believe it will have to use subterfuges, such as incorporating Vietnamese troops into Cambodian units, to conceal its presence beyond 1990,” it says. “In the meantime, we expect Vietnam to promote aggressively an image that the PRK is making rapid progress toward internal self-sufficiency in hopes of eroding international support for the Cambodian resistance,” |
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