Hun Sen ‘Unpredictable and Easily Angered,’ CIA Files Say
The Cambodia Daily | 23 January 2017
..the
assessment gives insight into how the CIA viewed Vietnam’s plans to
fully hand over power to the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK), led
by the same CPP leaders who still rule the country today.
The report says that Vietnam realized its 1985 public pledge to withdraw its forces—estimated at 130,000 to 140,000—from Cambodia by 1990 was “unrealistic” due to the ineptitude of their Cambodian counterparts.
“Development of PRK institutions has been slow and erratic,” the assessment says. “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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