Norodom Sihanouk person
also: Shanak, Sunak, Prince Sihanouk, Chananuk, Prince Saramatak, Prince Shenanug, Prince Thananak, Sahanak, Shannanuk, Shanonuk, Shanuk, Shanunak, Sinonuk, King of Cambodia, Prince Nahonok, Sahankuk, Suhanak, Shahanak, Sahanek, the king
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Claims (6)
Army Green Berets targeted_for_regime_change
Norodom Sihanouk book_quoted
“in 1970 had been for years a high priority of the U.S. Green Beret reconnaissance units operating inside of Cambodia since the late 1960s. Hearst reports in particular that U.S. intelligence officials proposed to insert a U.S.-trained assas…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 5:28
Lon Nol overthrew
Norodom Sihanouk book_quoted
“Lon Null's coup of March 1970, which paved the way for the American and South Vietnamese invasion, was only the ultimate and most visible stage of a shift of power that had begun three years before. This was due to, quote, pressures which w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 9:48
Norodom Sihanouk appointed
Lon Nol book_quoted
“Shanunak shifted to be more aligned with the U.S., received Chester Bowles, B-O-W-L-E-S, in January 1968, and we covered him when we covered Cambodia in our world tour, and began increasingly to crack down on the Khmer Rouge and NLF troops.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 11:47
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
Norodom Sihanouk book_quoted
“Henry Kissinger and Nixon ordered bombing strikes against bases in Cambodia. In other words, secret strikes for the two months of the covert defoliation program were ordered by the advisor, who is chairman of the National Security Council S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 29:07
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Norodom Sihanouk book_quoted
“Henry Kissinger and Nixon ordered bombing strikes against bases in Cambodia. In other words, secret strikes for the two months of the covert defoliation program were ordered by the advisor, who is chairman of the National Security Council S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 29:07
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Norodom Sihanouk documented
“Sinonuk's overthrow, the New York Times report revealed that the U.S. had used the Khmerist theory, an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the legitimate government of Cambodia on covert missions in that country in 1967, according to…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 34:50
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tell us more about the internal reasons for Cambodia's collapse in the 1970s, but both books either discount or ignore external factors to which I refer, above all of the intervention of U.S., Japanese, and Indonesian covert operators. Neit…
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in 1970 had been for years a high priority of the U.S. Green Beret reconnaissance units operating inside of Cambodia since the late 1960s. Hearst reports in particular that U.S. intelligence officials proposed to insert a U.S.-trained assas…
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It also raises grave questions about the role of President Nixon and his political backers. An undoubted crisis had been slowly developing for some years in Cambodia under the more and more nominal leadership of Prince Shenanug. In retrospe…
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These needs had been met largely by U.S. economic and military assistance. When in 1963, Shanuk terminated the agreement with the U.S. in his efforts to remain free of political persecution, the flow of dollars stopped. And since 1964, ther…
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a rapprochement with the American-dominated World Bank and the IMF, which is a kiss of death, and the Asian Development Bank, all of which had prospects of aid to the abandonment by Shannanuk of his faltering experiments in the way he was m…
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Shanunak shifted to be more aligned with the U.S., received Chester Bowles, B-O-W-L-E-S, in January 1968, and we covered him when we covered Cambodia in our world tour, and began increasingly to crack down on the Khmer Rouge and NLF troops.…
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profiles along the shelf at opportune times while in transit between major projects in the region. So in other words, they were doing all this shit and didn't tell anybody. Well, didn't tell all of the people. They told the people they cont…
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If we now look at covert U.S. military operations and intelligence for the same period, a complex picture becomes much simpler in which the long-range operation of economic factors turns out to have been helped along by bureaucratic means. …
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basically influenced Shanonuk to talk publicly in July and August about accepting U.S. aid again and inviting the U.S. back in. After being questioned by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, Thomas Pickering of the State Department, who …
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President Nixon's covert operations against Cambodia in the first year of his presidency are part of a series dating back to that era when he was vice president in 1958 and 59. The CIA financed, equipped, and advised the brief military upri…
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had been premier of Cambodia under the Japanese reign when they were invaded during World War II. To show CIA complicity in the uprising, Shananuk is said to have given as evidence the fact that a political officer from the U.S. Embassy, a …
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in both Cambodia and South Vietnam for special missions inside of Cambodia and for the recruitment and training of paramilitary forces from the large ethnic Khmer minority of the Delta provinces of South Vietnam. They are setting up more Op…
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Sinonuk's overthrow, the New York Times report revealed that the U.S. had used the Khmerist theory, an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the legitimate government of Cambodia on covert missions in that country in 1967, according to…
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renewed his charges that the CIA was still plotting against him as they had in 1959. The Khmer Syri harassment, especially along the Thai border, markedly increased. The changes had since been, the charges had been corroborated. A Greenbrae…
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said the clandestine operation in Cambodia was directed from South Vietnam by the CIA. The mission was known as Operation Cherry. It involved McCarthy working undercover as a member of the Khmer Seri. According to the same New York Times ar…
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1967, when Long Nol was briefly prime minister. But the indications are that the Khmer series retained their identity, their militant opposition to the prince, and their links to the U.S. CIA. In other words, it was all bullshit. Of these, …
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even when diplomatic relations with Cambodia had been broken off. A man by the name of Wilford Burkett, B-U-R-C-H-E-T-T, has charged that more violent events surrounding the overthrow of the prince, like the planned raids against North Viet…
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does not imply that the Cambodian history in 1970 followed a master blueprint, but it does have CIA fingerprints all over it. The intelligence structures of other nations were also involved, like Thailand and South Vietnam. The prince himse…
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A team of Cambodian officers secretly visited Indonesia last November, which would have been 1969, and again in January to study in depth how the Indonesian army managed to overthrow President Sukarno in 1965. This, some Indonesians say, ga…
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Warhamster always talks about the 20th century equivalent is multinational like large corporations and operate as a syndicate. Yeah, we noticed after the fall of the prince proceeded to it. It basically resulted in the dividing up of the wh…
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and all of the other areas participated in the planning of the coup. And it's instructive for it is a striking fact that successful military coups against Sukarno in 1965, like the unsuccessful military uprising in 1958, was not only linked…
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Fuma were neutralist. The U.S. strategy of subversion practiced against Sovana Fuma in Laos was more like that practiced by Shanak in Cambodia and more conspicuously against Sukarno in Indonesia, where the civil air transport provided compl…
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But there is also instructive differences between what happened in Laos and what happened in Cambodia and Indonesia. Cambodia, and particularly Indonesia, were countries of interest to U.S. oil companies, and both Sahanak and Sukarno, unlik…
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ongoing operations that were occurring in Latin America. So he basically was right back home. The American activities in Cambodia were not new either. According to Prince Nahonok, who basically filled all of the different roles as king, pri…
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since the days when Nixon had served as vice president, according to the quote-unquote king of Cambodia. Nixon himself knew about all of what was going on, obviously, in Cambodia. And he visited Phnom Penh in early 1953, which was the capit…
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Soon after, in 1954, after the Geneva agreements that we didn't pay any attention to, the United States had been instrumental in setting up a regional alliance in the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization called CETO, S-E-A-T-O. Cambodia was …
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Sahankuk remained head of state throughout the 50s and 60s. He remained committed to neutrality. Oh, so you know that that's a death sentence, right? We've already discovered that. Despite increasing pressures to take a side, the Americans …
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was adamant in resisting and came to regard the desire for dollars as a disease among Cambodians. In 1965, he rejected further aid and diplomatic relations with the U.S. So the U.S. then, quote unquote, broke off relations because there was…
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America's effort to change this basic situation went beyond diplomatic exchanges, so much so that Suhanak entitled his memoirs of this period, My War with the CIA. That's the name of his book, My War with the CIA. Before the break in diplom…
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U.S.'s embassy personnel, identified as CIA officers by the Khmer intelligence, had reached 27 people in a relatively small embassy. Sahanek actually believed that number was much larger. He also believed that Robert McClintock, the America…
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the supervisor of the Guatemalan operation success as the American ambassador to the adjoining country in Thailand, which didn't make the king feel any better because they had already overthrown at least one government. It was in Thailand a…
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A more clearly attributable plot arose in 1958 when the Americans forged a direct relationship with a Cambodian army regional commander by the name of Dap Chuhan. It was hoped that a reincarnation of the strategy that had failed in Indonesi…
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That their option two, because they always have a second option, was to basically declare the area that the CIA actually wanted, which was near the Mekong River, basically create a separatist movement like they did in Qatar and like Panama …
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Suspicions were aroused when Dap Chuong, sudden popularity among all of the American visitors. That would be a dead giveaway. The stream included Edward Lansdale of CIA fame. Other generals that were stationed in South Vietnamese, the Pacif…
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And activity began being coordinated by an American at the Phnom Penh embassy by the name of Victor Matsui, a former Marine identified by the king as a CIA agent as well. And it was said that he had spent already by this time over a million…
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Chuan plot was broken up in the spring of 1959 when the king dispatched his army chief of staff, a guy by the name of Long Nol, to arrest the commander. Long Nol killed him instead. As Dap Chuan's villa, Khmer authorities found two South Vi…
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Nixon nonetheless forged ahead in Cambodia because, you know, what's the big deal? It's just a dead body. The apparent willingness of the U.S. to act encouraged those Khmer who opposed the king's neutrality. This was especially true for Pri…
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So in March 1970, when the king was abroad, Long Nol launched a coup and overthrew the chief of state and plunged Cambodia into the Indochina War. The extent of American complicity in the coup has long been disputed. But what is not dispute…
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about the coup, there is no doubt that the Khmer Siri owed their status to the CIA. Sources range from the king to Long Nol's own army commanders who agreed that without the funding of the CIA, these are the guys that actually put the coup …
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presses were official versions of his memoirs. He argues that, quote, we neither encouraged the King's overthrow nor knew about it in advance. We did not even grasp its significance for many weeks, unquote. Bold face lies. Not until the ver…
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In the first days of March, however, an Air Force pilot flew a party of about 60 American diplomats and military officers to Phnom Penh for secret talks. He believes the purpose of this highly classified mission was to basically affect the …