1970 Cambodian coup d'état event
also: Sahanak overthrow in 1970, Lon Null's coup of March 1970, CIA coup in 1970, Sinonuk's overthrow, the coup of March 18, 1970, the Long Null Coup of 1970, overthrow of the prince
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Seymour Hersh exposed
1970 Cambodian coup d'état book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 4:58
CIA funded
1970 Cambodian coup d'état host_asserted
“who was then the ambassador to Tokyo, and Song Sak, who was the Khmer Syri leader and alleged CIA agent, and Phnom Penh, and that they had a budget of $10 million and used CIA personnel for the coup. The analysis of the coup and La Mayonne,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 39:33
CIA linked_to
1970 Cambodian coup d'état host_asserted
“The power of the U.S. and Japanese oil interests with the new Suharto regime is likewise a matter of public record. The Long Null Coup of 1970, like the coups of 64 in Saigon and 64 in Laos, would have been counterproductive if they had not…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 45:44
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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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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…
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as a result of which a French company drilled the first oil well unsuccessfully in 1971. Leases in the adjacent offshore waters of Thailand had been awarded in September 1968 to six oil companies, five of which were American. This lent urge…
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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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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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were all spearheaded by CIA-trained Khmer Syri with some U.S. embeds. In the weeks and months following the coup of March 18, 1970, it became abundantly clear that the most reliable cadre in the Cambodian army were those recruited and train…
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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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The power of the U.S. and Japanese oil interests with the new Suharto regime is likewise a matter of public record. The Long Null Coup of 1970, like the coups of 64 in Saigon and 64 in Laos, would have been counterproductive if they had not…