445. Paper Prepared by the Assistant White House Staff Secretary (Eisenhower)1
SYNOPSIS OF STATE AND INTELLIGENCE MATERIAL REPORTED TO THE PRESIDENT
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Laos
Our Embassy in Bangkok is following up their contact with ex-Prime Minister Phoui. He has submitted a plan of action which involves essentially support for the active resistance movement in Savannakhet in the establishment of a special resistance center in or near Vientiane. This center would employ a psychological warfare to include encouraging dissension in the Second Paratroop Battalion, spreading rumors and the like.2
Meanwhile, Sarit in Thailand has made statements recommending Soviet proposals for economic relations. These statements are viewed only as efforts to underscore Bangkok’s complaint that neutrals receive better treatment than committed nations. However, the statements themselves may stimulate leftist and neutralist elements in Thailand.
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- Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret.↩
- Reported in telegram 817 from Bangkok, November 7. (Department of State, Central Files, 751J.00/11–760; included in the microfiche supplement)↩