CIA releases intelligence files on Cambodia from 1986.

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:36 pm

HE ‘Unpredictable and Easily Angered,’ CIA Files Say
by George Wright | January 23, 2017

U.S. intelligence agents described Prime Minister HE in 1986 as unpredictable, hotheaded and “wary of strangers,” predicting that Vietnam would maintain a hold on Cambodia once they had pulled troops out of the country, according to declassified files.

The 1986 intelligence assessment, “Cambodia: ‘How Viable the Heng Samrin Regime?’” is part of more than 12 million pages of documents the CIA released online on Tuesday, which were previously available only at the U.S. National Archives in Maryland.
Written seven years after Vietnamese troops and a small group of Cambodian rebels including Mr. HE overthrew the Pol Pot regime, 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...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun- ... ay-123853/

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:13 am

What they thought about the late King Sihanouk:
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... w-sihanouk