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Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000172 # Situation in Laos The Laotian Government has warned the USSR that it would have to take defensive measures if the Soviet airlift in support of the Kong Le - Pathet Lao forces continued. Four armed T-6 trainers, which will be employed against the Soviet IL-14s arrived in Vientiane on 10 January. The Pathet Lao radio has already reacted in strong terms to the arrival of the T-6s. In a broadcast on 10 January, a spokesman for the Neo Lao Hak Sat (NLHS)--the Pathet Lao political front--denounced provision of the planes to the Boun Oum government as a violation of the 1954 Geneva accords and stated that unless they were withdrawn, the "Laotian people will propose that the legal (Souvanna Phouma) government take steps to resist them." Chiang Ching-kuo, Nationalist China's security chief, would be willing to send 2,000 Nationalist irregular troops from the Mekong River area of Burma to be used in Laos. Chiang said the troops he wanted to send would be highly trained special forces equipped with light arms and mortars and would carry Laotian documents and insignia. He emphasized that the offer had not yet been made to Phoumi, but he thought there was a good chance that he would accept if it were made. In late September, Chiang made similar unofficial approaches and asserted that he would not use the irregulars without advising and consulting the United States. Soviet IL-14s made nine confirmed flights into Laos on 10 January, and additional flights from Hanoi into Laos are scheduled for 11 January. Three North Vietnamese transports are scheduled for Sam Neua on the same day. Three Chinese Communist civil transports flew from Nanning to SECRET 11 Jan 61 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN Page 4 Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000172

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