20 January 1977

5. In a speech, Pol Pot complains that “new people” keep fleeing to Vietnam & Thailand.

“In 1976, we expelled 3 major spy networks”, but warns Pol Pot, “the danger is not over”, as he had identified “a sickness”: “We search for the microbes within the Party without success”.

4. @CIA writes a research study on Cambodia:

-Khmer Rouge = “most extreme of the world’s totalitarian regimes”
-🇰🇭’s political system “uniquely” vague
– disease and the regime’s systematic eliminations of all connected to previous regimes possibly killed > 10% of the population https://t.co/NcmT8DVnfC

A recap on what happened in Cambodia in December 1976 under the Khmer Rouge:

1. Border incidents with Thailand continue
2. KR also report several small military confrontations at the Vietnamese border.
3. @XHNews visited Cambodia for 2 weeks, as did a Cuban delegation.