In his confession at S-21, Yachtsman Kerry Hamil, who was captured last month, gives Colonel Sanders and Captain Pepper as his supposed CIA commanders & uses his parents’ friends’ names as fellow officers and his home telephone number as his CIA operative number. https://t.co/dNQFX5NdyI

The Khmer Rouge Voice of Democratic Kampuchea broadcast says Vietnam has undertaken “feverish diplomatic manoeuvres of seduction, in the way of a cat hiding its claws, in Southeast Asia” in order to isolate Cambodia internationally.

Writing about her trip to Cambodia for 🇸🇪’s Aftonbladet Marita Wikander describes a calm Cambodia and wonders if US Senator McGovern, who in August called for international military efforts to free Cambodia from a genocidal regime “is talking about this country” https://t.co/tPI17eLs65 Reporting in🇸🇪’s Dagens Nyheter from his recent trip, Hedvig Ekerwald says in Cambodia all get enough to eat, clothing without holes, decent housing, can participate politically and work at at will at a “calm pace”. He also rejects the “atrocity propaganda”: https://t.co/Fh2IdUPlot

Speaking to Turkish journalists, Pol Pot evaluates the abolishment of money in Cambodia three and a half years ago: https://t.co/fBrNxFB4gw

A Khmer Rouge broadcast charges: “The Le Duan-Van Dong clique carries out in the most savage & fascist way the racist policy by slaughtering the different nationalities living in Vietnam. It committed numerous crimes against the Khmer nationality in Kampuchea Krom”

Speaking at a press conference in Bangkok, Vietnam’s Premier Dong says “we will solve every problem we have with other countries step by step through mutual understanding and negotiations”, when asked about problems with China & Cambodia https://t.co/aZGOmdyioX

Referring to clashes between Vietnam and Cambodia & tension between Peking and Hanoi, F. Marcos, President of the Phillipines says: “rivalry among the superpowers continues to be the greatest single threat to Southeast Asia. https://t.co/y06v7Y44P1

Asked by Japanese journalists if Vietnam will expand its war with Cambodia, China’s Deng Xiaoping says “it is hard to make predictions. If the scale expands, it will start war against China.”

In Cambodia to present his credentials as Japanese Ambassador, Shoji Sato travels by train to Sisophon (due to flooding) & then by car to Angkor Wat. He said PhnomPenh had more people than expected, he saw no armed guards in countryside & workers seemed “at ease”.

More than 300 Cambodian soldiers are being held as prisoners of war in Vietnam’s Xuan Loc Province. All were said to have been carrying arms on Vietnamese territory when captured. Many are young boys aged between 12 and 13. https://t.co/Ru4dhGJslt Speaking at a banquet in Peking, Khmer Rouge Nr.2 Nuon Chea expresses his gratitude to China for the received aid, encouragements and supports which have “reinforced Cambodia’s independence and sovereignty”. “🇰🇭has crushed 🇻🇳’s strategy of an “Indochina Federation”