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(Estimated Pub Date) the Challenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990S: Geographic Perspectives- October 1995

Central Intelligence Agency · 1995-10-01 · 205 pages · text from the file's own layer

This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.

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Cold War will undoubtedly be of some help in formu-
lating future policies and plans. Until recently, access
to sensitive records on such subjects was extremely
restricted. Next year information on developments
over the past 30 years in Indochina and Indonesia
should be much more readily available. A clear vision
of the future will most probably be enhanced by an
objective and unbiased understanding of the recent
past. Perhaps before long we shall learn much more
about the role of foreign intelligence agencies in the
generation of clandestine tribal armies in northern
Laos, in the overthrow of the Cambodian monarchy in
1970, and in the assumption of power of a Westem-
oriented military regime in Indonesia. As events have
often proven, the short run triumphs of political tacti-
cians can sometimes result in the ruin of long-term
strategic plans (i.e. Iran). Scholarly investigation of
the past may prove to be of more than passing utility
in charting the future.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.