Documents / Official release
This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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VARLOUS POLITICAL OPINIONS AND MORE SENSELESS WRITING LNCLUDING "SAMDECH PREAH SIHANOUK SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO GIVE GUIDELINES IN ASIA AND IN THE WORLD, TRANSFERRING NUCLEAR TARGETS INTO THE UNITED STATES. WE, THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE, CALL ON THE UFO SNIPERS TO DESTROY THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME NO LATER THAN THE YEAR 2000..." 4. (SBU) ON 08/04/00 ARSO ALAN CHIPMAN AND FSNI YARONG VAN MET WITH GENERAL SUN PAR LAO, DIRECTOR OF THE CRIMINAL DIVISLON OF THE CAMBODIAN POLICE CONCERNING THE LETTER AND REQUESTED AN INVESTIGATION OF NYMITH RANGSEY CHHORPONN. THE LOCAL GUARD FORCE WAS ADVISED TO NOTIFY THE REGIONAL SECURITY OFFICE OF ANY CONTACT OR FURTHER LNCLDENT CONCERNING THIS THREAT OR LETTER. THE SAME DAY ANOTHER LETTER WAS DELIVERED TO AMEMBASSY PHNOM PENH BY MR. SOKHAH PROM ON BEHALF OF NYMITH RANGSEY CHHORPONN. THE LOCAL GUARD FORCE IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED ARSO. 5. (SBU) ARSO AND FSNI CONTACTED THE CAMBODIAN PROTECTION POLICE ASSIGNED AT THE U.S. EMBASSY AND THE CAMBODIAN POLICE CRIMINAL DIVISION. THE POLICE DETATNED MR. SOKHAH PROM AND INTERVIEWED HIM AT MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND WERE ABLE TO LOCATE AND DETAIN MR. NYMITH RANGSEY CHHORPONN. CAMBODIAN POLICE OFFICIALS NOTIFIED ARSO THAT NYMITH RANGSEY CHHORPONN WOULD REMAIN IN POLICE CUSTODY AT LEAST UNTIL 8/05/00 AND THAT THEY WOULD NOTIFY THE EMBASSY IF HE WAS RELEASED. 6. (SBU) ARSO CONTACTED USSS AGENT (b)(7)(c) IN BANGKOK CONCERNING THE LETTER AND INDIVIDUAL. ARSO ALSO FAXED A COPY OF THE TRANSLATED SUMMARY OF THE LETTER TO THE USSS OFFICE. 7. (SBU) CAMBODIAN POLICE OFFICIALS ADVISED REGIONAL SECURITY OFFICE THAT MR. NYMITH RANGSEY CHHORPONN (b)(6) AND THEY WOULD CONTINUE WITH THE INVESTIGATION. CAMBODIAN POLICE DEMONSTRATED PROFESSIONAL ABILITY TO PEACEFULLY DETAIN SOKHAH PROM OUTSLDE OF THE EMBASSY AND THEN LOCATE AND DETAIN NYMITH RANGSEY CHHORPONN. THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT HAS LIMITED RESOURCES AND LIMITED SUPPORT (b)(6) REGIONAL SECURITY OFFICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE DECISIONS OF THE CAMBODIAN POLICE AND THE DISPOSITION OF NYMITH RANGSEY CHHORPONN AND ANY THREAT THAT MAY REMALN IF ANY. WIEDEMANN TOR: 08/04/00 23:38:03 DIST: SIT: beardsworth NSC CHRISTY CLARKER CRESSEY GORDON-HAGERTY GREEN JARRETT KURTZ LIEBERTHAL MCADEN MONTGOMERY ORFINI OSIUS OWENS PRITCHARD SMITHH TELLEEN
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.