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112. Then talk to Trudeau, the Doonesbury cartoonist, who

Referenced this alliance on and off for several years, while it was occurring.

Also look up who voted with us in the United Nations, and that was the givene reason for the alliance between Pol Pt and the USA -we needed Cambodia to side with us.

Or you can read one of the better indie journalists out there, John Pilger:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/UncleSam_PolPot.html

The Long Secret Alliance:
Uncle Sam and Pol Pot
by John Pilger
Covert Action Quarterly Fall 1997


The US not only helped create conditions that brought Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively supported the genocidal force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was secretly funding Pol Pots exiled forces on the Thai border. The extent of this support-$85 million from 1980 to 1986-was revealed six years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Winer said the information had come from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). When copies of his letter were circulated, the Reagan administration was furious. Then, without adequately explaining why, Winer repudiated the statistics, while not disputing that they had come from the CRS. In a second letter to Noam Chomsky, however, Winer repeated the original charge, which, he confirmed to me, was "absolutely correct.''