CIA • 1973

THE IMPACT OF A COMMUNIST CAMBODIA

Appro,~ved For Release: CIA-RDP80TO19ROO0400280002-9 15 May 1973 THE IMPACT OF A COMMUNIST CAMBODIA* SUMMARY A Communist takeover in Cambodia would have the following - The immediate effect in Saigon would be politically and psychologically unsettling. The GVN would feel vulnerable and isolated, even though the South Vietnamese leaders would probably recognize that the situation in Cambodia would have little immediate impact on the Communist military position in South Vietnam. The fall of Cambodia would ease the logistic problems of the Communists in supplying their military forces in South Vietnam, and it would in time give the Communists more flexibility in developing and implementing their future strategies to take over South Vietnam...