9:30. Directors of AIM [Asian Institute of Management].
9:45 AM. Sec. [Carlos] Romulo and Amb. [Eduardo] Romualdez. The latter feels that the spiriting out of Mrs. Raul Manglapus through Kuala Lumpur was through Clark Air Force Base, and a CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] project. He feels that the Americans did not learn their lesson in Vietnam’s (the assassination of Ngo Yeng Diem [sic] [Ngo Dinh Diem] has been confessed to by Amb. Lodge as an American project) and that they are protecting alternative leaders to take my place.
I feel he may be too apprehensive but we are taking precaution and looking into all CIA operations.
Madrigals—I asked Danny [Daniel Vazquez] and Ising [Maria Luisa Madrigal-Vazquez] to make a listing of their properties to which Tony [Antonio Madrigal], Belek [Jose Madrigal] and the others can comment.
VTR [videotape recording] of the Pulong Pulong Sa Kaunlaran on Foreign Affairs.
We may have to hasten the process of normalizing by:
- Conducting elections of an Advisory Legislative Council under the supervision of the Comelec [Commission on Elections] by the Citizens Assemblies.
- The old newspapers must be investigated formally and their closure directed after formal hearing.
- The same for other media.
The financiers and oligarchs who may finance farther violence should now be neutralized.
Formal charges have to be filed against [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.], [Jose] Diokno, [Gerardo] Roxas, [Ramon] Mitra, Manglapus even if the trials may be delayed.
We must now reduce the number of detention prisoners.
Continue the reorganization of the government.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.
Push away the capitalists trying to get close to me.