On the effort to maintain pence with Malaysia.
Imelda’s visit and my letter to Pres. Soeharto.
Gen. Yoga’s promise query. Gen. [Fabian] Ver’s answer.
I met with Gen. Yoga last night to receive the message from Pres. Soeharto. Pres. Soeharto requests we do not publicize our charges against Malaysia in any of the international forums. I agreed. He (Gen. Yoga) informed me that his deputy has met with Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and Sabah’s Tun Mustapha with favorable results. They promised to keep it out of the public forum too. In fact Gen. Yoga revealed that Razak scolded Tun Mustapha who said he did not receive the Libyan money anymore.
This morning I met Ahmed, Director of Research (Intelligence) of Razak. I told him that I was depending on him to maintain peace in our area—between the Phil. And U.S.; that our AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] Force are build-up to 100,000 men then to 256,000 men purchase of missiles, boats and aircraft is not aggressive or intended for anything else but defense; neither is the building of airfields in the south which are intended for commercial aviation. And I hope that the build-up by both the Phil. and Malaysia will not result in a confrontation which we cannot afford.
I repeated the theme on the 39th Anniversary of the Philippine Air Force which was attended by the Malaysian ambassador.
Pres. Soeharto meets with Razak at Penang tomorrow so that my statements should have been reported to tltem by their ambassador and intelligence officers by the time they meet.
The 256,000 men of the AFP should convince Razak into peace.
The Red Chinese basketball team (tall and husky) is also here. I am sure they will report the AFP build-up to their leaders. The Red Chinese gave sanctuary to the survivors of the “Doña Andrea” which was an operation similar to the “Karagatan” except that the Doña Andrea sunk 150 miles off the Chinese mainland. Amb. Sullivan reports that airplane (Chinese Red) flew to the spot of the sinking and honored or flew around the area until the survivors were rescued by a Czeck boat and brought to Hongkong from where they withdrew to Red China.
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