ABSENCE OF AMERICAN PRISONERS AT A PATHET LAO PRISON LOCATED ON A ROUTE 911 BYP

Created: 9/6/1969

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LATE JULY

ABSENCE OF AMERICAN PRISONERSATHET LAO PRISON LOCATEDYPASS IN SOUTHEASTERN XHA.1KOUANE PROVINCE

IN SOUIHFASIESN KHAKROUAHEMERICAN AND

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ONE IHAl HAD BEEN INCARCERATED IN THE PRISON IN FOUR LAO NATIONAL WERE IKPRISONEO THERE AS OF JULY. THE PRISON VAS GUARDED

BY IS PATHET LAO AND SIX NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY SOLDIERS.

ID NOT KNOW VHAI HAD BECOME OFPRISONERS AFIER7 OR IF ANY OTHER FOREIGNBEEN 'ClO IN THElKrftB IM ' iO

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COMMENT. INAO REPORTEDRISON LOCATED AT BAN THAPACHOKAPPROXIMATELYETERS SOUTHEAST OF THEUNCTION, HOUSEDOREIGN AIRMEN, INCLUDINGMERICANS, THREE THAIS AND TVO FILIPINOS. ECOND SOUftCC D ON m JUNE THAT THE PRISONOTAL OFRISONERS, ONLY F VHOM VERE FOREIGNERS, INCLUDING AMERICANS, THAIS ANO FILIPINOS. THE PRISONERS VERE DETAINEDAVE AREA. THE PRISON CITED IN PARA ORE IS PROBABLY IDENTICAL VITK THEOS ABOVE. IT IS POSSIBLE THAI THE PRISONERS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO AOIHER

AREA. RECEN1

THE AREA INDICATED THATS NO LONGER PC TOR ABLE AS

A RESULT OF HEAVY RAINS, NO TRAFFIC HAS BEEN OI?iRVEDHE NUMEROUS BYPASSES. THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE ftBtY ACTIVITY IK THE AREA SOUTH OF THE3 JUNCTKI SINCE MD-JUNE,

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