Editorial Note: Secret Monitoring of the Micronesian Independence Movement

Editorial Note: Secret Monitoring of the Micronesian Independence Movement. Department of State. 2012-11-29.

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Abstract: FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1969–1976, VOLUME E–12, DOCUMENTS ON EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1973–1976

313. Editorial Note On August 30, 1973, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger received and subsequently approved a proposal, originally requested by the National Security Council staff, that the U.S. Government secretly monitor the Micronesian independence movement and influence it to support U.S. objectives. (Memorandum from Froebe, August 30; National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 209, Agency Files, CIA, Vol. VI.) In January 1975, the Micronesia program began and in April 1975, the U.S. government monitored discussions of the Micronesian negotiating team on Saipan as part of an effort to discover the negotiating position and tactics of the Joint Committee on Future Status of the Congress of Micronesia in its talks with the United States. Monitoring was periodically undertaken until November 1975, but the recorded conversations either possessed no intelligence value or were in a language that could not be translated through secure channels. The resultant audiotapes were returned to Washington in August 1976 and subsequently destroyed...