MALAGASY NATIONAL POLICE

its findings, with its recommendations as to appropriate U. S. assist­
ance which may be offered to the Government of Madagascar, to improve
the police force capability, including the furnishing of U. S. techni­
cians to administer such assistance program as may result from the sur­
vey and to assist the Malagasy police in training their personnel espe­
cially in connection with the use and maintenance of any U. S. furnished
equipment. Final determination of the scope and size of any U. S. police
assistance program to the Malagasy Republic will be made by ICA/W."
G. Conference with the Minister of the Interior
1. On 17 October 1961, Admiral Elliott B. Strauss, the 'USOM Direc­
tor, introduced the Public Safety Survey Team to Minister Andre Resampa,
at the latter's office in the Department of the Interior. Also present
were Victor Ramanitra, former Director General of the National Police,
and now Procureur General (Attorney General), and Pierre Bora who was
appointed Director General of the National Police on 1 October 1961.
2. The Minister of the Interior opened the meeting at .0900 hours
by reviewing his previous request submitted to Assistant Secretary of
State G. Mennen Williams at Tananarive on 21 August 1961. The Minister
thentprceeded to. stress.particularly the-threat-oAtRed,,Chinese infiltra­
tion of Madagascar by way of the East Coast, in the general vicinity of
the port of Tamatave, where the greater portion of the Chinese popula­
tion live. Mr. Ramanitra showed on the map the location of the main
Chinese colonies upon Mr. Thurston t s request and reaffirmed the urgent
need for an air-sea coastal patrol.
3. Mr. Thurston intervened then and said in essence: "We have some­
what the same problem on our west coast and in the state of Hawaii.
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