ABSTRACT
Of all the countries of Southeast Asia, it seems to me Cambodia stands out as the one where the involvement of the United States has been most obscured from the American public. But that involvement has been extensive, critical to the shaping of its political history, and has had a deep effect on its present character. No doubt the obscuring of this deplorable record has in part been a consequence of its having been so heavily overshadowed by the attention deservedly focused on the glaring brutality of the Pol Pot regime. But the record of American involvement must be laid bare if one is to understand events in Cambodia leading up to and following its invasion by American troops on 30 April 1970.
