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UNCLAS PHNOM PENH 000562 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR PM-HDP, DRL, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP AND S/GHD 
 
¶E. O 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL MOPS PHUM MARR MASS CB
SUBJECT: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INDIVIDUAL TO ATTEND THE 
COMPREHENSIVE COURSE ON SECURITY CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH 
TERRORISM IN SOUTH EAST ASIA, AUGUST 17-21, 2009 IN PHNOM PENH, 
CAMBODIA 
 
REF: 03 SECSTATE 034981 
 
¶1. This is an action cable. See Paragraph Six. 
 
¶2. Reftel is guidance for screening nominees for U.S. sponsored 
training programs. 
 
¶3. To comply with the Leahy amendment relative to U.S. sponsored 
security assistance training, the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has 
conducted local human rights vetting for the following individual 
selected for the Comprehensive Course on Security Challenges 
Associated with Terrorism in South East Asia, August 17-21, 2009 in 
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 
 
NAME: Kim, Rithy (Male) 
DPOB: October 29, 1980; Kampong Cham 
POSITION: Deputy Director 
RANK: Brigadier General 
DEPT/UNIT: Cambodian Intelligence and Research Directorate, High 
Command Headquarters 
 
¶4. U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has reviewed its files and finds that, as 
of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross 
violations of human rights by the above individual. 
 
¶5. Individual will attend the Comprehensive Course on Security 
Challenges Associated with Terrorism in South East Asia, August 
17-21, 2009 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 
 
¶6. Action request: Please verify whether the Department possesses 
any credible information that the individual named above has been 
implicated in gross violations of human rights. 
 
¶7. Points of contacts for Amembassy Phnom Penh are Major Wayne 
Turnbull turnbullpw@state.gov or tel: 855-23-728-219 or Jenae 
Johnson at Johnsonjd3@state.gov or tel: 855-23-728-118. 
 
RODLEY