BRIEFING OF DEFENSE SUBCOMMITTEE OF HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS, 8 FEBRUARY 1965

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000600260010-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 9, 1965
• Content Type: MFR

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9 February 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT": Briefing of Defense Subcommittee of House Appropriations,
February 1965
1. This briefing dealt entirely with the situation in Vietnam.
After the formal presentation, the questions involved:
a. The reasons for lack of progress in South
tnam.
b. The lack of warning in the case of the Pleiku
attack.
c. The background and probable North Vietnam
d ChiCom reaction to Our retaliatory air strike.
estimate of the situation in South Vietnam.
The result if we pulled out of South Vietnam.
J. The chances of and prerequisites for a negotiated
ement.
g. The reasons for some previous cptimistic statement
prior briefings.
2. The Director's responses generally were-
a. The difficulty in South Vietnam to get the leaders
to lay aside their differences and unite in their common
anti-Communist interest so that there would be continuity
in government and the people could have confidence in it.
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