MEMO TO THE DIRECTOR FROM (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000200030003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 13, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

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VIETNAMESE AFFAIRS STAFF
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
TO: The Director
FROM:
SUBJECT:
REMARKS:
1. Attached is a cable from Ted Shackley
on materials relating to the Chau case pulled
together by the Mission to support Ambassador
Bunker in his appearance before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, now scheduled
for Thursday, 14 May. This cable came via
the restricted handling channel and all copies
were sent to me. I am distributing its text
to the persons enumerated below.
DATE: 13 May 1970
2. The Agency has excellent relations with
Larry Pickering, Bunker's senior Saigon aide-
who accompanied the Ambassador to Washing-
ton and is now in the Department. I will arrang
with I for one of us to get hold of
Pickering and take a quick and quiet look at the
final version of Bunker's back-up materials.
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Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
Attachment
cc: DDCI C / VNO
DDP Leg. Counsel
C/FE
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S E C R E T 131120Z MAY 70 CITE SAIGON 995
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1 . I N PREPARATION FOR AMBASSADOR BUNKER'S TDY TO WASHINGTON
AND APPEARANCE BEFORE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, ENTIRE
MISSION WAS TASKED TO PREPARE VARIOUS PAPERS CONTAINING "TALKING
POINTS. " STATION, EMBASSY POLITICAL SECTION AND AMBASSADOR
BUNKER'S IMMEDIATE STAFF, WORKED ON PULLING TOGETHER FOLK PAPERS
O N IRAN NQOC CHAU CASE. MAJOR INPUT INTO THESE PAPERS WAS MADE
BY STATION. THESE PAPERS ARE TITLED AS FOLLOWS:
A. SEQUENCE OF DEMARCHES TO THE VIETNAMESE GOVERN-
MENT REGARDING TRAN NGOC CHAU.
6i. CHRONOLOGY OF ACTIONS TAKEN BY IRAN NGOC CHAU
AFTER THE ARREST OF HIS BROTHER.
C. THE RECORD OF THE TRAN NGOC CHAU CASE.
D. AN OVERVIEW OF THE IRAN NGOC CHAU CASE.
2. I T HAD BEEN OUR INTENT TO FORWARD COPIES OF PARA 1 PAPERS
BY TELEPOUCH AS SOON AS "FINAL VERSIONS" WERE PREPARED BY EMBASSY.
EMBASSY STAFF HOWEVER KEEPS MODIFYING THESE PAPERS LITERALLY ON
DAY-TO-DAY BASIS. SOME MODIFICATIONS BEING MADE BY WASHINGTON
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TO SAIGON TELEPHONE CALLS. IT CLEAR THEREFORE THAT STATION WILL
NOT SEE "FINAL." VERSION BEFORE AMBASSADOR BUNKER TESTIFIES BEFORE
SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE. RECOMMEND THEREFORE THAT
HEAaQUARTERS CONTACT R. PICKERING WHO TRAVELING WITH AMBASSADOR
BUNKER AND 13 NOW I N WASHINGTON AND REVIEW CHAU DATA THAT HE
PRESENTLY HAS I N HAND. OUR BELIEF I S THAT THESE CHAU TALKING
PAPERS ARE SUFFICIENTLY STERILE SO AS NOT TO BE OF ANY POTENTIAL
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FINAL VERSIONS NOT SEEN BY STATION, BELIEVE IT WOULD BE PRUDENT
FOR HQS TO TAKE ONE LAST LOOK AT THIS DATA TO MAKE CERTAIN
NOTHING HAS CREPT INTO IT SINCE WE LAST SAW IT WHICH COULD
EMBARRASS PLEASE ADVISE RESULTS OBTAINED. GP-1.
S E C R E T
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16 February 1970
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I talked t about this suggesting that now was the time
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to face up to the Pincus and Paul problem and possibly to include in the
guidance cable a statement to the effect that intelligence sources and
methods and intelligence operations were not to be discussed with P&P.
(Note that Secretary Laird strongly opposes any discussion of nuclear defense
matters and that this was being referred to the "White House Committee.')
says that Karamessines and Meyer are focusing on the cable but added
that you might want to focus the Director's attention on this whole matter
as the latest chapter in the Symington Subcommittee episode. I also think
it would be desirable to have a permanent Agency representative on the
Interdepartmental Committee rather than to run in various division
representatives on an ad hoc basis.
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