CIA CHIEF IN SAIGON FLYING HOME TO REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300110011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 27, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS
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FEB 2 7 1965
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CIA Chief in Saigon
Flying Home to Report
By JOSEPH FRIED
Saigon, Feb. 26-Peer DeSilva,
CIA chief in Viet Nam, flew to.1
Washington today to report on
the situation here. He was- ex-
pected to cbnfer with CIA Di
rector John McCone on the re-
cent coup attempt which found'
the intelligence agency napping. j
DeSilva's trip, ? described as,
for routine consultations, was ex
pected to last 10 days.. On On the war front, U.S. Pets to.
day bombed densely. wooded Viet
Cong positions 60 miles northeast
of Saigon for the sixth. straight,i
day. One report 'said. extra ex-J
plosions indicated that the B-57s'
may have hit Communist '.aam
munitions ' dumps
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