U.S. PUTS 3 CIVILIANS IN WEST REGIONAL POSTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260055-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: December 4, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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.. By Ward Just
Wash:n:ton Post i'o"ci:n Scrvicc
ee top, generals in Sargon ant
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'dam J. Porter tod y the; all,
most important as iginents, It was partly this situatioi
made to date under i e.reor
ga:iization of the k, erican party the increasingly obv
American c i v i l i an were corps commands. The civilia
named regional dip ct rs un bureaucracy often works ou
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liar .e
The three are Assi `a 1,ti5'. men of the 3176
it Dep? civilian effort, that the mis...
;uty Ambassador Her L. T. sion sought to correct with its~amphib ous force. 1'dalt is.
Horen 55; a dc 't AID
4 1 eder the command of G n.
ll s '
egional director, r. Paul Nov. 23 directive p acing a
Vann, 42, and a For ig `Scrv Revolutionary:Developmentac-l !ice officer current) orking tivities under an Office for, has exercised independ it
authority in the past.
as an aide to Porte incent
`r I Operations headed by Porter
~.eyman, 46. and a newly named assistant, The senior civilian in t ne
They will become h senior, r T
Corps had been ti e ,L S.1
civilian officials in t e egions L. V ade Lathram.
and counterparts to he powers' Now the civilians will dupli?,Consul General, Thomas C ,r? j
ful Vietnamese e p com sate both the American mill-icoran, who had acted as'
nianders..Koren will g to tlae' tary bureaucracy, which has political adviser to I N , w
I Corps, Vann to the I Corps,! representatives at corps and Koren,. who has been Anil) S-!
and Heyn;an to the I Corps province, and sometimes dis- sador to the Congo i:>raz a?
in the Delta. The II C rps di-, trict levels, and the Vietnain-. ville), undertakes that ro c,
rector has yet to be n med. ese bureaucracy. not as an adviser but as in
The appointments su p:iseci The parallelism was thoughtiequal.
here to be essential because Vann, who will become c?i
observers hero, wh ad ex-
lrected that relative the American effort has both gional D.:rclor in the II
y junior military and "civilian" cone- Corps, is one of the legend ry
men would be nam d to the americans in Vietnam. He as
posts. As it ha po:nents?
ppe e each
n:arwas ? personal) s lected 3 Civilian Agencies din the Army for 21 years, t n
by Porter without e rd tol The civilians had been split of them in the Far East, a id
rank or the Foreig ervice into three operational agen-;retired as a lieutenant color el
or AID sole ?ion syst m Koren' eles-AID, 3 GSPAO, and the in 1053, after two years as s n-
is a senior ;;iplomat V inn, an CIA-without central opera- for military adviser for ei it
oinspoken former ie tenants tional control either in Saigon
colonel, and Heym rela- ! or in the provinces, except in Delta -provinces `between S i-
tively obscure, if se io , staff, the person of Ambassador gon and Cantho.
aide- Henry Cabot Lodge. The re- After a tour in private bt -i-
The region dire to s, or! suit was that both the military ness, Vann returned to V t?
civilian corps co, m nders,I and the civilian efforts had nam in F ebruarv .INZ, tow k
will report directly o Porter resulted in.a gradual erosion. 4.
and have under the r ontr-ol of civilian influence. Thelfor the AID mission. He s
all civilian efforts r la ing to! American military command been chief of the planning a d.
"Revolutionary Deve o ent," r was thought to be picking u7 !projects division 'in AID aid!
he. Vietnamese-A.e i c a n
iepu'y director of its ii ld',
scheme for pacifying to coup- the pieces.
try. These include th AID',: That, at'least, was the view opr.ratians.
:icynlan, named director of
program, the psy Ii logicallof many observers here, and the IV Corps, is a I3rookl n-
1avarfare and inform tin pro-!! when' the reorganization was- born Foreign Service off- er
grams of the Join United!! --
States Public Affairs Office announced late last month . rho has served in Paris a ci'
(JUSPAO), and the p cifica-there were indications that if the Far East. l;e has been ill
lion activities of th e al it did not succeed the military Vietnam 15 months, most 'L
Intelligence A,ency. command would take charge the time at the Ilevniution-rv~
The directors, rt r s under--,
ui of pacification, or "Revolu? Developmeni padre
stood, would shortly b nam-
in, civilian chiefs c each' !, tionary Development." center at Vungtau. He
L'
province. When this h ppens,i~ The most interesting ap- beep Porter's chief aide f r.:
the Americans will u have'! pointment today was that of (the Delta.
1created parallel lies f au- 1Koren, who as Assistant Depu-f _
thority, one civilian al d the ty Ambassador was No. 3 man
,other military. ? 'lin the American mission and)
The Vietnamese go of o Zent' the nian directly below Depu? i
, itself is an odd hyl ?i with ty Ambassador Porter.
authority -shared bet c n the: .. -_ __
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