PREPARED FOR CRISES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300280035-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: August 30, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CI
Prepared for Crises
Roger HCWGHT
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Man
in the
News
old, Roger Hilsman has been
a successful guerrilla leader
in Burma, a scholar with ,a
doctorate from Yale, an intel-
ligence specialist and a dip-
lomat. Now, : as Assistant
Secretary ,of of State for Fa
Eastern Affairs, he draw
ex*eiiot-ce in dew-
ing with the grist
in Vietnam.
Yes`tess, bouncy,
aggressive but deeply reflec-
tive man Mr: Hilsman,
soldier-sc1olar-diplomat, is i
the best. multitalented Ren-
aissance trididon, with the
added advantage that his
skills and interests are at-
tuned to the age of nuclear
power and guerrilla warfare
His t }e~, and attribute
-practical ellectual an
philosopOW'3.-c presumably
come in ih8A1!?iYU 'Mr. Hils
man directs rrew his corner
office on?; hheb4. floor u
the State; I~pyStnnt the
policy m neuvg.r~g,, of the
United Statea'in'etnam.
Essentially, '4effibayi is
guerrilla problems eight
years of South ~,Vietnames
struggle against,. Communist
rebels-and ugly a guer-
rilla expgrtas needed t
supervise" t* ted States as-
sistance , Iii 'the jungle war
Although the Far East an
its problems range far .beyon
the jungle clearings of Viet.
nam, that is where the strut;
gle is hottest, and Mr. Hits
man's wartime experience coil
pled with scholarly attain
ment made him an ideal can-
didate for the Far Easter
job. So President, Kennedy
tapped him for it, taking hi
from his post as director of the
he moved to the Office o
Strategic Services and+