U.S. MISSION PLANNING NEW VIET COORDINATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100300010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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a _military man, someone from I in the central highlands, One
a "team captain" who is eitheriior the experiment is Darlae
efforts will be coordinated by I . Une of the provinces chosen:
nity planner as well as . top I P h a n t h i e t, Chester (Chet):
soldier-the confusion is too Richardson of Salem, Ore.j
much for him to cope with. 1will be reporting to the Eni-
cans have the ear of a hard-
pressed province chief-who
'a c cluict now, but Lions in those provinces where advisers
the government's writ still) le spot are keeping on;
runs. In areas where political, gers crossed. i
econoinid and military plans The representative from the'
are being pressed, there have Embassy who is to be named
been frequent . instances of coordinator is William Beech?
'jurisdictional wrangles amongjner'of New York, 33, who has'
Americans, as well as com- !specialized in 'Montagnard af:!
plaints of Vietnamese ine?fi-I fairs and is doing his second'
cieney. , tour of duty in Viet-Nam. He,
There is also recognition will report directly to the. Em
that when too many Ameri-!bassy.
the frequently tangled opera-Ishortlived rebellion Things'
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placed on his role as a coor- I three provinces chosen for the
dinator rather than as boss. experiment is Dinhtuon,g, one
Mission leaders here feel of the most populous in the
that this way they stand aiMekong Derta region and lo-11
chance of getting more valueicated in the critical arca'
out of the effort being ex-; southeast of Saigon,
pended in the provinces, Many; Its provincial capital of
will agree that the blame foril~'Iytho is home to the famous
malfunctioning programs does'Seventh Division now at?'
not lie solely with an inexper- Itached to the Fourth Corps,
ienced province chief and his and this Division frequently
undcrtrained assistants. figured in Saigon's coup acti-
The' man named team cap- vity,
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would have no overriding au l being destroyed by-Viet Cong. j.
thority,- great emphasis is' The most souther)
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vide that one American rather
than several would deal with
the province chief. Because he
problem by playing' one
against the other and simply
getting nothing done.
The new plan would pro-
Sometimes he resolves that I gassy as well as running' the,
USOIVI development opera.",
tion. Binhthuan is a farmin,"
and fishing community where
government control has
slipped badly in recent
months, with at least five
hamlets along Highwa
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coastal province, of Binhthuan~
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