ENEMY FORCES IN CAMBODIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01439R000500110009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Content Type: MF

Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP80B01439ROQO 1100619=8 4
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligenc
SUBJECT : Enemy Forces in Cambodia
1. In his briefing of the President yesterday
the Director made the following statement;
The number of North Vietnamese and
Viet Cong troops using Cambodian territory
fluctuate, of course, as regiments shift
back and forth across the border with
South Vietnam, but the total of these
units runs between 40,000 and 60,000 men.
2. The statement is incorrect and the proper
numbers should be 20,000 to 40,000 men, an agreed
CIA-DIA estimate which is consistent with MACV's
reporting. The error results largely from a break-
down in coordination. In any event Admiral Moorer
was briefed this morning by DIA on the same subject.
He quickly pointed out that CIA's estimate is
40,000-60,000.
3. A good part of today has been spent in
tracking down the differences in numbers and
assuring DIA that we have not left the reservation.
The most recent call was a request from a member
of General Bennett's staff that we provide him
with a statement of our estimate before his briefing
of the JCS tomorrow morning.
4. If you approve the attached memorandum, I
would also like to send the text of paragraph 3 to
DIA as the formulation of CIA's estimate of enemy
forces in Cambodia.
25X1A9a
Deputy Director
Econon~c Research
Memo to DCI re Estimates of
Enemy Forces in Cambodia
Approved For Release 2001/03/04: C 000500110009-8