THE RESCUE OF THE SS MAYAGUEZ AND ITS CREW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01133A000800100022-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 18, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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THE WHITE HOUSE
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A copy of each-nstrucfi.on, verbal or .written, l:ssuec by
you or in your nam other elements of the intt~llii, lice
community or to the field, from the time of the bas%c
made at the National Security Cou icil
decision
planning
meeting at 10:30 p. nz. oiz..May 1'3)tlirough the evacwitioli
from Koh Tang Island.
(c) Any observations or suggestions which you cthe ons ati~>=v11u1c1
-- tYt~ liZ.lt^ 164 ? contribute. to iTnprovement in the ability
effectivel}r e/itli ?ri~iQ
Security Council machinery to deal
This evaluation should be conducted on a very close hold basis. The
Ce
material., in (b) above should be submilled by nova, u:'sclay, May ,
and the remainder by close of business Friday, May 23. I have
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MEMORANDUM FOR
SUBJECT:
May 18, 1975
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTEIJLICIC,NGE
The Rescue of the SS Mayaguez and Its Cr
it.
we 'rescue the SS evaluate, as la ineanszof iinsus i'u.
xn the aftermath of the opexationt
t to
cx ems,, I consider at essential tha
the most. effective possible performance in fut'-txe crises, the manior
in which this operation was planned and conducted.
In order to facilitate this evaluation, I would like to receive, on a
priority basis, the following:
-01relov_ical expositi 11 of
t$} A detailed and ~.._ ~,
events and acti'vitie's from the time of the seirur of t ~e.
?SS Mayaguez through the completion of the evacraticr -,f
Marines. from IC oh-Tan Island, focus sect on the actiJitice
of the intelligence corrununi.ty.
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Security Affairs.
r equestecl similar sub)-nissions from the Secretary of State, the
Secretary-of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National
S1tCRETIXC,DS
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