KOMOR REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500030022-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 8, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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8 July 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE D1R.ECTC
SUBJECT: ICmner Report
1. Carver's memorandum on Kamer's report, requested by
you. already contains the most significant observations I had to make.
,which are Incorporated. in Carver's paragraphs 4, 5, and 6. A couple
of additional points are, I believe, still worthy of note.
2. Kamer still obviously does not really understand the "mix"
of doctrine and intimate support and follow-through that CIA gave this
activity from its Inception in 1964. That this mix has been successful
was by no means due only to CIA atsMb fudamonta ly it Was a
function of our more incisive d,rstasel ng of the mature of armed
Co xosist subversion, mad the means necessary to combat it. FlezdbiUty
h elKps,"butt that is by no means the saslae `ai to . I rear ,inn seining
A, j oinand miccessw program pr Ing the doctrine
.and now a-hiang almost. p on a ocation of resources
iage progxra these
end tine assigizaeent of priorities. Obviously In a -r
tic,. as axe wi aaatea, but Komsr. l4L a tradition, ge 1.
t.r . or s+ aai aspects but, 14 +r~ar `.the a bet to
Parttdalarlr in this evident fa is . c l"14" that there
a *, at t' a province level. the ".1a L.Ib s " r~ (whether or
he rsta n t e techniques and tha + ' w nonetheless ~asvs
pa ~+ t ..,:r
i~?v`*JI'ni~eTstan Further- b
d authority over `hen
an
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hsaagerrisi
t11t11# Cr1t !logical eastity to .snr s jr
at hex l~nrslr. Should this cue to pass, a ct that, the ~4 1
p #fca#ion effort will lose its memooftAx. : a"ai a s to a halt. that
abaaaaetoaaaid ' # dal 3#ta~risati+aa
s zc sfi4 ctrine will be
VUes. That swill
aaf. .old engaged is paeificatloa !.
th+e said 0',any hopes of rural secures. If. a have learned any
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le aw-7n in the, p4L%t two yrears& it is certainly the lesson that the military
esta bush 'r:eft is Mcapabte of contesting the armed gierrilla subversion
of the Viet Cong throughout the countryside. If we ig*Qre this lessen,
and if Komer's Line of thought obtains. I pre!1ct failure in this effort
and the negation of our classic military victories.
-4. All in all, I find these aspects of per's report really
depressing and discouraging. His remarks an par cosgestiotl. Laud
tenure, etc.. I find unremarkable but useful ebssryations on categories
of problems with which we are not unfausilas'. on the pacification side.
however. I find his views. and those he imputes to Westmoreland. appalling.
F=.M DZ is YA
Special Assistant for Vietnamese, Affairs
Attachments
1--'DSil'va:m ee
Orig IL 1 - DCI
I - Komer RD File
11 - C /SAVA Chrono
11 - VAS Chrono
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