INTERNAL AGENCY TASKING FOR COMMITTEE PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500060050-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2004
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 27, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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27 April 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR
SUBJECT: Internal Agency Tasking for Committee Project
1. The assignment levied on the Agency in your 25 April meeting
can probably best be discharged by the following two-step procedure: (1)
generating 17 separate papers (outlined below) with a request that they be
delivered to you (or to this office) by OOB Monday, 15 May, (2) having this
office draft the overall document which will be your Committee input. The
latter will be a distillate synthesis of theme separate papers and may incor-
porate at least some of them as annexes. We would undertake to have the
final package ready by COB Monday, 22 May.
2. The separate papers required are enumerated below, along with
the offices I think should be responsible for and/or assist in their preparation:
a) An analysis of the military situation in South Vietnam
(SAVA, working with OCI).
b) An analysis of pacification (SAVA -- this can be an
update of our 17 February memorandum on this very topic).
c) An analysis of political developments and prospects
in South Vietnam (SAVA, drawing on our 19 April memo
which covers most of the required ground).
d) An analysis of South Vietnam's economy (ORR).
An analysis of North Vietnam's economy (ORR).
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f) Communist order ttt~ecruitn3o including andhloments on
e+~Ce (SAVA
unit effectiveness, infiltration, ORR.,
with the cooperation of, and much of the work d nee by h is now whi
OCI and ONE. This topic overlap
in process). AVA g) State of the Viet Cong infrastructures(Sis is alreadjuinnction
with VNO and the Vietnam station, work on
train). ack
the h) An assessment of the intell~ne rs at i{o r ~ request)'
structure (VNO "' this is already Prove
i) North Vietnamese (Communist) political capabilities in
the non-Communist world (OCI).
J) North Vietnam: (1) Motivation and intentions (2) OV /
allied successes Hanoi would tolerate in the so uth, (3) GV
allied successes Hanoi would permit on North namese
territory (OCI. with ONE and SAVA helping).
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k) Chinese attitudes towards the China inclu
comments on GVN/&Uied successes
with help from OCI).
south and in the north (ONE- w se w I Soviet attitudes towards the Vietnamese in ar, nclu ng
GVN/allied successes the USSR soSNIE L I- I I- b7, which went
in the north (ONE. This overlap
to the USIB Representatives in draft form on 26 April).
m) Effectiveness of our ae a~4 agcompensaainst t
Vietnam and of the enemy efforts
for them (ORR, with SAVA and OCI)
n) Effect of the bombing on North Vietnamese thinking,
particularly in regard to negotiations (OCI).
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o) The international state of mind on Vietnam
of the Board of National Estimates).
p) Probable North Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese, South
Vietnamese and other countries' reactions to a major increase
over the next two years in U. S. force strength and in the scope
of U. S. military action (ONE).
q) Probable North Vietnamese, Russian, Chinese, South
Vietnamese and other countries' reactions to a continuation
over the next two years of present U. S. military policies
conducted with approximately present force levels.
3. This gives SAVA five papers, two of which are largely done already.
OCI and ORR will each have three papers. FE/ will have one, already
in train. ONE will have five, one of which I would do himself
and one of which overlaps an estimate already out in draft.
4. If you ap rove the above tasking and so desire, I will get in touch
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requirements. I plan to contact each of ce k ea separately and present
these as requirements from you for your use, taking my text from your
comments at the last two Morning Meetings.
George A. Carver, Sr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
GAC/mee
Orig - Mr. Helms
1 DCI Audit Project
1 - GAC Chrono
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