TRANSMITTAL OF VIETNAM REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500070079-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: July 27, 1967
• Content Type: MF

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ANDU FOR: The President
Mr. Wil'
tly on an inspection trip during the course of s which
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he has Visited
Transmittal of Vietnam
0~`~~i7~t9t~er
Colby, Chief of our operating division on the
Vietnam Station Pursuant to a remark you ma
at a recent meeting# I asked Mr. Colby to take a very careeful. look
at all of our activities in Vietnam and submit a person : report to
interesting and informative and I am, therefore, forwarding It to you
as an attachment to this rr exiorand 's.
2. Mr. Colby is one of our ablest and most professional officers,
findings and conclusions. I think you will find this report
and one long personally associated with the Vietnam problem.
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portion of his professional attention to Vietnam and Its problems for
more than eight years. It would be hard to find a more knowledgeable
observer.
3. 1 think you will recognize from the general tone as well as
the specific contents of the attached report that this Agency is going flat
Mr. Colby has devoted a major
n its effort to contribute to the success of the total US program in
Vietnam and is utilizing the full range of professional resour
military. Qualitatively, however. I find the performance of our officers
r available to us. In numerical terms, our input is small
in comparison to other components of the government, partic
field most gratifying and believe this view is shared by their
colleagues
rerument components, including not only Am` aassad ar
his predecessors in that office.
4. As Mr. Colby indicates, there are obviously sticky problems
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to be solved. These, however, are being worked on with
every resource at our command. Fear example, we are already endeavoring
to moot the requirements he identifies for additional personnel. We have
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of avail able professionals being exhausted. Thirty-seven of these have
already been trained in the United States and are en route to Vietnam.
5. The thing I fi nd perhaps mo at signifi cant i e the way our
Stati on i s playing its role as a participating members of the US team
effort rather than a separate bureaucratic entity. Our officers and
their programs are fully integrated into the total structure headed by
Ambassador Bunker and, on the pacification side, into the new combined
organization which Ambassador Kamer directs as General 'Westmoreland's
executive agent.
/s./ Richard Helms
Richard Helms
Director
cc: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
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1 - SecState
I - SecDef
1 - Mr. Rostow
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