PROPOSED MEMORANDUM TO DR. KISSINGER ENTITLED 'OPERATIONAL PROGRESS REPORT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700070009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 17, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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Approved"r Release 2004/09/23 : CIA-RDP80RW20R000700070009-5
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
SUBJECT: Proposed Memorandum to Dr. Kissinger. Entitled
"Operational Progress Report"
1. The attached memorandum offered for your signature troubles
me. On the one hand, I am diffident about interposing a road block on
a document cleared by the FE Division and the DDP' s office. On the
other hand, however, there are two aspects of the proposed memo that
to my ear ring a trifle off pitch.
2. First the opening and concluding paragraphs (1 and 11) strike
me as slightly defensive in tone and a little opaque. Secondly, I am not
entirely sure that the language of the other paragraphs (2 through 10)
adequately explains or supports the theses that our 1 June ploy failed to
meet its objective,
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3. I would suggest you read the proposed memo with the above
points in mind. If you do not find them troublesome (and your eye may
not), there is no reason why you should not sign it. If they do bother you,
we can get the memorandum rewritten early next week --- holding it until
Kissinger returns and using a preference for not sending it down in his
absence as our reason for the delay.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
Approved For Release 2004/09/23 : CIA-RDP80RO172OR000700070009-5
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