LETTER TO COLONEL JOHN E. COON, USA FROM GEORGE A. CARVER, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700100014-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 26, 1972
• Content Type: LETTER

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26 September 1972
Colonel John E . Coon, USA
Director of Asian Studies
U . S . Army War College
Carlisle Barracks
Pennsylvania 17013
Dear Colonel Coon:
Since 26 October is now only a month away, I thought I would
square away some detailed questions relating to the seminar session
on Mainland Southeast Asia you have asked me to run on that date .
I will of course be deligliied to tailor my approach and manner of
treatment to your needs , but at this writing I am not altogether clear
just what these needs are.
Your letter of 25 August spoke of a session of sixteen stL~dents
who would have asemi-final. draft of a joint paper which should serve
as a basis far criticism or elaboration in the seminar. It would be very
helpful if you could mail me some version of this draft, or even an
outline sketch of its general argument, a day or two before the session
so I could have a chance to glance through it before meeting with its
authors . Subject to your wishes , I thought I might open with a few
general remarks, slide into some specific observations keyed to .the
students' work and then throw the seminar open for give and take
discussion .
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I will touch base by phone around mid-Octobelrntco~e?~tall ,lyour
minute logistic details , travel arrangements , etc . ( y
25 August letter was sent to mY onor to be invited to the WardCollege,
given below .) It is always an h
doubly so to be invited back. i am looking forward to seeing you and
your associates on 26 October .
Sincerely yours ,
George A. Carver, Jr.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
US ARMY WAR COLLEGE
CARLISLE BARRACKS, PENNSYLVANIA 17013
octor George A. Carver
25X1
25 August 1972
-Dear Dr. Carver:
War College is a familiar routine for you, thus
Coming to the Army
it`s hardly necessary to go into the usual detail in this letter.
However, because of toedateoontnewsaspectss year`s curriculum, I
should bring you up
With the compression of time in our international strategic appraisals
course, I was given only four half-days for coveragf anal lecture
Asian/Pacific area. As a consequence we're giving
coverage only to the PRC and Japan. For the res~ainlandaSoutheast
bringing in one consultant each for South Asia,
Asia (and you're the expert), Insular Southeast Asia and the Pacific,
the Koreas, and Asian regional relations.
Each consultant will meet with sixteen selected students, one from
each committee, who are conducting research in his area of expertise.
The students will have a semi-final draft of a joint paper intended
ultimately for oral presentation and discussion in their respective
committees. This draft paper should serve as the basis for critiaT~m or
elaboration in a seminar session with you. Since, for the most p
the individual student will have only a shallow background on mainland
our insights will be invaluable in making the final
Southeast Asia, y is evaluation
paper a sub stantive contributioortionhofotheacurriculum. The manner
of Asia which culminates this p our discretion.
in which the session is conducted is at y
yOU, of course, are best qualified to decide what factors are ?uestion
primary importance for consideration. The toucthetcoming decade and
of US interests in Asia and the Pacific during and Burma will
the ways in which developments in Indochina, Thailand,
or may impact on those iitareSdrawdown andrthelinfluencelof thetPRC
situation after a US mil y
and the USSR in the area.
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As for physical facilities for the seminar session, you will be
meeting in one of our committee rooms, seated with the students
around the table in an extremely informal atmosphere. The room
will have chalkboards and equipment for vugraph transparencies
or 35mm slides should you want to use them. We can prepare the
vugraphs from your drafts if you'd like--but in that case we
would need the drafts by the first week of October. At any rate,
simply let me know your requirements and I`ll see that the proper
preparations are made.
With regard to travel arrangements, I assume you'll be driving up.
If you arrive the afternoon or evening preceding the 26th, we'll
schedule you for a morning session. If you come up in the morning,
we'll schedule you for the afternoon. In either case guest house
reservations will be made for you. Let me know your plans and I'll
make the appropriate arrangements with our Visitors Bureau.
If there's still anything you'd like to discuss, don't hesitate to
call me collect at [phone] or drop me a line. I'm looking
forward to seeing you again this year.
Sincerely,
JOHN E. COON
,Colonel, USA
Director of Asian Studies
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