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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000800010035-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: November 6, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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REF: SAIGON EMBASSY 15745(EXDIS) 4 NOV
1. WISH CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO REF, WHICH RESULT OF SERIES
OF PLANNING SESSIONS IN WHICH COS PARTICIPATED.
2. STATEMENT ON CAS IN PARA FOUR C OF REF REFERS TO
PROVINCE DETACHMENTS, AND SHOULD NOT BE READ AS ATTEMPT TO
REDUCE STATION SIZE BY EMBASSY FIAT. WE HAVE HOWEVER AGREED
THAT IF CEASE-FIRE SITUATION HOLDS WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO REDUCE
SIGNIFICANTLY AND PRIMARILY THROUGH CUTTING FIELD REPRESEN-
TATION IN THOSE PROVINCES WHICH ARE OF RELATIVELY LITTLE
POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
3. RE PARA 8 OF REF, IS SLATED TO
BECOME CHIEF OF FIELD OPERATIONS UNDER PROPOSED SET-UP.
E2 IMPDET WN-SISM.
S E C R E T
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VIETNAMESE AFFAIRS STAFF
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
DATE: 7 Nov 72
To: Ex. Dir. -Comptroller
FROM: GACarver, Jr.
Would you please look over the attached
two cables and let me know
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you think of
the line of approach reflected therein. It bears
some resembl
ance to an idea you suggested in
one of our recent conversations, but also
strikes me as having some differences that
could prove critical. As you well know, the
time to weigh in on a problem of this nature
is when organizational outlines are still being
pondered and positions have not yet jelled.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
Attachments
Saigon 56799 (IN 752635)
Saigon 15745 (State)
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