TRANSMITTAL OF REVISED VIETNAM MAPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000800020016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: December 9, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.G. 20505
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
9 December 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Melvin R. Laird
The Secretary of Defense
SUBJECT : Transmittal of Revised Vietnam Maps
1. Attached for your information is one set of the new Vietnam map
set requested by Dr. Kissinger, plus two versions of a memorandum
explaining the maps.
a. The map package itself (enclosed in a pink cover)
consists of six maps: Five of these are updated versions
of the five maps II in the 18 November (blue cover) package.
The sixth (prin ted at Dr. Kissinger's request) is a
combination of the friendly/enemy force disposition by
regiment map (No. 1) and an OSD/SA map plotting every
hamlet in South Vietnam color-coded to show the type of
GVN force that provides security for each hamlet. The
combined map has certain anomalies deriving from the
fact that the GVN military presence information (i . e . , the
color-coded hamlet plots) is based on 31 October HES data
whereas the force disposition by regiment plots are
based on 1 December order of battle data. Hence, in a
few instances, you have (say) Communist regiments
sitting astride what are also marked as GVN hamlets or
ARVN regiments encompassing hamlets coded to show
no GVN presence.
b. The explanatory memorandum with a seal on its
cover was prepared for U.S. eyes and use. Its infor-
mation is comprehensive.
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c. The explanatory memorandum without a seal on
its cover is a slightly sterilized version of b designed for
passage to senior GVN officials.
2. On 2 December (prior to his departure from Washington) President
Thieu's emissary Mr. Nguyen Phu Duc was given a jury-rigged combination
of the hamlet plot with the 18 November force disposition plot (Map No. 1
in the blue cover series) run as an overlay. This combination was prepared
overnight at Dr. Kissinger's request.
3. Copies of the attached map set have been sent to Dr._ Kissinger's
office and pouched to Saigon. (The U.S. Mission was sent three complete
sets with the U.S. (seal) cover memorandum and three sets with the
sterile cover memorandum -- giving it two of the latter for passage to the
GVN plus a retention copy for its records.)
4. In Washington we are making additional controlled distribution (as
indicated below) by sending additional copies of this memorandum and its
attachments to Deputy Secretary Rush, Under Secretary Johnson, Admiral
Moorer and Vi Admiral de Poix. On our behalf, would you please thank
I I and his Systems Analysis associates and our colleagues
in for their invaluable and much appreciated help in preparing these
map projects which Dr. Kissinger requested and, particularly in meeting
the tight deadlines against which they had to be prepared.
lyl P, 0 7 - U G arver, Jr.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
Attachments
TS No. 199261/72 (U.S. Seal Copy)
TS Memorandum - unnumbered (No. U.S. Seal - GVN Copy)
Map Set (Pink Cover)
Copies No. 5 - Secretary Laird
Copies No. 6 Deputy Secretary Rush
Copies No. 13 - Under Secretary Johnson
Copies No. 14 - Admiral Moorer
Copies No. 15 - Admiral de Poix
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