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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R001300120006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 18, 1970
• Content Type: CABLE

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POTTS AND DELIVER COPY UNDER APPROPRIATE BUCKSLIP TO CAPT.
PIERUCI I. INTER..ALIA, THIS MESSAGE IS ALSO FOR YOUR INFORL ATION.
2. REQUEST OFFENBACH HAVE PARA 4 THIS MESSAGE TYPED UP
Ail DE[IV ER TO GENERAL KEEGAN AS COPY OF CARVER MESSAGE TO
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GENERAL POTTS. (THIS DEVICE PERMITS COUCHING MESSAGE IN PERSONAL
VEIN THAT WOULD BE INAPPROP'RIA TI=: IN MESSAGE ADDRESSED DIRECTLY
TO KEEGAN.) BUCISLIP SHOULD NOTE: THAT i1. :ESSAGE COPY BEING
PASSED AT ORIGINATOR'S REQUEST TO KEEP GENERAL KEEGAN
APPRISED OF DEVELOPMENTS.OF INTEREST TO HIM AND OF WHICH. HE
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SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMEND ATIONS WERE NEEDED FOR THE. PRESID 'NT'S
CONSIDERATION, AND DIRECTED 'THAT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS BE
DRAW N UP BY CIA IN COOPERATION W ITH THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE
AND DEFENSE. 'THE DCI. ASKED ME TO OVERSEE THE PREPARATION OF
TI4E COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO THIS WHITE HOUSE REQUEST.
(3) IN DIRECT CONVERSATION, I SU 0 TEP THAT TiiE
REQUESTED PAPER AND RECOMMENDATIONS BE PREPARED BY A
SLIGHTLY EXPANDED VERSION OF THE SAME AD HOC INTERAGENCY
COMMITTEE THAT >l!I II CRRERXXR HAD PREPARED THE 18 JULY
STUDY AND WAS ALREADY .WORKING ON THE PROBLEM. DR. KISSINGER
CONCURRED AND EXPLAINED IN DETAIL ,'rH..AT WAS WANTED,, GIVING
POLICY GUIDANCE TO OUR EFFORTS AND IN THE PROCESS SOMEWHAT
BROADENING OUR TERMS OF REFERENC .' E ARE TASKED WITH
A .A ZI aC ALL OF THE IBS GO ER FMEa NT'S PRESENT EFFORTS THAT
CCLLe.CT INTELLIGENCE ON THE O._' NORTH VIETNAMESE DyIANPOIty `R
AND L GISTIC:C SUPPORT TO THE STRUGG L,E IN SOUTH VIETNAM. ON THE
BASIS OF THIS ANALYSIS, IN E ARE 710 OFFER RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 'I)
IMP ROOVEMENTS ACHIEVAEJE WITHIN THE IPAR.AMIpTERS OF CURRENT
,PROGRAMS AND ASSET ALLOCATIONS AND (2) ADDITIONAL PR.OGRAMS,.
TECHNIQUES OR COLLECTION EFFORTS THAT COULD IMPROVE THE
QUANTITY, QUALITY.OR TUVIEL.I 3ESS OF THE US C OVERN 4: ENT'S
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THAT THE COMMITTEE WAS TO PRESENT ITS RECOMMENDATIONS AS
DEMONSTRABLE POTENTIAL VALUE. HE MADE IT, 'ERY"'CS s HOW
THE MIX OF CURRENT EFFORTS OR IN ADDITIONAL EFFORTS OF'
A GRADED SERIES OF OPTIONS RATHERTHAN IN THE FORM OF A SINGLE
"ACCEPT OR R ECT" " PACKAGE.
STATE AND THE AGENCY PLUS'REPRE,SENTATIVES OF.OASD/SYSTEMS
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(5) THE COMMITTEE NOW WORKING ON. THIS PROBLEM CONSISTS
F REPRESENTATIVES FROM APPROPRIATE COMPONENTS OF DIA, NSA,
ANALYSIS, SII:SCS/SACSA, J-3 (JRC), DCPG, AFXOP, AFNIC AND AFNIN.
TLUL OO_.;PERATIVE SPIRIT AND ENERGY WITH WHICH ALL MEMBERS
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A ~v' E I`:' HE .2 IN, KEEPING THEIR EYES CC??14STANTLY FOCUSED 0N .Till:
NATIONAL INTEREST, HAS BEEN BOTH GRATIFYING AND HEARTS ING.
E OBVIOUSLY HOPE TO. PRODUCE A CONSENSUS PAPER. THAT SAYS
S .OMETfHING MEANINGFUL AND V .";QRTH WH-'HZLE. THE RIGHT TO DISSENT
(I..E. , TAKE FOOTNOTES IN -TIKE FINAL PRODUCT) WILL. OF COURSE BE
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(6)IN OUR INITIAL DISCUSSIONS, THE COMMIT . TEE31IFTLY
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SUPPLY OR LOGISTICS INFILTRATION. THE FORMER WAS PRIMARILY A
DIFFERENT INTELLICENCE PROBLEMS: PERSONNEL INFILTRATION AND
AGREED THAT WE WERE REALLY LOOKING AT TWO RELATED BUT
INTEL
FURTHERMORE, THERE WERE. 2?9 TWO LOGISTIC SUPPORT SYSTEMS T
OBSERVERS, AGENT PENETRATIONS OF CONTROL OFFICES, ETC.
VARIETY OF SOURCES: COMINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, SENSORS:,, GROUND
PROBLEM IN THAT THE BULK OF OUR PRECIISE, -DETAILED
IGENCE WAS COMINT REZ3C DERIVED AND IF OUR.
=COU'LD BE MADE TOTALLY ADEQUATE THIS INTELLIGENCE
PROBLEM WOULD BE LARGELY SOLVED. LOGISTICS INFILTRATION WAS
A MORE COMPLEX MOSAIC. ESSENTIAL PIECES WERE PROVIDED BY A
CONSIDER, I. E., LAOS-DOWN AND K'~,; CAMBODIA (SIMANOUKVTLLYl U,4-'.
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Ds' CIDED TO START BY ATTACKING THE VARIOUS PIECES OF THE `O TA
'do t+?F EM SEPARATELY, SEEING V FIAT COULD BE DONE WITHIN THE'
PA AME.T_E.RS. OF CURRENT EFFORTS AN-4P, THEN LOO G. TO POTENT.i 1,L
FRUITFUL ADD- O NS.
(7) IN LINE WITH THE T -HIN CI E t OUTLINED ABOVE, TI
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THE ENEMY'S LOGISTICS SYSTEM IT PROMPTLY SUBDrVE- ITSELF INTO
THREE SUB-GROUPS: ONE LOOKING AT THE LAOS SYSTEM, ONE AT
THE CAMBODIA SYSTEM AND ONE CANVASSING NEW HA DWARE OR
COLLECTION TECHNIQUES.
(8) THE. INITIAL DRAFT SUBMISSIONS OF EACH OF THE THREE
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SUBCOMMITTEES WILL BE REVIEWED AND DISCUSSED BY THE WHOLE
COMMITTEE ON 19 FEBRUARY. IA I'v1, SURE, ; rE WILL NEED AT LEAST f- J,?7
MORE GO-AROUND AT THE' SUBC01oMI:ITTE El LEVEL BEFORE 1/ E BEGIN
C?O'I+.i BIKING INPUTS INTO A. SINGLE PAPER. W E HAVE NO FIXED Dl r, '.,`at3
155UTART' LUND =R THE GUN TO SEND THE r. OMPL. ETED STUDY AND
' tom. .~ ENDATIO OPTIONS PACXAG.E? FORWARD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
(9) ONE OF THE FIRST OBSERVATIONS I MADE FROM THE CHAIR
AT OUR INITIAL MEETING WAS THE ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF HAVING
THE VIEWS OF ALL CONCERNED FIELD! COMPONENTS, ESPECIALLY MACV
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AND CINCPAC, ADEQUATELY' VOICED, CONSIDERED AND REFL
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OUR FINAL SUBMISSION. COMMITTEE ASSENT ON THIS SCORE-WAS
IMMEDIATE AND-UNANIMOUS. THE MAIN OBJECT OF THIS MESSAGE IS,
TO SOLICIT- YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE OPTIMUM - O'.OBTAINLNG
THE NECESSARY MACV AND ?CINCPAC INPUTS. I REALIZE THERE ARE A
NUMBER OF COMPLEX QUESTIONS HERE: INVOLVED, 'INCLUDING VALID
TO APPRISE YOU1 AND GENERAL KEEGAN, OF DEVELOPMENTS IN ORDER
CONSIDERATIONS OF MILITARY STAFF PROCEDURE: AND PROTOCOL. I AM
CERTAINLY OPEN TO ANY SUGGESTIONS YOU OR. GENERAL N KEEGAN MA Y
WANT TO OFFER, THROUGH ANY CHANNEL. WE COULD SEND )MlCXNJM!JR
PRELIMINARY DRAFTS OF THE COMBINED PAPER CINCPAC AND M CV
FOR COMMENT OR. I: AT LEAST, WOULD WELCOME THE PARTI IPATICiN
OF M.ACV AND CINCPAC.OFFICE S II T.? -E FV o K OF OUR. WASHINGTON
C:OMMUTTI:.E. I WOULD APPRECIATE RECEIVING YOU . THOUGHTS ON THIS
TOPIC-, AS SOON AS YOU. CAN CONVENIENTLY TRANSMIT THEM.
10,` IN LIGHT O. THEIR i--'I' IOU ` C OONCFRN W' ITH THE : AT ":SRS
C. 3 3` IDEi ET), I AIM ASIZING M Y C L::: E t: g '',T..,s IN
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THANK . YOU AGAIN FOR 'YZ-'; UR TI Z AND COURTESY LAST
DECEMBER. WITH BEST PERSONAL. REGARDS,
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