THE HEADQUARTERS PLANNING TEAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00780R001400010017-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 21, 1966
• Content Type: DISP

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FROM
CHIEF OF STATION, VIETNAM
MICROFILM
SUBJECT
THE HEADQUARTERS PLANNING TEAM
ACTION REQUIRED ? REFERENCES
1. UPON DEPARTURE TEAM,
MESSRS. THE
STATION WISHES TO COMMEND EACH MEMBER OF THE TEAM INDIVIDUALLY,
AS WELL AS THE TEAM ITSELF AS AN ENTITY FOR A JOB WELL DONE.
2. THE RDC SUPPORT PLAN, COPIES OF WHICH YOU HAVE RE-
CEIVED, REPRESENTS MANY HOURS OF EXACTING AND ORIGINAL RESEARCH
INTO THE INNERMOST DEPTHS OF THE RDC PROGRAM, PAST AND PRESENT.
COMPILED DATA WAS PRESENTED IMAGINATIVELY AND USEFULLY CONVERTED
INTO VALUABLE RDC FACTORS AND ACTIVITY INDICATORS NEEDED TO
PRODUCE THE RDC SUPPORT PLANS FOR FY-1967 AND FY-1968. THESE
SAME FACTORS AND INDICATORS WILL CONTINUE TO BE USEFUL IN
BUDGETING AND PLANNING RDC AND SIMILAR STATION ACTIVITIES IN
THE FUTURE.
3. FURTHER, AT THE REQUEST OF THE CHIEF OF STATION, THE
PLANNING TEAM WILLINGLY UNDERTOOK A SECOND MAJOR TASK NOT
FORESEEN WHEN THEY LEFT HEADQUARTERS IN AUGUST 1966. THIS WAS
AN EXAMINATION OF THE STATION'S SIZE, DIRECTION, AND MAKEUP
THROUGH FY-1969, INCLUDING A REGIONAL ORGANIZATION NOW IN ITS
FORMATIVE STAGES. THE PLANNING TEAM DEVELOPED THE FORMAT AND
LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE STATION'S FY 1969
PLAN.
4. 1 WISH YOU WOULD SEE THAT THIS STATEMENT OF THE
STATION'S APPRECIATION AND COMMENDATION BECOMES A MATTER OF
RECORD IN THE PERSONNEL FILE OF EACH OF THE THREE MEMBERS
OF THE PLANNING TEAM.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
Please add my warm endorsement to the commenda-
tions given you, the Office of Training, and by Colonel
Smith for the excellent support rendered the U. S. Army Intelligence School.
It is always a pleasure to see our people receive
such compliments. I know that they are well deserved.
Att: Letter dtd 12 Oct 66 to Hon. Richard
M. Helms fr Commandant/AIS, subj:
Appreciation for Agency Support
Distribution:
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