IDENITY OF MILITARY OFFICER

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01435038
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: July 19, 1973

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19 July 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. William E Colby
SUBJECT : Identity of Military Officer
1. You apparently asked to try to find
the name of the officer who objected to being assigned to Phoenix
activities leading to the 18 May 1970 directive within Phoenix saying
that military officers who objected to policd-type activities, even
though conducted in accordance with the rules of land warfare, could
be relieved of such duties without prejudice to their careers
2. I don't know what
have found the following:
come up with, but I
(1) The officer in question may have been a
(2) The officer was a going through the
Phoenix orientation c�urseeof 10 days at Vung Tau in the
time frame. He had not been involved in
Phoenix otherwise, and never served in the program be-
cause he was immediately transferred to a line unit (his
secondary MOS
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(4) There was a
Saigon and had a big hand
who was brought up to
No one seems to be able to find any record of him.
Deputy Special Assistant
for Vietnamese Affairs
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