MEMORANDUM FOR: ACTING DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR INTELLIGENCE FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Publication Date: July 14, 1966
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14 July 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence
The attached letter to the Director from
John McNaughton requests the Agency to provide intelligence
support during the remainder of the special summer study pro-
ject on Vietnam sponsored by DOD. The Director agrees to
McNaughton's request that CIA provide the desired assistance.
He is equally concerned that we establish appropriate arrange-
ments to ensure that, this assistance does not interfere with
higher priority Agency work.and that the persons identified in
the :letter work with Agency components in such a way as to
receive assistance in an orderly and constructive fashion.
It is obvious that, in addition to the
offices referred to in the letter, other Agency components will
become involved in the problem. Please designate a senior
officer to act both as a channel for assistance and as a point of
control, and prepare a letter for the Director's signature in-
forming McNaughton of our willingness to assist.
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ASSISTANT ScCRETARY OF DIE, NSA
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WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301 J U L 196'
Mr. Richard Helms
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Washinr`on, D. C. 20505
Dear rf elms :
In reply refer to :
1-9592/66
A few weeks ago I wrote you to tell you about a special summer study
project on Vietnam to be undertaken in Wellesley, Massachusetts at
the request of the Secretary of Defense. As you may recall, the
participants in this study were largely drawn from university
faculties, but also included several key members of the Institute
for Defense Analyses. With your permission, Mr. Carver and Mr.
DeSilva of CIA briefed the group during the period 13-24 June.
As a result of the group's deliberations and a meeting with Mr.
McNamara during this period, it was decided to concentrate on
specific aspects of the Vietnam problem for the remainder of the
summer. Four areas for further investigation were identified: an
examination of the data on which estimates concerning Communist
:supply flows and requirements and personnel attrition are based; a
bomb damage study of North Vietnam; an exploration of the
possibility of erecting some sort of a barrier between South Vietnam
an'" its neighbors as a device to cut down or stop the flow of man-
power and supplies from the North; and an ECM study with particular
e niphasis on the command and control arrangements of the North
Vietnamese forces and the Viet Cong and on jamming.
In order to do an effective job on all of these areas of investiga-
tion, it will be of great importance for representatives of the
study group to be able to contact selected individuals and groups of
the CIA. One of the most important tasks is that of coming to grips
with the data problem. George Rathjens, Bruno Augenstein and Chester
Cooper have been asked to provide overall guidance and assistance in
this project. Leonard Wainstein, Charles Fritz, and a few others,
principally from the IDA staff, will undertake the actual investiga-
tion. All the personnel involved have the necessary security
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clearances. I would think that they would find it especially worth-
while if they had access to CLM s Office of National Estimates, Office
of Research and Reports, and the National Photographic Interpretation
Center. I would very much appreciate it if you could make arrange-
ments for these Study Group people to have access to appropriate
personnel and information in these offices, and others where help
might be available.
Colonel Marshall E. Sanders of my staff may be used as a contact for
making; detailed arrangements.
`.- P. McNaughton
s rant Secretary of Defan,;9
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