MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL JOSEPH F. CARROLL FROM WALTER ELDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000500080012-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 25, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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Abaastar Taylor.
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cheek CV tfUtrati figures have upon o3mmiesat on
reached judgment that MA s latest figures can be
verified and therefore considered dependable. This raises
the most serious problems because estimates of 1962 and
1963 were only a fraction of t #* t reported by M.A('.
Therefore addition to your statement that c .tree tt ftgtaras
are correct, we rr
was the basis for the c
U. if intelt
was based was frae
why war
undependable
ores
ad as a confident
judgment?
c- Are eere any cuss or d&partures In sources,
criteria. or a ethc-401"y from those u=led in prio
which accounts for the ct e
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d. Other factors that have entered into
this analysis which might be responsible for tb
substantial change.
This matter of the utmost importance. Therefore
penetrating on-site examination of all facts relating
to the above questions with respect to estimates of MACV
and CAS for years 1962 1963. and 1964.
WALTER ELDER
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