(Sanitized) DEVELOPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500040056-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: October 5, 1966
• Content Type: MF

SECRET 25X1 .
Approved. 1-`Release 2004/07/08 : CIA-RDP80R0R000500040056-8
5 October 1966
;:v. =ORANDUM FOR:. The Director
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m and exchanged views thereon with Messrs. Colby, Smith, and
if you want to send a re lacement emissary, the best man for
2. e other matters; Attached is a letter from I Iwhich arrived
a :day. It is a shame that he has to be pulled out, though medically
is no choice. I have, thought some more about the replacement
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ail factors considered) is
not c ue to return to Hqs. until June, 1967, but since he has been in
25X1 I ince May 1963, 1 would have no compunction about pulling him out
25X1 ,iC c of schedule. is an aggressive, imaginative and very capable
c:r, with native fluency in French. (He looks like a.French rubber
r. I-xe has spent over five years in Vietnam (1954 - 1960) and two
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background knowledge on Vietnam as anyone I know and is a walk
:, c clvpedia on Vietnamese personalities. I had designs on him for our
after his return anyway. I am still not sure a replacement is
-.ccssary and would like to discuss this matter with you at your convenience.
George A. Carver, Jr.
Special Assistant for .Vietnamese Affairs
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