THE IMPACT OF REDUCTIONS OF U.S. FORCES ON INTELLIGENCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R001300100017-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: REPORT

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TIDE I1~IPACT OF REDUCTIONS OF U. S . FOP.CES ON
INTELLIGENCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
The Problem
1. A subject of considerable concern and discussion within
the Agency for the past two years has been the probable. impact
of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam on the com-
munity's intelligence collection and analysis capabilities.
Numerous efforts have been made to encourage our military col-
leagues to focus on this critical problem area early in the game
so that orderly and systematic steps would be in train to insure
that priority intelligence needs would be met as the inevitable
drawdown progressed. The matter has been the subject of exten-
sive debate and soul searching on the intelligence side, both
here and in the field by military and civ-+l.ian components alike,
but without satisfactory resolution? While-the intelligence
components have been debating, 'the drawdown of theater assets
has been proceeding at a merry pace dictated by politically in-
structed logisticians. Attempts, over time, to determine the.
exact degree of degradation of intelligence activities have
gone for naught since the pace and magnitude of withdrawal has
been known only to a few7which on occasion included the opera-
tional side of tl?e military house.
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The Need for Intelligence Continues
2. As the U.S. presence ir. Vietnam has dwindled, the
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