The US Interdiction Campaign in North Vietnam

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T01719R000400030003-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 24
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 18, 1972
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2001/09/01 : CIA-RDP80T01719R000400030003-5
18 July 1972
The US Interdiction Camoaian in North Vietnam
Concslus ions
The US target system posited for the implemen-
tation of the air interdiction campaign in the. JCS
memorandum of 15 June has some significant strong
points. The campaign -- Operation Linebacker ----
is, for the most part, limited #~z) those targets
related --c) North Vic Lnam' s war-sueportive, capa-
bility. The program avoids some of .the diffusion
of effort: characteristic of the Rolling Thunder
.pro ,Tram -nd seems generally to conform to basic
principles o.- sound target selection.
The program is profiting from a number of
features absent from Rolling Thunder, such as the
relatively aeLl-nt-ral.i_zed (management of the day-
to--day effort and the introduction of improved tech--
nology. Purtherrnore, the rapidity- with which the
effort h