REQUIREMENT FOR POSSIBLE AIR RESUPPLY OF(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00961R000100050039-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 2, 1961
• Content Type: MF

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Chief,
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Requirement for Possible .Air Best
insurgents
]who, is now Chief of operations for
o, ask for a D paper on our capability to SUIV~y
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position with the understanding that no action can be taken without highest
level political approvals.
is reported be hiding in the hills following the
He sane that in view of highest level
interest in this questie , has been called upon to provide an Agency
2. Therefore., I would e reciate it
r on I)PDI& air resupply capability based
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following set of eastu p
a. s and motion in as y undisclosed a uanti
have to be air dropped into remote mountain area" of the
the V o S. base, ,i.. e, r
b. The only air bases available for such air "supply would
be U. S. owned; i.e., either R. d. Rabin from a ZI military bass
or one-way AxWe staged from a ZI base terminating after drop in
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does not appear to be material; in other -wards, I infer that
markings could be used.
military bases can be used, the question of U. B. military markings
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solved at this stage, but in view of the assumption t
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d. The question of marked or unmarked aircraft
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3. 1 believe this need only be a preliminary estimate of our capability
having to do for example with the maximum number of flights which could be
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our capability to carry on sustained air drops of this sort; i.e., for what
length period could a maxim= effort be mounted in view of our present limita-
tions on aircraft and manpower? You may wish to fudge a bit on the question
of numbers of aircraft avai .able1 since if this requirement is to materialize
at all, it appears likely it will do so in the ves ne~a r future before we have
given back all the C-54's which were borrowed from
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rAi A. CUNHINCHAM, JR.
Assistant Chief
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