LETTER TO R. W. KOMER FROM HENRY A. KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-10-5-10-3
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 22, 1970
• Content Type: LETTER

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 22, 1970
Thank you for your note of December 4.
I shall keep your suggestions in mind as
the programs which you mentioned are
reviewed.
Warm regards,
Henry A. Kist inger
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4 December' 1970
The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger::
Assistanttothe President
.The. White House
Washington, D.C. 20506;
Dear' Henry :
Yes, it . sat least partly a matter of resources, as I keep telling
Colby.. One can't .make bricks without straw and it's an evasion for
the bureaucrats to keep telling you-that resources are no constraint.
See the copy of my reply-tc Colby, which I sent . you, f'or a half dozen
ways to spend dollars and piasters wisely. True, Jacking up Phung
..Hoang wouldn`t cost very much, but it, would.be.a vitally important
symbol that we mean -business..: The-.-Same holds true on the economic
front, where the PAAS surveys.show the villages far more concerned
these days about economic issues Haan security.
0f course, you. put your finger on?the key problem when you remarked.
how difficult it is to get.bureaucracies to shift-..resources`(or take
action). What's-needed is less further studies and analyses than some
' amrod to beat the GVN and MACV over . the head.
Sincerely,
..-W..Komer
RWK/hs
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