RUSK'S REQUEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500040079-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: September 19, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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Release 2004/07/08 : CIA-RDP880 208000500040079-3
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19 September 1966
.' y0RANDUM FUR: The Director
~* - - Rusk's Request
~RENC.: State Telegram 49432
The Secretary has obviously concluded that there is a
operation and that the information fed us the Under 5ecre
oint out to
d to
p
basis in fact. As we trie
judgment that
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this is a
office
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ire our meeting in Ni lcNamara
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cannot be made or drawn wno N {3udoii g fx m
~y,h~ is nova kraawn in V ashington,
;vklat is really known in Saigon. I? you thini; the political
;lei ics would permit it, I strongly urge that the secretary's
to this fact. We may
~~'~: =osp directed
,.:ration be discreetly but firmly lopment -;,r? something in train and, if we doit
cannot beesure and he ce,or
??tancc, but at this -stage we really
rove unfounded.
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George A. Carver, 'Jr..
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