MEMORANDUM FOR GENERAL JOSEPH F. CARROLL FROM WALTER ELDER
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RIFPUB
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S
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2
Document Creation Date:
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date:
October 10, 2002
Sequence Number:
12
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Publication Date:
November 25, 1964
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ORA t(DU mr
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4 Nov. r ber by CIA cbeee e
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fires
Abaastar Taylor.
Terms
of a "Part
cheek CV tfUtrati figures have upon o3mmiesat on
reached judgment that MA s latest figures can be
verified and therefore considered dependable. This raises
the most serious problems because estimates of 1962 and
1963 were only a fraction of t #* t reported by M.A('.
Therefore addition to your statement that c .tree tt ftgtaras
are correct, we rr
was the basis for the c
U. if intelt
was based was frae
why war
undependable
ores
ad as a confident
judgment?
c- Are eere any cuss or d&partures In sources,
criteria. or a ethc-401"y from those u=led in prio
which accounts for the ct e
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d. Other factors that have entered into
this analysis which might be responsible for tb
substantial change.
This matter of the utmost importance. Therefore
penetrating on-site examination of all facts relating
to the above questions with respect to estimates of MACV
and CAS for years 1962 1963. and 1964.
WALTER ELDER
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