MORNING MEETING OF 13 APRIL 1966

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: April 13, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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13 April 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Morning Meeting of 13 April 1966
of OSI gave a background briefing on ChiCom and Soviet
chemical warfare programs. DCI said he believed it important to
develop an interagency working group to follow and report currently
on any evidence relating to the possibility of Communist-introduction
of chemical warfare capabilities into the fighting in Vietnam. He
noted the importance of ensuring that the Community does all that is
necessary to avoid being taken by surprise by any such development.
DD/I passed out copies of the NIS, fresh off the presses, on
Communist China. DCI discussed the desirability of making copies of
this available to White House staffers, PFIAB members, and Congres-
sional subcommittees.
DD/I supplemented by remarks from the DD/S&T briefed on the
state of our information about the Yak-28 jet fighter in Western hands
in Berlin. DCI said he was interested in fire control and radar equip-
ment aboard this aircraft.
Godfrey, DD/P, and deSilva discussed the latest situation in South
Vietnam. Indications continue to mount that the Ky government will be
replaced. Among successors mentioned are
(See Action 1
Kent noted that a Memo to Holders was issued yesterday on the
security situation in Mexico City.
deSilva noted the CBS television program last night concerning the
PAT program. It was a well-done and favorable program which specif-
ically made the point that the CIA sponsors the PAT program.
Houston noted Senator Jackson's suggestion that our Chief of Station
in Saigon be put in contact with Eric Sevareid, who is soon to travel to
Vietnam. It was agreed that this would be done.
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DD/S&T said he would be at for the next two days in
connection with a conference of senior DD/S&T officials.
DD/P noted word of a Viet Cong plot to kill Buddhist leader Tam
Chau and an equally prominent Catholic leader. The move would be
intended to appear to be a governmental assassination of the two
leaders. DCI directed that this information be covered in our publica-
tions today.
DD/P noted a Reuters report of a shake-up in British Intelligence.
The report is overdone, but British Intelligence has suffered some
substantive reversals in recent months.
Executive Director reported briefly on his appearance yesterday
at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk. He suggested that in
the future Agency students at this facility be as representative as pos-
sible of all parts of the Agency in order to improve the balance of our
representation there.
ACTION:
1. DCI requested that DD/I, SAVA, and FE consult and prepare
for issuance biographic sketches on all Vietnamese candidates currently
mentioned as possible replacements for Ky and Company.
L. K. White
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