OPERATION MILLPOND

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02144294
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2020
• Case Number: F-2014-00402
• Publication Date: November 27, 1973

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Deputy Director for Opera lone
Chief, Services Staff
Operation KIUPOND
Memorandum for the ODO from Irigad tar
Gambrel Tosser, Jr., V.S. Army, Sam.
Subject, dated 20 November 1973
1. This nesorandun recemmends your approval of referent
request for CIA concurrnce is briefing the next-of-kin of
two U.S. Army officers shower, killed in Lace in 1961.
Background information to as follows:
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(b)(3)
nce Air America
had only a very few helicopter pilots at that time, "sheep-
dipped" U.S. Army and Marine Corp. pilots were provided to
Air America under MILLPOND until additional civilian aircrews
could be employed.
b. The disposition of the two U.S. Army pilots
killed in the was handled by Air America.
The parents at the two pilots, both of whom 'ere single, have
only been told by' the Army that their sone had resigned from (b)(3)
the Army and apparently had died as sercemaries. The families
have found this mast diffieult to accept.
e. I understand that one an two consommummok who
became interested in the case also were never briefed on the
true situation.
2. Given the time that has elapsed since the two Army
officers were killed and the records now public on U.S.
Government involvement in Southeast Asia, I straitly recommend
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that the records on these two young officers be cleared
and that their next,of-kin receive the posthumous recognition
and awards their sons so rightly deserved. If you concur in
this recommendation, the attached letter addressed to the
Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations has boon pre
pared tor your signature.
Attachment:
Lotter
COlgellis
(signed) Evan J. Parker, Jr..
/Van J. Parker, Jr.
Chief, special Operations Group
Services Staff
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1 - ADDO (w/att)
1 - C/CCS (w/att)
1 - OGC (w/att)
1 - C/EA (w/att)
1 - SA/DDS (w/att)
1 - DDM&S (w/att)
1 - C/SS/SOG (w/att)
1 - C/SS/SOG/AMB (w/att)
1 - SS/SOG/RI (w/o/att)
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Chief of Staff fer Military
Operations, Department of the Army
ATTENTION
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SUBJECT
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REFERENCE
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Director of Operations
Operation MILLPOND
Your memorandum SPM 91-73, 20 November 1973,
same subject
The Central Intelligence Agency concurs in your
proposal to brief the parents of Lieutenants Mateer and
Wizbowski concerning the true circumstances of the deaths
of those two officers. This Agency will provide any
assistance you may require that is consistent with con-
tinuing security considerations.
William E. Nelson
Deputy Director for Operations
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