RECOMMENDED PUBLICATION OF SELECTED PORTIONS OF THE MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THE SO-CALLED MCNAMARA REPORT, 'THE RULES OF AIRSTRIKES IN ATTAINING U.S. OBJECTIVES IN NORTH VIETNAM'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00967A001000020027-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: April 14, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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1. Ruing the proposal in par*4ma 3.a# of the reference,
we agreed yesterday that I shculd caill, I end try to a rrano
for. (a) PtA publtca:ttt of the mate al, in
0peaux B @perstios 1.
leis of the Rell.i Attack); and (6) M publication of
a e a t s r t a l in A p p e n d i x C ( A p p r a i s a l of the 'Effects of the ft Zing).
We also Ngved that such pub l.eaticrne 3.d she reference to the
report for IcWmars, and that we would elinUate all
reference to recommendations and my criticism of 11olling 'ceder
erations
2. Foll ng n caul to C * with 1.3 and was
given their for publication; , Opreaference was
either that CIA publish both appendices or that they be published
an a joint CIN~PZA report. 3h the latter casep he ted the
report should note that CIA bad done the analytical work that
many of the tuts had cam from DIA.
two optic I told him that we
not wish to ptabltsh the
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4. You asked late yesterday whether II bad MaXomwes or
Vowel's wawa.. at h" not checked this. fiver, 1 will go beck
to 0 on this if yo wish. other question., of course, is
whether we are willing to publish Appwdix B and C as a joint report .
Ireeomwmd that we do so.
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