SOME COMMENTS ON YOUR PAPER 'POSSIBLE CHINESE REACTIONS TO THE OXCART PROGRAM'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00904A001300020005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 2, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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2 April 1966
SUBJECT: Some Comments on your Paper "Possible
Chinese Reactions to the OXCART Program"
1. I personally am inclined to think that the last
sentence of paragraph 2 is a bit weak given the Japanese
aversion to all things atomic.
2. In view of the item in the PDB and the CIB today
about Soviet defense exercises against a simulated A-11
attack, I wonder if it would not be useful to have some
language in this paper dealing with Soviet reaction to a
Chinese announcement that we had overflown China.
3. You might disposeXi-your paper e a Chinese
Communist reaction consisting of foot soldiers into North
Vietnam. It is not a reaction which I can conceivably
regard as likely, but somehow it occurs to the reader,
when considering this problem, and might well be put to rest.
Please return the paper when finished and I will show it to
the Director.
Richard Helms
Deputy Director
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