INTERDEPARTMENTAL FIELD VISITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000100100019-2
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 18, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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CONFIDENTIAL
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 173
July 18, 1962
TO: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Attorney General
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director of Central Intelligence
The Administrator, Agency for International
Development
The Director, United States Information Agency
The Chairman, Special Group (Counterinsurgency)
SUBJECT: Interdepartmental Field Visits
I feel that there is a need for accelerating our programs
for underdeveloped countries and for effecting a closer tie
between the Country Team planning in these areas and the
Washington departments which participate in these programs.
It would seem to me that the technique of interdepartmental
team visits used last fall in South Viet-Nam and early this
year in certain Latin American countries could be broadened
and applied to this requirement.
To this end, I would like to have organized a program of
field visits by senior interdepartmental teams, under State
Dep?ertment chairmanship, to a number of selected countries,
with particular attention to Latin America. These teams
would consult with the Ambassador, his staff and local
officials, would review the Country Team plans, and would
form a judgment as to their adequacy, their consistency with
United States objectives, and the reliability of the intelli-
gence upon which they are based. Upon return to Washington,
the teams would submit appropriate recommendations to me,
through the Secretary of State, for strengthening' United
States activities in the countries visited which, when
approved, would receive the same kind of intensive
implementation as that being accorded the current South
Viet-Nam program.
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I would like the Secretary of State, in consultation with
the Special Group (Counterinsurgency) to initiate as a
matter of urgency a program of visits of the kind outlined
above.
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