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Chapter 4
Endnotes
1 Three early documents on the organization of
the Office of Civil Operations are important: Draft Memo, Porter for USAID,
OSA, and JUSPAO, 21 Nov 66, sub: Office of Operations-Terms of Reference; Msg,
Saigon 12200 to State, 2 Dec 66, sub: U.S. Mission's Office of Civil Operations-Terms
of Reference; and Memo, Leonard Maynard for JUSPAO, OSA, USAID, et al., 22 Dec
66, sub: OCO Functional Statements and Organization Charts.
2 Memo, Komer for Pres, 28 Feb 67, sub: Change for the Better--Latest
Impressions from Vietnam.
3 Briefing, Brig Gen William A. Knowlton for
Gen Earle G. Wheeler, c. 6-14 Jan 67, sub: U.S. Mission Agency Organization
for Support of Revolutionary Development.
4 Airgram Saigon A-543 to State, 22 Mar 67, sub : OCO Progress
Report.
5 Ltr, Porter to William Bundy, 3 Jan 67. Msg,
Saigon 15479 to State, 13 Jan 67.
6 Chart (developed by AID in Washington), sub: OCO Personnel
as of 23 Feb 67, and Msg, Saigon 21790 to State, 31 Mar 67, sub: Critical VacanciesManagerial.
7 Airgrarn, Saigon A-543. Memo, William Hall for Komer, 6 Feb
67, sub: OCO Financing and Support, and Memo, Komer for Hall, same title and
date.
8 USVNR, IV.C.8, p. 125. Memo of Understanding,
L. Wade Lathram and John L. Hart, 10 Feb 67.
9 Airgram, Saigon A-543.
10 Ibid.
11 Gen Westmorelarid's Historical Briefing,
1 Jan 67.
12 Memo, Leonhart for Pres, 30 Dec 66, sub: Visit to Vietnam-Dec
66, Rpt and Recommendations. Memo, Robert Miller to Unger, 11 Jan 67, sub: Possible
Military Takeover of U.S. RD/P Effort.
13 Memo, Komer for Pres, 28 Feb 67, sub: Change for the Better-Latest
Impressions from Vietnam.
14 Msgs, JCS 0831-67, 30 Jan 67, and JCS 1190-67,
14 Feb 67, Wheeler to Westmoreland.
15 Msg, MACV 1629, Westmoreland to Wheeler, 16-23 Feb 67.
General Westmoreland discusses the subject in his memoirs, A Soldier Reports.
16 Msg, CJCS 1527-67, Wheeler to Westmoreland, 28 Feb 67.
17 Msgs, JCS 1573-67, 1 Mar 67; JCS 1637, 3 Mar 67; and JCS
1815-67, 10 Mar 67; Wheeler to Westmoreland. Westmoreland said later that he
was reluctant to take over the ambassadorship because the job should be handled
by one experienced in political and diplomatic matters. Interv, Charles B. MacDonald
with Westmoreland, 2 Apr 73.
18 Komer, The Organization and Management of
the New Model Pacification Program, pp. 52-53.
19 Interv with Komer, 14 Feb 72. Memo, Leonhart for Walt Rostow,
15 Mar 67.
20 Gen Westmoreland's Historical Briefing, 25 Mar 67.
21 Interv with Knowlton, 26 Jan 70.
22 Gen Westmoreland's Historical Briefing, 25
Mar 67. Interv with Krowlton, 26 Jan 70. Draft Charts (drawn up by Komer and
Montague), Mar 67, sub: Organizational Schematics. Draft NSAM, c. 24 Mar 67,
sub: Responsibility for U.S. Role in Pacification (Revolutionary Development).
23 This paragraph is based on a draft concept paper prepared
by Komer and Montague, 23 Mar 67, sub: Organizational Concepts Governing Integration
of Civil/ Military Responsibility for Pacification (RD) Under COMUSMACV. A basic
document on CORDS organization, the copy used by the author has Westmoreland's
handwritten revisions and a notation by Komer: "Westy's copy, as revised
by him 24 March '67."
24 Memo, Komer for Pres, 27 Mar 67, sub: Shift of Pacification
Responsibility, with attached draft NSAM, sub: Responsibility for U.S. Role
in Pacification (Revolutionary Development). Five versions of NSAM 362, from
drafts prepared in March to the final one, can be found in the CMH Pacification
Research Collection. Textual changes and marginalia usually make it possible
to determine who made changes and when.
25 Memo, Walt Rostow for Rusk and McNamara, 27 Mar 67, sub:
U.S. role in Vietnam Pacification. Memo, Komer for Pres, 27 Mar 67, op. cit.
Comparisons of the drafts of the memorandum indicate that McNamara made only
one substantial change: He removed a phrase that required Komer to report to
Ambassador Bunker, although through Westmoreland. In practice Komer retained
direct access to Ambassador Bunker.
26 USVNR, IV.C.8, p. 128. Interv with Komer, 14 Dec 71.
27 Memo, Komer for Pres, 20 Apr 67. Interv with
Komer, 6 Apr 75.
28 NSAM 362, sub: Responsibility for U.S. Role in Pacification
(Revolutionary Development), 9 May 67.
29 Interv with Komer, 6 Nov 69.
30 Walt W. Rostow, The Diffusion o f Power (New York : The
Macmillan Co., 1972), p. 459, lists the reasons.