Chapter 5

Endnotes

1 Mission Council Action Memo No. 191, 8 May 67, sub: Opening Remarks by Ambassador Bunker at Mission Council Meeting, I May 67.

2 Memo, Komer for Bunker, 5 May 67, sub: Completing the Transition Intern with Komer, 30 Mar 72. Also Interv with Westmoreland, 18 Apr 75.

3 Memo, Montague for Komer, 6 May 67, sub: Tactics.

4 Interv, Charles B. MacDonald with Gen Forsythe, 16 Jun 77.

5 Memo, T. McAdams Deford for Komer, 9 May 67, sub: Suggestions for Regional Director's Meeting. Interv with Knowlton, 26 Jan 70.

6 Msgs, Saigon 25028 to State, and Saigon 25029 to State, both 8 May 67: and Msg, State 190928 to Saigon, 9 May 67.

7 Memo, Komer for Bunker, 8 May 67; interv with Komer, 12 May 72.

8 Statement by Amb Bunker at Press Conference, Saigon, 1 1 May 67. Komer drafted the statement; Westmoreland approved it.

9 Memo for Record, Brig Gen John R. Chaisson, 21 May 67, sub: MACV Commanders' Conference, 13 May 67.

10 Directive, MACV Chief of Staff, undated but probably 12 May 67, sub Terms of Reference for Organization Steering Group.

11 Memo, Komer for MACV Chief of Staff, 12 May 67, sub: Terms of Reference for Steering Group on Organization for RD Support.

12 Memo, Organization Sub-Committee to Chairman of the Organization Steering Group, 16 May 67, sub: Integration of MACV RDSD and the Office of Civil Operations. See also Col Montague's marginal notes on the subcommittee's operating assumptions memo, 16 May 67, and Memo, Montague for Komer, 17 May 67, sub Organizational Issues.

13 Intervs with Komer. 6 Nov 69 and 5 Jun 72.

14 Memo, Komer for Westmoreland, 23 May 67, sub: Integration of OCO/RDS Activities Within MACV, with attached staff study: Memo, Komer for Westmoreland, n.d., sub: Integration of OCO/RDS Activities Within MACV, with five ends. Hqs, MACV, Directive 10-12, 28 May 67, sub: Organizations and Functions for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, and Hqs, MACV, Change 4 to Organizations and Functions Manual, 28 May 67; Change 4 details the functions of the Deputy for CORDS, the Assistant Chief of Staff for CORDS, and the divisions under the Assistant Chief of Staff for CORDS.
SETTING UP CORDS

15 MACV Directive 10-12.

16 Change 4 to Organizations and Functions Manual.

17 Interv with Komer, 22 Apr 75.

18 MACV Directive 10-12.

19 Memo, Holbrooke to Leonhart, 6 Jun 67, sub: Reorganization of the United States Mission: An Appraisal So Far.

20 Interv with Knowlton, 26 Jan 70.

21 Memo, Komer for Westmoreland, 5 Jun 67, sub: DEPCORDS Trip to I FFORCEV.

22 Memo, Lt Gen Stanley R. Larsen for Komer, 13 Jun 67, sub: CORES Organization for I FFORCEV, with atchd Memo, Larsen for Westmoreland, 12 Jun 67, sub: Integration of OCO/RDS Activities Within II Corps Tactical Zone, with 2 inc]; Ltr, CG, III Marine Amphibious Force to Westmoreland, 17 Jun 67, sub: Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support Organization and Finction, with 2 incl ; and Ltr, Maj Gen Fred C. Weyand to Westmoreland, 15 Jun 67, sub: Reorganization for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support CORDS) Within III Corps Tactical Zone, with 9 incl.

23 Memo, homer for Westmoreland, 25 Jun 67, sub: Organization for CORDS in CTZs; none of three tabs to the memorandum on recommended corps; organization, changes to the CORDS directive, and changes to the corps proposals has been found, bit the substance of them can be gleaned from the memorandum and from messages sent the next day by Komer to the four corps senior advisers. Msgs, COMUSMACV 21013 to CG, III MAF, sub: CORDS Organization for I CTZ; COMUSMACV 21015 to CG, I FFORCEV, sub: CORDS Organization for FFORCEV: COMUSMACV 21014 to CG, II FFORCEV, sub: CORDS Organization for III CTZ: and COMUSMACV 21016 to Senior Adviser, IV CTZ. sub: CORDS Organization for IV Corps: all dtd 26 Jun 67.

24 Memo, Komer for Westmoreland, 7 Jun 67, sub: DEPCORDS Visit to IV Corps, and the MACV routing slip of 8 Jun 67 to Komer, attached to the memorandum.

25 Note, Komer for Westmoreland, 24 Jun 67.

26 Ltr, Komer to Westmoreland, 1 1 Aug 67. Interv with Komer, 30 Mar 72.

27 Interv with Komer, 30 Mar 72.

28 Memo. Col Moniague for Komer, 13 May 67, sub: Early Decisions/Actions; and Interv with Komer, 15 Jun 72. The III Corps deputy for CORDS, John Vann, was ruled out because of a reputation for criticism of the military advisory program. Much later in the war he did serve as the first and only civilian corps senior adviser, that in the II Corps zone. To point up the importance of the pacification role in the IV Corps, Komer in July 1967 suggested as senior adviser the titular commander of the United States Army, Vietnam, Lt Gen Bruce Palmer, but Westmoreland was reluctant to see him give up his current position. See Memo, Komer for Westmoreland, 9 Jul 67.

29 Msg, COMUSMACV 21016 to Senior Adviser, IV Corps, 26 Jun 67, sub: CORDS Organization for IV Corps.



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