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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY : NARA

RECORD NUMBER : 176-10038-10000

RECORD SERIES : Personal Papers of James C. Thomson

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM : Colby

TO : Cooper

TITLE : Memo W/, Attachment

DATE : 8/26/1965

PAGES : 2

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CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS : Thomson: Southeast Asia, vietnam, 1965, General, 8/65, box 26. Box 8

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

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26 AUG 1965

MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Chester L. Cooper

National Security Council

SUBJECT:

Alleged Plan for Joint SVN/GRC and SVIN/

RTG Clandestine Operations Against DRV

and Laog

Attached herewith for your Information is information recelved

through CAS channels from Colonel Donald D. Blackburn, Chief, MACV/

SOG.

FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR PLANS:

signed/Joseph W. 8n16R

william E. Colby

Attachment:

As stated.

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At Ambassador Johnson's request, following information received

from Col. Blackburn, Chief MACV/SOG, is being transmitted to addees

through CAS channels:

2. Blackburn's information, received from responsible Vietnamese

military official who accompanied Ky on recent trip to Taiwan and Bangkok,

follows:

a. In Taiwan, Chinats told Vietnamese that they formerly and/

or currently associated with SOG maritime and airops in DRV and would

like, with assistance SOG boats Vietnamese govt. support, attempt run /

Chinat intel operations into former Nung areas along DRV Cowut from

Haiphong North to Red China border.

b. In Bangkok, Thais said they anxious cooperate with Viet-

namese in mounting joint operations from Thailand into Laos panhandle,

but recommended strongly against consultation with Americans since

Americans would probably cite Geneva Agreement or other political reasons

why these joint efforts should not be undertaken.

3. Following additional information from Blackburn, same ultimate

source, given CAS Saigon: Lao military and/or govt, urging establishment

branch Vietnamese Strategic Technical Service (STS) in Vientiane for purpose

of training far and later mounting joint operations into DRV. Informant

indicated to Blackburn that these operations would not be cleared with us.

4. All above for passage Ambassadors and Dept..

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