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31.
Ibid. This was derived from the lists of "Significant Engagements" and trMajor Opel'ationsMap" on the monthly evalu8,tion. Total activity of both GVN and US units for January l-ras reported as: Operations (Bn or Larger/With Contact )_
Battalion Days
29 2/ 1 52 38/35
2,165 1,400
GVN US 32.
CINCPAC 182210Z January 1967 . Destruction and interdiction missions in the Laotian Panhandle had not been as productive in November and December 1966 as everyone had hoped, and as military calculations increasingly turned on infiltration figures, efforts were made in mid-January to seek improved measures . On 15 January 1967 , General Westmoreland, LTG Momyer and their staffs met with Ambassadors Martin and Sullivan at Udorn. [See: CO~illS~~CV 01819 (Section I and II) for Admiral Sharp, info to General Wheeler from General Westmoreland, Subj: "Udorn Conference," dated 16 January 1967 .7 Little came of the conference except renel'red efforts to cut reaction times and improve coordination. COMUSMACV's efforts to amend rules of enga,gement met State resistance, a harbinger of the resistance that was to meet future efforts to expand operations in Laos and Cambodia.
33.
CINCPAC 252126z January 1967 to JCS, "Modifications to Current Programs to Improve the Anti -Infiltration Aspect of Our Overall Strategy," 25 January 1967 .
34.
Ibid.
35.
COMUSMACV "Practice Nine Req,uirements Plan," 26 January 1967, forwarded under CM 2134-67 (22 February 1967) and JCSM 97-67.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Ibid;
38.
Ibid. See the discussion of CI NCPAC 060820Z February 1967 in the following pages.
39.
JC SM-97-67 , Subj: 22 February 1967 .
40.
Ibid.
41.
CM-2134-67, "PRI\.CTICE IITINE Requirements Plan, dated 26 January 1967, (U) ," dated 22 February 1967.
1.~2..
CIA SNIE 57-67, tlSignificance of Cambodia to the Vietnamese Communist '\ITar Effort, 11 dated 26 January 1967.
"MACV PRACTICE NINE Requirements Plan," dated
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