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Wiesner. You see, what is important to McNamara is how the information is distilled...
...which had nothing to do with a fence--through the uninhabited jungles through which the Ho Chi Minh trails are cut. We were very uncertain of the feasibility of this scheme. There was a very heated internal debate in August whether we should even present the plan to Mr. McNamara...
Langer. Well, did you feel obligated for political reasons in the summer study to include something about a barrier, or was that McNamara's previous idea...
...aware that we thought of ourselves as what might referred to as His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. We were working through the channels, within the organization, as yet. In my case it was a bitter experience, and it led me outside the channels. Our recommendation to Mr. McNamara, made about Labor Day, 1966, was to confirm our ideas by a detailed, larger study of professionals to be organized within the Department of Defense. You remember that...
Wiemer. And a number of observations, some of which have been in the Pentagon Papers. I think, as the paper said, the study probably played a very decisive role in convincing Secretary McNamara that, in certain respects, the intelligence information he was getting was wrong, that the estimates he was getting of where they were going were not very useful...