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...Wiesner. With a larger group...
...Wiesner. All the science advisors and all the previous directors of DDR&E, including (Harold) York and Harold Brown, who was head of DDR&E at that time. To a man we were opposed to both the big system and, as far as I recall, the smaller system too, some of us more vigorously than others. And he not only made the decision to deploy the small system, but McNamara then sort of misused, I'd say, our position there in support of the small system. I think that we may have had many reasons to feel ill-used...
...Wiesner. A pointed brush...
...Wiesner. No, the study came about in another way. We had a small, self-initiated discussion group in Boston whose purpose was to see whether we couldn't find an acceptable way of stopping the war. We looked at a large variety of different ideas, and every time we thought we had one that looked acceptable to all sides, we would try to get the President to listen...
...Wiesner. What actually happened on the study referred to in the Times was that we began to examine General (James) Gavin's enclave proposal seriously and we decided we didn't have enough facts about where the troops were, where the civilian population was, and a great number of other important questions. We called somebody, I believe it was John McNaughton (Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs) and asked him for a briefing and he said he would send up (Adam) Yarmolinsky (Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense) to give us the data we wanted. And Yarmolinsky...