I don�?t see any problems.�? Bunker said, �?Where is all this friction coming from?�? Bob told him, �?It is coming from this guy Winship. I told him that as far as I was concerned my people come under him. He understood how I intended to go about it and what my marching orders were and weren�?t. It was testy at first, but he understood exactly what my mission was. Kingston had never met Bunker, but Winship �?had been feeding him a bunch of what called disinformation about me, JCRC, and why we were there.�? Bunker invited Robert to the embassy where �?we had a very enjoyable little meeting. Ambassador to Vietnam, arrived about this time with a subordinate named Steve Winship. Good guys nipped that uprising in the bud and Tom could do no wrong ever after.Įlsworth Bunker, U.S. He warned the DCM with these words: �?I think there�?s about to be a coup.�? His notification was in the nick of time.

The Deputy Chief of Mission soon asked, �?Do you mind if I use Tom in my office? These State Department guys can�?t write worth a damn.�? One day Tom saw armed men loitering near the embassy perimeter. You are not going to get anybody in here.�? Bob�?s response: �?Well, sir, you leave me no choice but to notify OSD, because I am directed to do this.�? OSD�?s written response read, �?Send the guy up to Vientiane�? Godley gave up. If it works out, I will give him some people.�? Godley said, �?No. McMurtrie Godley in Vientiane and said, �?I would like to put Tom Henry up here. He posted people in all four corps headquarters throughout South Vietnam, but found it difficult to get information about crash and grave sites.īob visited Ambassador G.

Together, they recruited the rest.īob picked an Air Force representative for Saigon, a Navy captain for Hanoi, an Army colonel for Vientiane, and a Marine colonel for Phnom Penh, in accordance with terms of the armistice agreement signed in Paris, but Saigon was the only post ever occupied.

The other was Saully Fontaine, a Jedburgh with the OSS who leapt into France at age 17. He agreed.�? Charlie Beckwith, who later led the ill-fated hostage rescue team in Iran (1979), was one of Bob�?s team leaders. While this is a Joint Casualty Resolution Center, I want all of my ground teams to be Army Special Forces. Bob then told General Weyand, �?I am going to have ground teams search the sites. Special Forces Colonel Roger Pezelle, from his Pacific Command perch in Honolulu, described the JCRC�?s mission and tentative composition on three type-written pages. You are going to set up a Joint Casualty Resolution Center (JCRC) at Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. COMUSMACV General Frederick Weyand in December 1972 told brand new Brigadier General Bob Kingston, �?Some of us are going home.

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