“...having investigated everything carefully from the beginning”
There is a difference between investigation and what we call in the Army “MSU OPS.”
On said subject, have you had to conduct investigations, depose witnesses which could result in someone’s incarceration, loss of salary or loss of job?
Closest I got was report of survey investigation.
I was an infantry officer back then, and most of our expertise was focused on fire support planning and land navigation. I did work as Bn Signal and Bn Intelligence officer, and there I added terrain profiling to our routine skill set, to assess where to put the radios, where to point their antennas, and what were the essential elements of enemy information. (when they occupied their forward artillery positions and attack positions).
Dy you mean MSU as in Michigan State University? They had an early contract to teach counter subversion to the Army.
“The CIA connection even at this early date(1957) is implied with a report submitted by the South Vietnam CIA Station Chief to the U.S.Ambassador SVN wherein he complains of communications difficulties reported by the Police Division MSU. By 1960 the efforts of MSU were deemed woefully lacking, due in large part to the inadequacy of the communications it provided, and the methods used to train personnel. In respect to the later, it was complained by SVN President Diem, “they were being armed with pistols & trained like State Hiway Patrolman”. In all fairness, President Diem until 1960 had insisted that defence planning be directed towards countering a communist invasion from the north rather than internal security. With this mind set he wanted these militia units to be included as a branch of the Army of South Vietnam[ARVN].
In 1960, the U.S. Operations Mission replaced the MSU Advisory effort with the Office of Public Safety[OPS], also called the Public Safety Division. Recognizing the primary reason for the failure of MSU, the OPS opened an internal department called the Telecommunications Directorate. Noting too the previous troubles encountered when assigning technical task to bureaucrats, the U.S. Agency for International Development hired experienced civilian engineers for the job. These engineers had a clear mandate, to develop and install, equipment and systems, specifically intended to link the smallest of villages and hamlets with every level of
authority all the way up to the highest in Saigon. They needed simple and reliable communications. “