As far as and SF Opn inthe event of any events re: the bosses, it was a planned raid on LBJ, Long Binh Jail, the USARV stockade. It never really got past the talking at the O-club stage, despite rumors to the contrary.
The raid *on the USARV stockade* was to have utilized two NVA RPD machineguns for shooting down the Huey helicopter it was flying in from Ton Son Nhut to visit MG Talbott at Lai Khe/III Corps, circa August,1969. I've heard some of the stories about a possible snatch of the prisoners/hostages [mentioned by Rothblatt, Rheault's defense attorney, who was the one willing to spill the beans about the coming Cambodian operations unless the charges were dropped, as they were.]
But the plan to see that Abrams got his share of any *accident* that befell Col. Rheault/Bob Marasco and the others while in custody was probably either independently developed by *the Captain from Algiers* or was compartmentalized to appear so-but certainly included at least some CIA foreknowledge, if not outright approval: an AA flight was to be available to evacuate any survivors, and once in Thailand, resettlement in a couple of other locations where CIA *leper colony* personnel had previously been stashed with success was to be arranged.
As for William Wooldridge, he was one of those good ol' boy WWII NCOs you'd mentioned, having made the North African and D-Day landings with the 1st Infantry, then serving as the 24 Infantry's CSM [which was got the CID investigators after him in the first place, following up on fraud and skimming from the 24th Infantry's club system in Munich and Augsburg] before Abrams endorsed him for MACV SMAJ- he'd also served with First Infantry in Vietnam, though I believe it was while the First's headshed was at Di An, and not as Division SMAJ- he was a Battalion or Brigade SMAJ then, then his tour in Germany with the 24th followed. The club scandals and PX goods black marketeering was bad enough, but when it was found that heroin was being shipped back to CONUS in the bodies of dead American soldiers transiting the USARV mortuary in Saigon, it really hit the fan, though narcotics trafficing charges weren't filed against CSM Woolridge or others of his *khaki mafia* so far as I know....and, if they had been, I doubt it would have just been enlisted men whose careers would have gone down the tubes, though Wooldridge's name and face still appear glowingly on Army PIO *I-love-me* photos of current and former CSM of the Army photo montages.
Creighton Abram's *good old boy* pal William Wooldridge is the one at the top left. When Abrams was Vice-Chief of Staff of the Army, CSMJ Woolridge was the Army's senior enlisted man.
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