ABSTRACT
Ambassador Hinton had never been given instructions to win the war. He had been given instructions to maintain the status quo and not let the thing slide. But when Ambassador Pickering came in, the game plan had very evidently changed. His first words to me … were, “I want you to get Fred Woerner up here and I want a strategy for bringing 90 percent of the terrain and population under control of the government in two years. …”
