Endnotes for Chapter X
 
1 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 53-57. (2) Copy of Chief of Staff Memo 320 (14 Oct 61) for Deputy Chiefs of Staff and others. 14 Oct 61, sub: Study of Army Organization. Tab A to Report of the Committee Appointed to Develop and Recommend to the Chief of Staff the Views of the Army General Staff on Project 80, 22 Nov 61. Hereafter cited as Traub Committee Report.
 
2 Ltr, Secy Stahr to Secy McNamara, 16 Oct 61. Kjellstrom Briefing files, Department of the Army Reorganization Project Office (DARPO) files.
 
3 Copy of Memo for Record, Col H. W. O. Kinnard. Executive, OSA, 1 Nov 61. In Kjellstrom Briefing files, DARPO.
 
4 (1) Ibid. (2) Mimeographed Outline, ODCSLOG (General Illig's office), 17 Nov 61, sub: Criticism and Justification for Commodity Assignments Within a Five Command Group. (3) Memo, Mr. [Paul R.] Ignatius, ASA (I&L), for General Traub, 18 Nov 61, on the former's conversation with Mr. Vance and Mr. Horwitz. All in Kjellstrom Briefing files. (4) Army General Staff Council Minutes, 15 Nov 61.
 
5 (1) Army General Staff Council Minutes, 15 Nov 61. (2) Interview, Blumenson with McGregor, I Mar 62. (3) Draft of proposed Talking Paper for General Traub . . . . c. 21 Nov. 61, and Draft of Fact Sheets for Sec Def to Remind Him of Sequence of Events, no date. Kjellstrom Briefing files. (4) Traub Committee Report, p. 11.
 
6 (1) Traub Committee Report. On OPO, see pages 2-4, 17. (2) Interview, Blumenson with McGregor, 1 Mar 62. (3) Interview, Hewes with Lt Col Lewis J. Ashley, 21 Sep 62. Colonel Ashley had been a member of Group F (Personnel) and remained as a member of DARPO to assist in carrying out the final decisions on Project 80. (4) Memo, General Kjellstrom for Hewes, 21 Sep 71.
 
7 (1) Traub Committee Report, p. 4. (2) Army General Staff Council Minutes, 24 Oct 61. (3) Carlisle Barracks Briefings, Project 80 files.
 
8 (1) Traub Committee Report, pp. 1-4, 17, 20. (2) Memo, General Kjellstrom for Hewes, 21 Sep 71.
 
9 Traub Committee Report, pp. 7-9. 
 
10 Ibid., pp. 11-13.
 
11 (1) Ibid., pp. 10-21. (2) Tab C, Preliminary Study Plan of Implementation for a Systems and Materiel Command in the Department of the Army (OSD Project 80) , DCSLOG, 1 Nov 61, pp. 80-98. (3) Tab E, A Study of the Establishment of a Combat Developments Agency, OCRD, 1 Nov 61, p. 17. 
 
12 Inclosure 1 to Traub Committee Report.
 
13 (1) Memo, Colonel McGregor to General Tyson, 16 Nov 61, on briefing for General Taylor. Kjellstrorn Briefing files. (2) Memo for Record, Group A, OSD Project 80 (Army), 31 May 61, sub: Meeting With General Maxwell D. Taylor. Located in Various Military and Civilian VIPS-Briefing and Meeting Memos. Hoelscher files.
 
14 (1) Memo for Record, Colonel Kjellstrom, 24 Nov 61, sub: Briefing of General Maxwell D. Taylor, Special Assistant to the President, on Reorganization of the Army, Kjelistrom Briefing files. (2) Memo, General Kjellstrom for Hewes, 21 Sep 71.
 
15 (1) Memo for Record, Colonel McGregor, 8 Dec 61, sub: Discussion With Chiefs of Technical Services Concerning the Proposed Reorganization of the Department of the Army on 8 December 1961. Colonel Kjellstrom drafted this Memo for Record. (2) Memo for Record, Colonel Ashley, 8 Dec 61 as revised on 26 Dec 61, sub: Project 80 Presentation to Chiefs of Technical Services. Both in DARPO Briefing files. (3) Memo, General Kjellstrom for Hewes, 21 Sep 71.
 
16 (1) Memo for Record, Colonel Ashley, 26 Dec 61, sub: Briefing of General Maxwell D. Taylor, Special Assistant to the President, Concerning Reorganization of the Army, with two inclosures. Kjellstrom Briefing files. (2) From the personal observation of the author, who was then serving in the Transportation Corps, many technical service personnel mistakenly believed abolition of the offices of the chiefs of the technical services still required positive action by Congress under the Army Organization Act of 1950.
 
17 (1) Interviews, Blumenson with Colonel McGregor, 1 Mar and 10 Sep 62. (2) Public Information and Congressional Briefings Folders, DARPO Pre-planning files. (3) Summary of Major Events and Problems, OCA, 1 Jul 61-30 Jun 62, p. 34.
 
18 Ibid., DARPO Weekly Activities Report to ODOM, 4 and 12 Jan 62.
 
19 (1) DARPO Weekly Activities Reports for 28 Dec 61, 4, 12, and 26 Jan 62, and 9 and 21 Feb 62. (2) DARPO Congressional Briefing file.
 
20 (1) Copy of Ltr, Secretary McNamara to Congressman James G. O'Hara and others, 24 Feb 62. DARPO Congressional Inquiry file. (2) Memo, Secretary of Army for Secretary of Defense, 21 Mar 62, sub: Organization of Subordinate Structure of Materiel Development and Logistics Command; Memo, Secretary McNamara for Secretary of Army, 28 Mar 62, same subject. In DARPO MDLC file.
 
21 For administrative purposes the effective time of the reorganization within the Army was made retroactive to 2400, 16 February 1962. DARPO Weekly Activities Report, 21 Feb 62.
 
22 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 83-84. (2) General Traub's Remarks on Reorganization of ODOMS, c. Nov 61. In DARPO Organization file.
 
23 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 61-63, 81-89. (2) DARPO Administrative and Personnel file.
 
24 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 84-93. (2) Army General Staff Council Minutes, 15 May 62, for General Vittrup's remarks and General Decker's reaction. (3) Memo, Hq, DA, Planning Group, for General Traub, 15 May 62, sub: Establishment of Preliminary Ceilings for Army Staff Agencies for Implementation of Project 80 Reorganization. DARPO Chronological Stayback file, No. 110.
 
25 (1) Zuckert, "The Service Secretary," p. 465. (2) Interview, John Raymond with Mr. Stahr, c. Jul 62. Cited in John Raymond, Power at the Pentagon (New York: Harper and Row, 1964) , p. 298. (3) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 98-102.
 
26 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 98-102. (2) DARPO 10-1, 19 Mar 63. (3) AMC Annual Historical Summary, Fiscal Year 1963, pp. 25-26, 41-50. (4) DARPO Planning Council Meeting No. 6, 2 Apr 62, MDLC Agenda Items for DARPO Planning Council Meeting on 9 April 1962, attached to Minutes of Planning Council Meeting No. 7, 9 Apr 62. (5) DARPO Early Activation of MDLC file.
 
27 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 103-04. (2) AMC Historical Summary, pp. 50-78. (3) Department of the Army General Order 23, 4 May 62, activating AMC on 8 May. (4) AMC General Order 4, 23 May 62, activating AMC commands. (5) Department of the Army General Order 27, 17 Mar 62, activating CDC on 20 Jun. (6) Department of the Army General Order 34, 19 Jun 62, activating OPO on 1 Jul. (7) TAGO Ltr, 13 Jun 62, on assumption of responsibilities by these new commands, and CONARC on I Jul and 1 Aug 62. (8) Department of the Army General Order 46, 25 Jul 62, transferring over 250 installations and activities in place from the technical services on 1 Aug 62.
 
28 (I) Blumenson, Project 80 History, p. 112. (2) Notes on Special DARPO Planning Council Meeting, 13 Apr 62.
 
29 (1) Summary of DARPO Planning Council Meeting No. 15, 25 May 62. (2) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 110-12. (3) General Traub's Remarks at General Staff Council Meeting, 15 May 62.
 
30 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 110-12. (2) Minutes of General Staff Council Meeting, 15 May 62. (3) DARPO Biweekly Progress Report to Mr. Horwitz, 22 Jun 62.
 
31 Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 106-07. 
 
32 Ibid., pp. 107-08. 
 
33 (1) Memo, General Eddleman for Comptroller of the Army, 22 Mar 62, sub: Location of Civilian Personnel Offices for Headquarters, Department of the Army, Upon Reorganization, attached to Minutes of DARPO Planning Council Meeting No. 6, 26 Mar 62. (2) Minutes of DARPO Planning Council Meeting No. 14, 23 May 62. DARPO OPO file.
 
34 (1) BOM, OCSA CS 320 (23 Mar 62) to General Decker and General Hamlett from SGS, dated 10 Apr 62, sub: Army Reorganization, and attached SS from OCMH, dated 23 Mar 62, drafted by Col. Louis G. Mendez, Jr., Chief, Histories Division, OCMH, approved by VC/S, U.S. Army, 11 Apr 62, with inclosures detailing reasons for retaining OCMH as a special staff agency. OCMH files. (2) Blumenson, Project 80 History, p. 97. (3) DARPO Biweekly Progress Report to Mr. Horwitz, 14 Sep 62.
 
35 (1) Memo, Mr. Horwitz for Secretary of the Army and others, 11 Jul 62, sub: Project 39a. (2) Memo, General Oberbeck for Chief of Engineers and others, 16 Jul 62, sub: Defense Project 39a, Study of Headquarters Staffs. (3) Memo, General Oberbeck for General Decker and General Hamlett, 21 Sep 62, sub: Submission of Project 39a. Located in Project 39a files, SMD, OCS.
 
36 Memo, SGS for General Wheeler, 31 Dec 63, sub: Objective 8 assigned personally by Secretary Vance. Located in Objective 8 files, SMD, OCS, OCMH files.
 
37 (1) Status Report, 31 Dec 63, sub: Army CY 63 Objective 8-Further Improvement in the Quality of Staff Work within the Army Headquarters. Attached to Memo, SGS for General Wheeler, 31 Dec 63. (2) Hq., DA, Memo 10-7, 20 Nov 62, sub: Organization and Functions-Organization Relationships, Headquarters, Department of the Army. This memorandum was drafted at the personal request of Mr. Vance as a statement of his philosophy concerning the relationship between the Army staff and the Office of the Secretary of the Army. Project 39a files, OCMH.
 
38 (1) Blumenson, Project 80 History, pp. 114-17. (2) MRP Briefing on Army Reorganization, 2 Apr 63. Located in DARPO Briefing files. (3) See Chapter XI, below.

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