On this day in U.S. Army SF history......24 January 1964 – Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) formed, Saigon.
MACV headquarters issued General Order 6, creating a highly secret new organization to execute clandestine operations. It was euphemistically called MACV’s “Studies and Observation Group,” known as MACVSOG or simply SOG. The operations were approved by President Lyndon Johnson three years after President Kennedy had called for a serious program of covert actions against North Vietnam. The plan, recommended by Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk, contained a total of 72 categories of action.
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